Senior Software Developer

At Expedia Group, we help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time. As a global travel company powered by passionate people, trusted partnerships, and leading technology, we connect travelers, partners, and advertisers through our consumer brands, B2B network, and travel advertising business.

Here, you'll do meaningful work that helps millions of people discover, book, and experience travel with more ease, confidence, and joy. Our five Behaviors-Traveler First, Think Big, Operate with Excellence, Ownership Mindset, and Succeed Together-help foster a supportive environment where people can grow their careers and have the flexibility, benefits, and support to do their best work. Join us and build for travelers everywhere.

Introduction to team :

The Air Supply Organization at Expedia Group is seeking an experienced backend developer and a seasoned technologist with a passion for building robust, scalable, and high-performance applications that help millions of people plan their travels and create lifelong memories. Join us as we revolutionize the travel industry!

The Air Supply Organization at Expedia Group is at the forefront of innovation in the travel industry. We leverage our cutting-edge, in-house platform to seamlessly integrate with airlines worldwide, delivering exceptional travel experiences to millions of users annually. Through APIs that adhere to NDC standards, we enable travelers to access top-tier content, enjoy an immersive ticket shopping experience, and add convenient ancillaries to their journeys with ease.

We are part of the partner connectivity platform that serves as the backbone of Expedia’s business, powering an efficient two-way marketplace that bridges supply and demand. Leveraging diverse integration methods-ranging from direct connections to NDC and GDS sourcing-our platform processes over 50 Tier-1 services and generates more than 8TB of data each month. Built with modern technologies like Java, Kotlin, Spring, MSSQL, DynamoDB, and Redis, our ecosystem supports millions of travelers in finding the best travel products tailored to their needs.

What Sets Us Apart:

• Global Scale: We operate a platform that impacts millions of users worldwide, making air travel more accessible, seamless, and personalized.

• Innovation-Driven: We thrive on solving complex challenges, continuously improving our technology stack, and staying ahead in the fast-paced travel industry.

• Collaborative Culture: Our geographically distributed team is empowered to drive high-priority initiatives independently while fostering a culture of collaboration, inclusivity, and shared success.

If you’re passionate about creating transformative solutions, tackling large-scale engineering challenges, and shaping the future of air travel, we’d love to have you on our team. Join us, and let’s redefine the way the world travels together!

In this role, you will:

• Design, build, and maintain complex, highly available services and applications, including robust system design (low-level design), API design, and data modeling across multiple domains.
• Lead end-to-end delivery of features and services, from technical design and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and ongoing optimization in production environments.
• Improve technical quality and operational excellence by driving code quality standards, reducing incidents, enhancing observability, and optimizing performance and reliability.
• Mentor and guide other engineers, sharing best practices in software engineering, testing, and architecture, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and learning.
• Collaborate with product, design, data, and other engineering teams to translate business and customer problems into scalable technical solutions that can be reused across domains.
• Safely integrate and operate AI/ML-enabled solutions that improve outcomes, including familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real world products.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience.
• 8+ years of professional backend software development experience in an object-oriented language (e.g., Java, Kotlin, or similar)
• Proven experience owning end-to-end delivery for services or components, including design, implementation, testing, deployment, and support within a multi-service or domain environment.
• Strong proficiency in at least one modern programming language and core software engineering practices, including object-oriented design, data structures, algorithms, testing, and version control.
• Hands-on experience designing and consuming APIs, working with data models and storage systems, and applying system design principles to build reliable and maintainable systems.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience designing and evolving service and application architectures for high-traffic, distributed systems, including clear API contracts, data models, and low-level designs.
• Demonstrated track record driving technical direction for services or domains, making data-informed tradeoffs on scalability, reliability, performance, and cost.
• Strong focus on operational excellence, including monitoring, alerting, incident response, and continuous improvement of production systems and developer workflows.
• Familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real world products, including safely integrating AI/ML-enabled features into existing services.
• Experience leading cross-team technical initiatives or migrations, influencing engineering best practices across a domain, and mentoring others to grow their technical depth and delivery capability, including guiding teams on effective and responsible use of AI-assisted development and testing tools

Accommodation requests

Expedia Group is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience. If you need an accommodation or adjustment due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please submit a request athttps://expedia.service-now.com/askeg?id=job_accommodation.

About Expedia Group

Expedia Group includes three flagship consumer brands - Expedia, Hotels.com, and Vrbo - along with a leading B2B travel business and travel advertising offerings. Across our brands and business, we help travelers explore the world with confidence and ease.

Important notice

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