Software Development Engineer III

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 the 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, 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!

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

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent (5+ years of professional software development experience), or Master's Degree (4+ years post-degree experience)
• Hands-on experience in software development using Java or similar object-oriented programming languages, or Scala or Kotlin or similar functional languages
• Proven experience building and operating scalable distributed systems and services within AWS cloud infrastructure or similar technologies.
• You have experience formally mentoring at least 3 individuals and driving technical design end to end for at least 3 projects
• You have the ability to identify business problems at the project level and team level and design solutions that are easily testable and observable
• Understanding of relational and NoSQL databases, data structures, API patterns, and service-oriented architectures
• You have the ability to establish operational excellence metrics at the team level and identify and advocate for project quality via testing, monitoring, and alerting at the project level
• Strong practical knowledge and experience developing robust caching solutions, utilizing technologies such as Redis or Couchbase or Memcached, or similar distributed caching tools
• Experience working successfully on Agile development teams with a minimum of 5 engineers, understanding modern agile methodologies, version control systems, continuous integration, and continuous delivery practices
• Commitment to technical excellence with excellent communication and interpersonal skills, capable of thriving and collaborating within a globally distributed team environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with low-latency and high-throughput processing (1M+ TPS) microservices.
• Demonstrated proficiency in safely integrating AI/ML-enabled solutions within backend systems and leveraging AI-driven tools or workflows to enhance real-world product outcomes.

Accommodation requests

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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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