Principal Software Development Engineer

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.

Principal Software Development Engineer (Back-end)

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.

Introduction to Team

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.

This role is inherently collaborative, involving engagement across various functions to solve problems, learn rapidly, and drive tangible outcomes.

What you'll do:

• Lead by example, advocating for software engineering best practices, engineering excellence, coding standards, and Agile methodologies within teams.
• Deep knowledge of entire system and can jump into code in any component and fire fight and contribute.
• Take architectural ownership for various critical components and systems
• Develop north star vision for domain in which you are focused.
• Combine and share knowledge and skills in more than one functional area to promote
  effectiveness in the department or business unit/function.
• Participate in active mentorship and rising talent identification.
• Interpret internal/external business challenges and recommend integration of the appropriate systems, applications and technology to provide a fully functional solution to a business problem.
• Champion prioritized initiatives across the local organization and work with others across EG to investigate those initiatives.
• Communicate and document solutions and design decisions
• Establish and lead high standards in API development, service contract design, and protocol selection, leveraging REST for simplicity and flexibility, and introducing gRPC for high-performance internal communication and rapid service-to-service interactions.
• Drive technical strategy and execution, leading technology adoption and strategic architectural decisions.
• Identify opportunities for improvement in process, tooling, and architecture, proactively driving technical advancements and innovations.
• Perform code reviews and apply software development best practices to maintain code quality, consistency, and maintainability across teams.
• Drive results, hold accountability for deliverables, and take ownership to ensure projects are delivered on-time with high-quality standards.
   

Who you are:

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, preferably in distributed, large-scale enterprises and cloud-native environments.
• Deep expertise in designing robust, scalable microservice architectures and APIs.
• Solid experience developing software solutions in Java and Kotlin.
• Extensive experience with cloud platforms like AWS.
• Experience with container technologies (Kubernetes) and CI/CD tools/processes.
• Strong understanding and implementation of best practices for security, scalability, performance, reliability, and monitoring.
• Excellent technical leadership skills, with experience mentoring and guiding engineers to align on technical strategy.
• Outstanding communication, collaboration, and presentation skills, able to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences effectively.
• Strong Preference: Proven experience in the online travel or e-commerce industry, particularly backend systems handling significant scale and traffic (high throughput) with low latency.

Accommodation requests

If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, or other physical or mental health conditions, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the Accommodation Request.

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