Software Development Engineer II

Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.

Why Join Us?

To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.

We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a flexible work model (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.

Expedia Group is a world leader in travel and technology, aiming to bring the world within reach for travellers and partners around the globe. Our expansive brand portfolio includes some of the most trusted names in travel, and our innovative technologies ensure that we always stay ahead of the curve.

Price is a key factor influencing traveler’s path to driving a choice leading to a purchase. In a world of infinite paths to purchase, travelers make multiple searches and find the ‘best trip’ and ‘best deal’. The Offers Domain team is tasked with giving the customer a simple, clear, accurate, transparent pricing throughout their shopping and booking journeys. We do this by putting the customer first, creating capabilities that can be shared and presented to the customer that meet the travelers’ expectations in locally relevant ways and adhere to regulatory norms. This is a great opportunity for you to play a pivotal role in shaping our technical domain with the goal of powering all Expedia Group’s brands and product lines.

In this role, you will:

• Collaborate with team members to co-develop and solve problems.
• Seek knowledge from subject matter experts when needed.
• Implement product features working as part of a multi-functional team and run what you build approach.
• Work in an agile team.
• Understand the importance of system and technology integration and the basic features and facilities involved in the integration process.
• Apply software design principles, data structures and/or design patterns and computer science fundamentals to write code that is clean, maintainable, optimized, modular with good naming conventions.
• Help coordinate stakeholder input and collaboration efforts when developing solutions to issues.
• Report clearly on current work status. You ask challenging questions when empowered to do so.

Experience and qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Masters degree in a Technical field; or equivalent related professional experience. Equivalent experience includes:
  • Developing software in a team environment of at least 5 engineers delivering in an agile environment (version control, DevOps culture, CI/CD, etc.)
  • Building and maintaining a software project/product in production environments in public/hybrid cloud infrastructure.
• Fluent Object-Oriented Programming concepts, data structure, algorithms, preferably in Kotlin/Java.
• Experience with cloud technology implementations preferably AWS
• Experience with container technologies (Kubernetes) and CI/CD
  tools/processes.
• Experience with JVM stack i.e. Java, Scala, Kotlin
• Very passionate about learning, especially in the areas of technology, service design patterns and system architecture.
• Understanding of how projects fit together within your team.
• Able to understand moderately complex systems.
• Understanding of testing and monitoring tools.
• Understanding of how teams’ goals fit a business need.

On-Call Requirement: This position requires the employee to be on-call outside of regular working hours. On-call duties encompass:  

• Responding to emergencies or incidents as they arise  
• Providing prompt support and solutions  
• Participating in on-call rotations, including nights, weekends, and bank holidays  
• Remaining reachable by phone or other communication methods at all times during on-call periods  

Accommodation requests

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We are proud to be named as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2024 and be recognized for award-winning culture by organizations like Forbes, TIME, Disability:IN, and others.

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