Senior Software Development Engineer - Frontend (GenAI Platform)

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 the team 

We are looking for a Frontend heavy Senior Software Development Engineer to maintain momentum on key initiatives and ensure continued technical leadership across our GenAI Platform backend services, mentor junior engineers, and drive high-quality implementation across several complex backend services. This role is critical to supporting the design and implementation of scalable systems, particularly as we expand core Agentic platform capabilities and onboard use cases to improve employee productivity in Expedia Group. A Senior engineer will provide architectural guidance, unblock the team on complex issues, and help maintain high code quality while accelerating delivery timelines. 

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:  

• Lead & design for complex systems and UI features 

• Partner with UX designers and Engineering Manager to identify and develop solutions for Experience and UX interactions 

• Partner with Product and Tech to identify and collect data to drive user research 

• Design and implement modular and scalable UI components, that can be shared across pages easily 

• Research and recommend frameworks and architectural/code design patterns. 

• Share domain and industry knowledge between own and cross-functional teams 

• Extend outside of direct organization and collaborate with peers across senior level organization 

 

Experience and Qualifications: 

• 8+ years of experience building and developing distributed and complex software 

• Drove technical design from end to end of at least 3 projects 

• Strong foundational knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and performance optimization 

• 5+ years of expertise with modern front-end technologies (React, JavaScript, TypeScript) 

• 3+ years in Python, Java or Kotlin 

• Experience integrating with scalable back-end services (e.g., REST / GraphQL) 

• Experience mentoring developers to advance their skills and foster a collaborative team environment 
   

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Demonstrates strength in multiple technologies or programming languages 

• Gen AI experience is highly desired 

• Experience in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and CI/CD processes 

• Full stack engineering experience is highly preferred  

The total cash range for this position in Austin is $173,000.00 to $242,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $277,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.

Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.

Accommodation requests

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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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