Software Development Engineer III (Full-stack Backend heavy)

Introduction to team

Expedia Product & Technology builds innovative products, services, and tools to deliver high-quality experiences for travelers, partners, and our employees. A 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.
We, in the Expedia Group’s Strategic Partnerships and Affiliates Team, are building the next-generation, scalable B2B partnership platform that will power hundreds of thousands of demand partners across the industry ranging from big businesses to small bloggers and micro influencers in helping them recommend Expedia Group brands to their audiences and in the process grow their businesses. We aim to redefine the travel partnerships sector by building innovative partner tools and solutions that incorporates the new ways in which today’s travelers discover and shop travel products.

In this role, your expertise and passion for innovation, developing cutting-edge technology and implementing industry-leading solutions, will improve the experience of millions of travelers and travel partners each year. You will work with a geo-distributed, cross functional team of 20+ engineers designing and developing solutions for complex problems with a wide-reaching business impact.

What you'll do:

• Design, develop, debug, and modify web services for Insurance micro-services

• You will write code that is clean, maintainable, optimized, modular with good naming conventions. You will also use software frameworks to write simpler code

• Lead the end-to-end product life cycle from mid to large size projects: Design, development, testing, deployment, and providing operational excellence and support

• You contribute to advancing the team's design methodology and quality programming practices and mentor junior team members to adapt standard methodologies

• You will spot areas of inefficiency in code or systems operation and offer suggestions for improvements

• You will team up with peers across the organization to build an understanding of cross dependencies and shared problem-solving

• You will assist with a whole systems approach to analyzing issues by ensuring all components (structure, people, process, and technology) are identified and accounted for

Minimum Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in software development, especially in a highly complex, platform/multi-service/multi-application environment. Also owning the operation of such an environment

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or in a related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience

• Excellent coding skills in Java and proficiency with HTML, XML, and JSON. Nice to have, familiarity with ReactJS

• Ability to comfortably work in a fast-paced, often ambiguous, and multi-matrix environment

• Ability to proactively identify upcoming risks, issues, and bottlenecks and resolve issues that sometimes cross departmental boundaries

• Ability to estimate, schedule, and manage/track multiple concurrent projects

• Strong oral and written communication skills. Excellent time management, resource management, and planning skills

• Experience working with Rest APIs and familiarity with the development of services using Spring Boot on Cloud (e.g. AWS)

Preferred Qualifications

• Good understanding of front end architecture.

• Experience working around Apache Tomcat, Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Docker, Gradle

• Experience using code versioning tools for e.g. Git

• Experience working with streaming applications preferable with Kafka