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 team 

Expedia revolutionises the way people search and book travel. We make travel smooth and memorable for everyone, and we create success for our travel partners. We are the Distribution and Supply team at Expedia. We own Pricing, Inventory, Reservation and Offers. We delight our Travellers with great prices for any travel (hotel, vacation rental, air, cars, packages and cruises), and support them to reserve and manage their experience. We own the unified technical systems that perform these functions, and handle trillions of events that deliver this value at Expedia’s global scale.

What you’ll do:

• Successfully conduct day-to-day work and solve complex issues in your own specific technical engineering area, will share domain and industry knowledge between cross-functional teams and will serve as a guide to others by sharing and helping junior engineers in their duties, while reporting on status of difficult or high-level projects to local tech leadership via written or oral means.

• Partner with the business to have a clear understanding of how your own technology stack is tied to business outcomes and our bottom line and will advise on technical limitations of software design for products and provide alternative solutions.

• Possess 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.

• Creatively test and maintain software applications and related programs and procedures by using a variety of software development tools following design requirements of customer.

• Take technical responsibility for the health of the codebase, including quality, scalability, and performance and you will act as a spokesperson for software design best practices, research and recommend frameworks and architectural/code design patterns, identify areas of improvements within the code and suggests solutions and advocate for operational excellence (such as unit testing, establishing SLAs, programming for resiliency and scalability).

• Take a whole systems approach to analyze issues and implement holistic solutions by ensuring that linkages between structure, people, process and technology are made and will strive for optimum organizational efficiency by applying systems thinking across boundaries and making recommendations about policies/ processes.

• Lead a community of practice and bring people together for shared learning. Extend outside of direct organization and collaborate with peers across a senior level organization.

Who you are:

• Bachelor’s degree or Master’s in a related technical field; or Experience driving technical design end to end in at least 2 multi-quarter projects as a part of a decentralized team and project and several contributions to engineering community through a blog post, open-source contribution, tech talks etc.

• 8+ years of Software Development work experience (Java or Kotlin experience strongly preferred) with a strong focus on backend development and solid experience working in high performance, high throughput, highly available and scalable services in cloud platforms. Experience formally mentoring at least 3 individuals is also required.

• Ability to identify business problems at the project level and team level, and design solutions that are easily testable and observable, making well defined technology choices and being able to justify them to technical and non-technical observers. Also has a strong understanding of how team goals fit a business need.

• Able to understand highly complex systems and design moderately complex systems and can guide integrations across teams within business unit.

• Has a strong understanding of testing and monitoring tools and technologies and uses this knowledge 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.

• Fluent in English, with strong written and verbal communication skills.

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.

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