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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.\nHere, 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.\nExpedia Business the B2B arm of Expedia Group. We bring Expedia Group’s innovative technology and distribution solutions to partners across the world, including financial institutions, corporate managed travel companies, offline travel agents, and travel suppliers.\nAs a Software Development Engineer II supporting Forward Deployment Engineering, you will build software solutions that address partner needs and bring Expedia Group’s Travel Platform capabilities to life. You will combine hands-on software development with customer collaboration, solution discovery, prototyping, and technical delivery.\nIn this role, you will:\nDevelop, test, deploy, and maintain software applications and supporting services in public or hybrid cloud environments.\nWork directly with partners, product teams, sales, and engineering teams to understand business needs and translate them into technical solutions.\nBuild prototypes, integrations, APIs, and production-quality software that demonstrate and deliver value.\nApply software design principles, data structures, design patterns, and computer science fundamentals to create clean, maintainable, modular code.\nUse databases, data stores, and API integration patterns to support partner and platform requirements.\nContribute to solutions involving emerging technologies, including AI-powered and intelligent travel experiences.\nTest, monitor, debug, and improve your code using appropriate engineering tools and practices.\nConsider security, resiliency, scalability, observability, and operational requirements when developing solutions.\nCollaborate with stakeholders to coordinate input, resolve issues, and support holistic solutions across people, process, technology, and organisational needs.\nReport clearly on work status, ask thoughtful questions, and identify inefficiencies or opportunities to improve existing systems.\nBuild relationships across Expedia Group, seek expertise from subject matter experts, and contribute to a collaborative engineering culture.\nApply Expedia Group principles to your work: choose fearlessly, include consciously, trust each other, force simplicity, and go get what’s next.\nExperience and Qualifications:\n2+ years of professional software development experience with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field; or 0-2 years of experience with a master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience.\nExperience developing software in a team environment using agile practices and version control.\nExperience building and maintaining software deployed to production in a public or hybrid cloud environment.\nStrong proficiency in at least one programming language and familiarity with additional languages relevant to the role.\nFamiliarity with databases, data stores, API design, and system integration.\nUnderstanding of moderately complex systems and how projects contribute to team and business goals.\nExperience testing, monitoring, troubleshooting, and debugging applications.\nAbility to collaborate effectively with engineers, partners, and stakeholders, including audiences with varying levels of technical knowledge.\nPreferred\nExperience in forward deployment engineering, solution engineering, consulting, or customer-facing software development.\nExperience building proofs of concept, prototypes, or integrations for external partners.\nFamiliarity with large language models, prompt design, AI application development, or AI evaluation.\nExperience with cloud platforms, distributed systems, observability tools, or continuous delivery practices.\nExperience working in travel technology, B2B technology, or platform-based products.\nAccommodation requests\nExpedia 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.\nAbout Expedia Group\nExpedia 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.\nImportant notice\nEmployment opportunities and job offers at Expedia Group will always come from Expedia Group's Talent Acquisition and hiring teams. Never share sensitive personal information unless you are confident of the recipient. Expedia Group does not extend job offers via email or messaging tools to individuals with whom we have not made prior contact. Our email domain is @expediagroup.com. The official place to find and apply for roles is https://careers.expediagroup.com/jobs/.\nEqual Opportunity\nExpedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. 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