Senior Software Development Engineer
Job details
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
The SPX Content team sits within the Supply Partner Experience organization and focuses on building and evolving the content experiences that power our lodging supply. We own core product features in Partner Central and Vrbo Dash, including property amenities management, photos management, regulatory experiences, and room types and rate plans for both live and onboarding properties. Our mission is to ensure partners can easily create, manage, and optimize high‑quality property content so travelers get accurate, rich information and our supply performs at its best across Expedia Group brands.
You will join a team of talented and creative software engineers, who follow an agile practice. We are based in Shenzhen, but we collaborate with multiple Expedia Group’s teams around the world. Every developer is given a high level of ownership to permit learning and fully own the products.
In this role, you will:
Architect services aggregating domain APIs (caching, resilience, event streaming integration) driving operational efficiencies
Drive migration of prior‑era web-pages (strangler & incremental rollout patterns) with measurable UX, accessibility, and performance improvements
Build React app structure (routing, data flow, error handling) for Escapia features
Design GraphQL schemas with clear service boundaries and data ownership; evolve APIs to support new workflows
Optimize Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP/FID, CLS) & sustainably reduce bundle footprint using profiling & data‑driven decisions
Establish test pyramid (unit, contract, e2e, visual regression) & CI quality gates; codify standards for reliability
Introduce performance & error telemetry (RUM, Sentry, traces, usage analytics) with actionable dashboards and KPIs
Mentor engineers (design critiques, pairing, growth plans) fostering T‑shaped skill development
Influence design system evolution (reusable, themeable component patterns) accelerating feature velocity
Implement secure auth/session flows (OAuth 2.0, token lifecycles, PII handling) and enforce least privilege
Advocate for deletion: retire obsolete code paths & redundant APIs; document rationale for simplification
Align modernization and feature delivery with business outcomes (retention, task completion time, booking conversion, reliability)
Participate on‑call rotation for Escapia services; contribute to incident postmortems & reliability improvements
Minimum Qualifications:
8+ years full‑stack /web services development; 3+ years technical leadership
GraphQL schema & resolver design at scale (federation, batching, caching)
Node.js or Kotlin or Java production API architecture
Delivered multi‑quarter migration/platform initiatives
Excellent technical communication (concise RFCs, data‑backed proposals)
Mentored senior+ & mid‑level engineers
Additional Qualifications:
React Server Components / Streaming SSR (Next.js or custom)
Kotlin coroutines, Spring Boot / Dropwizard
AWS (CloudFront, Lambda, ECS/Fargate, API Gateway, RDS/Aurora, SQS/SNS)
Event‑driven design (Kafka topics, pub/sub, backpressure handling)
Advanced caching (edge/CDN, revalidation, stale‑while‑revalidate)
Experimentation & feature flag governance (LaunchDarkly, internal tools)
Security best practices (OWASP, CSP, dependency risk mgmt)
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.
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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