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Senior Software Development Engineer

Are you an established technology leader who is passionate about building robust, scalable, and performant applications that will help millions of people plan their travels and create memories for a lifetime? Come join the Expedia Group Connectivity team! We are working on building the next-generation partner connectivity platform to connect with various supply partners and redefine the travel industry. The partner connectivity platform supports millions of users every year in finding suitable travel products using technologies such as Java, Kotlin, Spring, MSSQL, DynamoDB, Redis, etc. We encourage experimentation with new technologies while maintaining a healthy balance between short-term and long-term goals. We deeply care about building a great experience to delight our customers. Our goal is to enhance every traveler's experience and make it better!

What you’ll do:

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

• Lead a community of practice and bring people together for shared learning

• Partner with the business to have a clear understanding of how your own technology stack is tied to business outcomes and our bottom line

• Successfully conduct day-to-day work and solve complex issues in your own specific technical engineering area

• Share domain and industry knowledge between cross-functional teams

• Serve as a guide to others by sharing and helping junior associates in their duties

• Recognize the ability to fill in for peer engineering management as need arises

• 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 the design requirements of the customer

• Act as a spokesperson for software design best practices

• Research and recommend frameworks and architectural/code design patterns

• Identify areas of improvement within the code and suggest solutions

• Advocate for operational excellence (such as unit testing, establishing SLAs, and programming for resiliency and scalability)

• Advise on technical limitations of software design for products and provide alternative solutions

• Facilitate collaboration with different stakeholders with varied perspectives to develop effective solutions to issues

• Strive for optimum organizational efficiency by applying systems thinking across boundaries and making recommendations about policies/ processes

• Take whole systems approach to analyze issues and implement holistic solutions by ensuring that linkages between structure, people, process, and technology are made

• Spot outmoded methods of operation with current systems and design plans for disrupting them in a non-disruptive manner

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

Who you are:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience

• At least 8+ years experience for a Bachelor's and 6+ years for a Master's degree

• Experience working in at least in 2 multi-quarter projects as a part of a decentralized team and project

• Experience formally mentoring at least 3 individuals and driving technical design end to end for at least 3 projects

• Experience contributing to the engineering community through blog posts, open-source contributions, tech talks, etc.

• Ability to identify business problems at the project level and team level and design solutions that are easily testable and observable

• Strong understanding of how team goals fit a business need

• Strong in multiple technologies or languages and is an expert in a given domain

• Able to justify technology choices to technical and non-technical observers making well-defined technology choices

• Creation of team project systems

• Guiding integrations across teams within business units

• Able to understand highly complex systems and design moderately complex systems

• Ability 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

• Identifies and advocates for project quality via testing, monitoring, and alerting at the project level

• Has a strong understanding of testing and monitoring tools and technologies

• Establishes operational excellence metrics at the team level

• Guides others in the design of software that is easily testable and observable

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™.

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