Software Development Engineer

Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.

Why Join Us?

To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.

We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a flexible work model (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.

Introduction to team :

The Lodging Connectivity Organization at Expedia Group is seeking an experienced backend developer and a seasoned technologist with a passion for building robust, scalable, and high-performance applications that help millions of people plan their travels and create lifelong memories. Join us as we revolutionize the travel industry!

The Lodging Connectivity Organization at Expedia Group is at the forefront of innovation in the travel industry. We leverage our cutting-edge, in-house platform to seamlessly integrate with lodging partners worldwide, delivering exceptional travel experiences to millions of users annually. Through APIs, we enable travelers to access top-tier content, enjoy an immersive hotel shopping experience, and add convenient ancillaries to their journeys with ease.

We are part of the partner connectivity platform that serves as the backbone of Expedia’s business, powering an efficient two-way marketplace that bridges supply and demand. Leveraging diverse API integration that sources our platform with over 1M properties and generates more than 1M transactions per minute. Built with modern technologies like Java, Kotlin, Spring, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch or Redis, our ecosystem supports millions of travelers in finding the best travel products tailored to their needs.

If you’re passionate about creating transformative solutions, tackling large-scale engineering challenges, and shaping the future of travel, we’d love to have you on our team. Join us, and let’s redefine the way the world travels together!

In this role, you will:

• Lead design and implement products and solutions that are highly scalable with high-quality, clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.

• Find opportunities for process and technology improvements, and work towards adoption and implementation.

• Assist with supporting Production systems (includes investigating issues and working towards resolution)

• Exercise creativity and provide alternative solutions to a given problem removing roadblocks and driving issues to closure

• Create/update documentation for the purpose of sharing knowledge between team members

• Actively participate in group technology reviews to critique the work of self and others

• Participate and formulate user story creation in partnership with the team, product managers.

• Closely collaborate with Senior and Principal Developers, as well as the Product Manager, to find effective solutions to problems.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master’s in a related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience

• 5+ years of software development experience with a Bachelor's degree or 3+ years with a Master’s degree

• Experience in an object-oriented language (e.g., Java, Kotlin) and designing REST APIs

• Ability to design and build moderately complex, well-defined software systems

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with cloud-computing platforms (e.g., Amazon Web Services)

• Experience with both relational and non-relational data stores

• Understanding of CI/CD methodologies, source control with Git, and monitoring/logging tools (e.g., Splunk, Datadog)

• Experience working in an agile team environment, conducting peer reviews, and mentoring junior engineers

• Experience maintaining projects in production environments, including bug fixing and troubleshooting

Accommodation requests

If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, or other physical or mental health conditions, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the Accommodation Request.

We are proud to be named as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2024 and be recognized for award-winning culture by organizations like Forbes, TIME, Disability:IN, and others.

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