Senior Software Development Engineer

About the job

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Senior Software Development Engineer

Are you passionate about the world of travel and technology? Do you like the idea of having an impact on how people search, plan, and book their trips? Stay tuned! We have a phenomenal opportunity for you!

Expedia Media Solutions Engineering is dedicated to building innovative solutions for travel advertisers enabling them to use Expedia's network of leading travel brands and global sites. We have revolutionized the way brands reach and connect with online travel consumers, emerging as a leader in online advertising sales among travel and e-commerce brands. With a growing product portfolio offering a multitude of advertising and sponsorship opportunities, our Media Solutions team at Expedia has created a viable marketing platform for advertising partners to reach the 112 million worldwide monthly unique visitors that visit Expedia Group sites.

Our team culture is founded on creativity and success, but it is mainly focused on collaboration. If you want to work with seasoned professionals from all over the world who share similar ideas while enjoying the benefits of traveling regularly (for business or pleasure), our team is sure to suit you.

Developing great software is important to us, and we know that continuous integration and day-to-day release for production require the work of experienced software development engineers. At Expedia, every day we can develop web applications that millions of travellers use to plan, book, and take unforgettable trips.

What You'll Do

• Extends outside of direct organization and collaborates with peers across a senior-level organization
• Leads a community of practice and brings people together for shared learning
• Partners with the business to have a clear understanding of how the technology stack is tied to business outcomes and our bottom line.
• Conducts successful day-to-day work and solves complex issues in own specific technical engineering area
• Share domain and Industry knowledge between cross-functional teams
• Serves as a guide to others by sharing and helping junior associates in their duties
• Is known to fill in for peer engineering management as the need arises
• Possesses knowledge of features and facilities for integration, and communication among applications, databases, and technology platforms to bring together different components and form a fully functional solution to a business problem
• Tests and maintains software applications and related programs and procedures by using various software development tools following the customer's design requirements.
• Acts as a spokesperson for software design best practices.
• Researches and recommends frameworks and architectural/code design patterns
• Identifies areas of improvement within the code and suggests solutions
• Advocates for operational excellence (such as unit testing, establishing SLAs, programming for resiliency and scalability)
• Advises on technical software design limitations for products and provides alternative solutions
• Facilitates collaboration with different stakeholders with varied perspectives to develop effective solutions to issues.
• Strives for optimum organizational efficiency by applying systems thinking across boundaries and making recommendations about policies/ processes
• Takes a whole systems approach to analyze issues and implements holistic solutions by ensuring that linkages between structure, people, process, and technology are made
• Identifies outmoded methods of operation with current systems and design plans for disrupting them in a non-disruptive manner
• Reports on the status of difficult or high-level projects to local tech leadership via written or oral means. Ensures documentation is complete
  
  

Who You Are

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a related Technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience
• At least 8+ years experience for a Bachelor's and 6+ years for a Master's degree
• Experience working in at least in 2 multi-quarter projects as a part of a decentralized team and project
• Experience formally mentoring at least 3 individuals and driving technical design end to end for at least 3 projects
• Experience contributing to the engineering community through blog posts, open-source contributions, tech talks, etc.
• Ability to identify business problems at the project level and team level and design solutions that are easily testable and
  
  

observable

• Strong understanding of how team goals fit a business need
• Strong in multiple technologies or languages and is an expert in a given domain
• Able to justify technology choices to technical and non-technical observers making well-defined technology choices
• Creation of team project systems
• Guiding integrations across teams within business units
• Able to understand highly complex systems and design moderately complex systems
• Ability to identify and advocate for project quality via testing, monitoring, and alerting at the project level
• Ability to establish operational excellence metrics at the team level
• Identifies and advocates for project quality via testing, monitoring, and alerting at the project level
• Has a strong understanding of testing and monitoring tools and technologies
• Establishes operational excellence metrics at the team level
• Guides others in the design of software that is easily testable and observable
• Experience working in Advertising domain is preferred.
  
  

About Expedia Group

Expedia Group (NASDAQ: EXPE) powers travel for everyone, everywhere through our global platform. Driven by the core belief that travel is a force for good, we help people experience the world in new ways and build lasting connections. We provide industry-leading technology solutions to fuel partner growth and success, while facilitating memorable experiences for travelers. Expedia Group's family of brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Vrbo®, trivago®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Hotwire®, Wotif®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Expedia Group™ Media Solutions, Expedia Local Expert®, CarRentals.com™, and Expedia Cruises™.

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