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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.\nOur Technology Team partners with teams across Expedia Group to create 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 that drive loyalty and traveler satisfaction.\nIntroduction to the Team\nExpedia Group is revolutionizing the way people search for and book travel. As part of Product & Technology, the Distribution and Supply Tech - Inventory team builds the platform that ingests, stores, and distributes lodging rates and availability data across all Expedia Group brands. Using cloud technologies and modern engineering practices, we power travel shopping and booking experiences on a global scale.\nIn this role, you will:\nDesign, build, test, and deliver reliable software solutions across services and domains, applying strong coding fundamentals, low-level design, API design, and data modeling practices.\n\nOwn technical execution for complex components and services, translating business and product needs into scalable, maintainable engineering outcomes.\n\nContribute to system design and architecture decisions, balancing performance, availability, security, and operational excellence in production environments.\n\nTroubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues, improve service health through monitoring and automation, and drive continuous improvements in quality, resilience, and developer efficiency.\n\nCollaborate effectively with engineers and cross-functional partners to deliver end-to-end solutions, sharing technical knowledge and contributing across multiple technology areas as needed.\n\nSafely 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.\n\nMinimum Qualifications:\nBachelor’s degree in a related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience.\n\n5+ years of software development experience building and supporting production systems.\n\nDemonstrated ownership of design, development, and operation of services or multiple components within a domain, with accountability for code quality, testing, and operational reliability.\n\nStrong technical foundation in software engineering, including object-oriented or modern programming languages, low-level system design, API design, data modeling, and debugging distributed systems.\n\nExperience working in cloud-based and service-oriented environments with version control, CI/CD practices, monitoring, and secure engineering fundamentals.\n\nExperience in JVM technologies, specifically Kotlin and functional programming.\n\nExperience with SQL (Aurora) and NoSQL databases (DynamoDB, MongoDB, DocumentDB)\n\nPreferred Qualifications:\nExperience leading technical delivery for complex initiatives, influencing design decisions, and improving engineering practices within a team or domain.\n\nDemonstrated success building scalable, high-availability systems and driving operational excellence through observability, automation, and performance optimization.\n\nStrong judgment using data and metrics to identify issues, prioritize improvements, and inform technical decisions.\n\nExperience contributing across the full stack or multiple technical domains, adapting quickly to new technologies and business problem spaces.\n\nExperience evaluating or implementing AI/ML-enabled capabilities in software products, and using AI-driven development tools or workflows to improve engineering outcomes.\n\nExperience working effectively in decentralized or geographically distributed teams.\n\nThe total cash range for this position in Seattle is $146,000.00 to $204,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $233,500.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.\nStarting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.\nBenefits and perks\nExpedia Group offers benefits and perks designed to support employees and their families, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, an Employee Assistance Program, wellness and travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IATAN) membership. Learn more about life at Expedia Group at https://careers.expediagroup.com/life.\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. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. This employer participates in E-Verify. 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