If you need assistance during the recruiting process due to a disability, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the Accommodation Request form. This form is used only by individuals with disabilities who require assistance or adjustments in applying and interviewing for a job. This form is not for inquiring about a position or the status of an application.

Senior Software Development Engineer

Expedia Group leverages platform and technology capabilities across an extensive portfolio of businesses and brands to orchestrate the movement of people and the delivery of travel experiences on both a local and global basis.

We are hiring across brands

• Brand Expedia

• Hotels.com

• Vrbo

• Orbitz

• Hotwire

• Expedia Cruises

& teams

• Expedia Global Payments

• Checkout Platform

• Platform Architecture

• Data, Platform and Infrastructure

• People Technology

• Conversation Platform and Customer Engagement

Over the last year, Expedia group shifted to a platform operating model with more centralized technology, product, data engineering, and data science teams, building services and capabilities that are leveraged across our business units to serve our end customers and provide value-add services to our travel suppliers.

Position Overview:

Are you a motivated technologist who can balance technical depth and interpersonal skills while working with partner teams to develop platform solutions? If so, we are hiring a Sr. Software Engineer for our various teams, you'll be working in highly collaborative, fast-paced, high energy environment. Our team runs Expedia’s mission critical applications, your mission will be to ensure Expedia's experience is always fast, available, scalable and engineered to withstand unparalleled demand.

The Sr. Software Engineer will take a lead role in expanding Expedia Group’s capabilities and developing the next-generation customer facing systems which processes millions of bookings every week from customers across the globe. You will own the technical solution design, while developing with a team of engineers, product managers, and architects building features for an in-house large-scale system and work with business and product partners to drive the road map and strategy for the group in this area.

What you’ll do:

• Develop scalable, highly available, and reliable systems with high throughput in the tens of thousands of requests per second with low latency.

• Deliver solutions ensuring security standards and methodologies, ease of use as platform services, ease of integration, adoption and maintainability. All of these solutions will be designed for and built in the cloud.

• Interact with Technical Leaders across the organization to evangelize the work of the team and bring in emerging ideas.

• Systems design and be able to present to technical and non-technical audiences

• Propose and implement the right practices, standards, policies and rules across different functional areas of the company

• You will lead the continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) while utilizing Agile methodologies.

• Develop new capabilities for the Checkout solutions that will enable new features and improve experiences

• Seek to innovate, move quickly into exciting new technology opportunities

• Work with brand partners on a scalable integration patterns to access our core systems

• Work with Product and Architects to build roadmap and project plans for technology teams to deliver on.

• Produce documentation & status updates to keep partners & team members abreast of solutions, and proposed architecture.

• Report on the status of difficult or high-level projects to local tech leadership via written or oral means. Ensure documentation is complete.

• Competencies: Backend / Fullstack experience

Who are you:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with ability to work well with in and across the teams.

• Excellent skills at encouraging working relationships and driving team-work.

• Solid attention to detail, problem solving and analytical skills.

• High degree of proficiency with learning new technologies and provide solutions for business, technology architecture, and compliance.

• Experienced with capturing business requirements, removing ambiguity and working with the team to build clear plans, project artifacts such as user stories with attention to detail and crisp acceptance criteria.

• Experience in working with Senior leadership across multiple product and engineering areas

• Experience on developing high availability and reliable products with alert and monitoring systems.

• Exposure to delivering products using cloud infrastructure.

• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience

• Strong experience in Java and/or Kotlin programming languages

• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Spring Boot, and Kubernetes

• You enjoy guiding and learning from your co-workers

• Strong bias-to-action, problem solving & organizational skills

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™.  

© 2021 Expedia, Inc. All rights reserved. Trademarks and logos are the property of their respective owners. CST: 2029030-50

Employment opportunities and job offers at Expedia Group will always come from Expedia Group’s Talent Acquisition and hiring teams. Never provide sensitive, personal information to someone unless you’re confident who the recipient is. Expedia Group does not extend job offers via email or any other messaging tools to individuals to whom we have not made prior contact. Our email domain is @expediagroup.com. The official website to find and apply for job openings at Expedia Group is careers.expediagroup.com/jobs.