User Experience Engineer-III

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.

Role Summary
A high-performing and influential individual contributor who leads by example while continuing to mentor junior engineers. Interfaces consistently with tech leadership in the local organization, leads complex and vaguely-defined projects and stretches into team leadership skills based on current projects.

In this role, you will:

• Collaborate across disciplines—partnering with front-end, backend, and SREs—to shape the architecture and elevate the technical foundation of a large-scale UI applications serving millions of users. Focus on code quality and overall platform improvement for this customer-critical system

• Quality and Performance Champion: Establish and enforce engineering best practices for testing, CI/CD, and observability. Proactively address system bottlenecks, technical debt, and performance issues while improving UI stability and test coverage

• Observability and Reliability: Implement tracing, monitoring, and alerting systems to ensure application uptime, facilitate issue diagnosis, and drive performance improvements through data-driven analysis and solutions

• Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner with diverse shopping teams and AWS specialists across multiple time zones to design cost-efficient infrastructure and optimize resources, ensuring seamless integration of global e-commerce solutions

• Testing: Design and execute test plans—including advanced functional, performance, and security testing—to ensure high code quality

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience

• 5+ years of software development experience (3+ for Master's) building scalable, robust, and fault-tolerant solutions with a specialization in front-end software development

• Proficient in modern CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, and frameworks such as ReactJS. GraphQL, Kotlin

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with mobile-first Progressive Web Apps (PWA)

• Experience with GraphQL or building high-efficiency services

• Comfortable using Git or similar version control systems

• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS Experience working in a CI/CD environment

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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