Software Development Engineer III (Backend)

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 global hybrid work setup (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 

Our Expedia Product & Technology division builds innovative products, services, and tools to deliver high-quality experiences for travelers, partners, and our employees. A unified, singular technology platform powered by data and machine learning provides secure, differentiated, and personalized experiences for the traveler and our partners that drive loyalty and customer satisfaction. 

An established performer who consistently applies software engineering principles to business contexts, leads small, well-defined projects 
and continues as a supporting player on complex projects, and actively identifies inefficiencies in existing systems.

In this role, you will: 

• Work on cutting edge technology for the providing world class developer experience, including exposure to open source tech.

• Design and implement high performance, scalable, robust and reliable server applications that support key Expedia initiatives.

• Translate functional specifications into logical, component-based technical designs.

• Prototype creative solutions quickly by developing minimum viable products and work with others in crafting and implementing the technical vision.

• Provide code reviews to assess overcall code quality and flexibility, and the application of good object-oriented programming techniques.

• Write automated unit, system and acceptance tests as appropriate to support our continuous integration pipelines.

• Work on improving Developer Experience and Productivity by solving complex problems, enhance existing features on Backstage

• Build automation workflows, add new ChatOps commands via Stackstorm, Improve developer productivity via LinearB

• Proactively reaches out to meet peers across environment and collaborates to solve problems

• Takes advantage of opportunities to build new technical expertise in a specific engineering area

• Applies software design principles, data structures and/or design patterns and computer science fundamentals to write code that is clean, maintainable, optimized, modular with good naming conventions

• Applies knowledge of database design to solve data requirements

• Helps coordinate stakeholder input and collaboration efforts when developing solutions to issues•

• Thinks broadly and understand how, why and when policies/processes are standardized and when they differ across the organization

• Completes tasks and/or provides data to support implementation of holistic solutions that forge linkages between structure, people, process and technology

• Asks challenging questions when empowered to do so

• Mentor junior members of the engineering team and raise the bar by contributing to continuously improving engineering practices and development standards.

Experience and qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering or related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience

•  5+ years of experience in a Software Development Engineer or similar role

•  Full stack engineering with expert level experience in Java, Kotlin or an equivalent language

• Experience working with front end technologies such as ReactJS, NodeJS, AngularJS or an equivalent language

• Experience working with GraphQL or an equivalent strongly typed language

• Experience working on K8s, AWS cloud services

• Demonstrated understanding of automation frameworks - Python, Ansible, Cypress or an equivalent technology

•  Strong knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming, Data Structures, and Algorithms 

• Strong understanding of memory leaks, cpu utilisation

• Experience on monitoring tools such as Splunk , Datadog

• Experience leading cross-functional large-scale projects

• Mentored and developed other software engineers

• Effective verbal and written communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information clearly and concisely

• Solid understanding of the software development life cycle, architecture and design, software craftsmanship and test strategies
  
   

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.

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™. © 2024 Expedia, Inc. All rights reserved. Trademarks and logos are the property of their respective owners. CST: 2029030-50 

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Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.