Software Development Engineer II

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:

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.

The Expedia Group Pricing pillar is tasked with giving the customer a simple, clear, accurate, transparent pricing experience throughout their shopping and booking journeys. We do this by putting the customer first, creating capabilities and experiences that can be shared and presented to the customer that meet the travelers’ expectations in locally relevant ways and adhere to regulatory norms.

The pricing platform supports millions of users every year in finding suitable travel products using technologies such as Java, Scala, Kotlin, Spring, MSSQL, DynamoDB, Redis, AWS, 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!

Role Impact:

In this role, you will:

• Own mission-critical services end-to-end-from technical design and API contracts through implementation, deployment, and ongoing operations-for high-throughput, low-latency distributed pricing services at global scale.
• Partner with the business to have a clear understanding of how your own technology stack is tied to business outcomes and our bottom line
• Analyze complex problems, deconstruct them into manageable milestones, and collaboratively deliver sustainable technical solutions
• Participate actively in architecture reviews, writing thorough and well-supported technical documentation, and conducting detailed code reviews
• 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
• Research and recommend frameworks and architectural/code design patterns and 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) and strive for optimum organizational efficiency by applying systems thinking across boundaries and making recommendations about policies/ processes
• Mentor team members, sharing knowledge and expertise to foster a culture of continuous technical growth and collaboration across teams

In this role, you will:

Lead design and implement products and solutions that are highly scalable with high-quality, clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.

Find opportunities for process and technology improvements, and work towards adoption and implementation.

Assist with supporting Production systems (includes investigating issues and working towards resolution)

Exercise creativity and provide alternative solutions to a given problem removing roadblocks and driving issues to closure

Create/update documentation for the purpose of sharing knowledge between team members

Actively participate in group technology reviews to critique the work of self and others

Participate and formulate user story creation in partnership with the team, product managers.

Closely collaborate with Senior and Principal Developers, as well as the Product Manager, to find effective solutions to problems.

Minimum Qualifications:

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

2+ years of software development experience with a Bachelor's degree or 1+ years with a Master’s degree

Experience in an object-oriented language (e.g., Java, Kotlin, Scala) and designing, REST/grpc/graphql APIs/MCP servers.

Ability to design and build moderately complex, well-defined software systems

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with cloud-computing platforms (e.g., Amazon Web Services)

Experience with managing tier-0/tier-1 applications

Experience with both relational and non-relational data stores

Understanding of CI/CD methodologies, source control with Git, and monitoring/logging tools (e.g., Splunk, Datadog)

Experience working in an agile team environment, conducting peer reviews, and mentoring junior engineers

Experience maintaining projects in production environments, including bug fixing and troubleshooting

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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Equal Opportunity