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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.\nIntroduction to the Product Team\nThe Product Team creates high-quality end-to-end experiences for travelers, partners, and Expedia Group. Our customer-first mindset focuses on developing products that encourage loyalty and repeat business from our travelers and partners. We partner closely with teams across Expedia Group to achieve growth and results for our customers and company.\nWe connect Travelers to new experiences, through trusted relationships. We use the power of Expedia Group brands to empower strategic partners to nurture and grow the existing relationship with their audience. Strategic Partnerships and Affiliates breadth of solutions which include cashback, travel offers, loyalty exchange, co-branded sites, Affiliate APIs and EG’s Affiliate Program, bring a partners’ audience onto EG sites, thereby increasing EG’s traffic and exposure.\nIntroduction to the Layla Team\nLayla is an AI-native travel-planning and booking company, now part of Expedia Group’s Product organization. Through a conversational travel assistant, Layla helps travelers move from inspiration to a complete, bookable itinerary - flights, hotels, activities, and the day-by-day detail - in minutes. As part of Expedia Group, the team combines Layla’s planning and personalization capabilities with Expedia Group’s global supply, first-party traveler insights, marketplace scale, and booking technology.\nThe team is small and senior by design and operates with startup pace: you own a surface, ship it, and see the impact on real travelers within weeks - with decisions driven by data and AI tooling used in practice every day.\nAs a Senior Frontend Engineer, you will build the web experiences that bring Layla’s conversational trip planning and booking to travelers - turning an AI-native travel assistant into fast, intuitive, and accessible interfaces.\nIn this role, you will:\nBuild reusable, component-based web interfaces with modern frontend frameworks (React / Next.js) that make Layla’s conversational travel planning and booking intuitive, fast, and accessible.\n\nTranslate product concepts, designs, and wireframes into high-quality, maintainable code, partnering closely with Product, Design, and backend engineering to ship features end to end.\n\nDevelop performant, scalable, and reliable web applications, maintaining cross-browser compatibility and resolving performance bottlenecks.\n\nRun experiments and iterate quickly on the traveler experience, using data to guide UI and interaction decisions.\n\nSafely integrate and operate AI/ML-enabled capabilities in the web experience - such as assistant-driven planning, personalization, and recommendations - applying AI/ML concepts to real-world features responsibly.\n\nAdvocate for engineering excellence, usability, accessibility (a11y), and quality, and help drive frontend architecture decisions and reusable patterns.\n\nMentor other engineers through code review, technical design feedback, and knowledge sharing.\n\nMinimum Qualifications:\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience.\n\n8+ years of experience developing production-quality code in a professional software engineering role.\n\nDeep frontend/web development expertise, including JavaScript, React, HTML, and CSS, and experience building reusable, component-based user interfaces.\n\nSolid grounding in computer science fundamentals - data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented programming.\n\nDemonstrated ability to build fast, scalable, and reliable web applications with maintainable, testable frontend architecture.\n\nFamiliarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real-world products, with a focus on safely integrating these capabilities into web features.\n\nPreferred Qualifications:\nExperience with Next.js or similar modern React frameworks, including server-driven or server-rendered UI patterns.\n\nExperience partnering across the stack (for example, Node.js and APIs) to deliver end-to-end features.\n\nExperience building accessible (a11y) and inclusive web interfaces.\n\nExperience running experiments (A/B testing) and using product data to inform frontend decisions.\n\nExperience integrating AI/ML-enabled or generative-AI capabilities into web products, with attention to safety and responsible use.\n\nExperience using AI-assisted development tools (for example, Claude or similar) to improve developer productivity, code quality, and delivery speed.\n\nExperience in e-commerce, marketplace, or travel domains.\n\nDemonstrated ability to drive frontend architectural improvements and to mentor other engineers.\n\nExpedia Group is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to support employees and their families, including medical/dental/vision, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program. To fuel each employee’s passion for travel, we offer a wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and an International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership. View our full list of benefits.\nThe total cash range for this position in Seattle is $184,500.00 to $258,000.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $295,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.\nThe total cash range for this position in Austin is $184,500.00 to $258,000.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $295,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.Starting 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. 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