Senior Software Development Engineer, Expedia Group
Payments
$173-242.5k
Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $277,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role
Online travel shopping company
Open for applications
Online travel shopping company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$173-242.5k
Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $277,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role
1001+ employees
Company mission
Expedia's mission is to power global travel for everyone, everywhere.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree or Masters in a related Technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience
- 5+ years of experience in software development
- Experience working in at least 2 multi-quarter projects as a part of a decentralized team and project
- Ability to identify business problems at the project level and team level and design solutions that are easily testable and observable
- Strong understanding of how team goals fit a business need
- Strong in multiple technologies or languages and is an expert in a given domain
- Able to justify technology choices to technical and non-technical observers making well defined technology choices
- Guiding integrations across teams within business unit
- Guides others in design of software that is easily testable and observable
- Ability to identify and advocate for project quality via testing, monitoring and alerting at the project level
- Ability to establish operational excellence metrics at the team level
What the job involves
- As a senior member of the team, you will develop, test, support, and operate Java services and APIs built with Dropwizard, Kafka, MongoDB, and Amazon Web Services
- You will integrate with EG’s highly distributed SOA, composed of hundreds of separate services and applications, fronted by a highly adaptable web layer and backed by the latest data science and machine learning platforms
- You will work in a motivated, fast-moving agile team and communicate directly with stakeholders, product management, and leadership.
- You will also be a part of the progressive, inclusive development team, where learning is treasured, shared and innovation is rewarded
- Extend outside of direct organization and collaborate with peers across a senior level organization
- Identify problems impacting developer productivity, find solutions, operationalize them, take ownership, and evangelize them
- Successfully conduct day-to-day work and solve complex issues in your own specific technical engineering area
- Serve as a guide to others by sharing and helping junior associates in their duties
- Creatively test and maintain software applications and related programs and procedures by using a variety of software development tools following design requirements of customer
- Research and recommend frameworks and architectural/code design patterns
- Advocate for Quality Excellence (such as unit testing, establishing SLAs, programming for resiliency and scalability)
- Facilitate collaboration with different stakeholders with varied perspectives to develop effective solutions to issues
- Spot outmoded methods of operation with current systems and design plans for disrupting them in a non-disruptive manner
- Report on status of difficult or high-level projects to local tech leadership via written or oral means. Ensure documentation is complete
Our take
Expedia is an online travel agency. They enable users to access a wide range of services including airline tickets, hotel reservations, car rentals, cruises, vacation packages, and various attractions and services via the world wide web and telephone travel agents. Its primary web businesses include Expedia.com, Hotels.com, Hotwire.com, and Egencia.com.
Between 2021 and 2022, Expedia has been selling and merging a list of its sub-brands in a bid to simplify its operations, including Egencia and Classic Vacations. Due to plummeting share prices, mostly in the case of its sub-brands, Expedia has been leveraging its subsidiaries' customer base and merging them into the company’s core brand. Contrasting this move, Expedia has also been partnering with tech start-ups in a bid to make travel more accessible to underserved groups. Becoming Rentable, a travel company for the disabled is one of 12 startups that are part of Expedia Group’s new Open World Accelerator Programme.
What this indicates is Expedia’s shift from buying other travel companies and a move towards enhancing the experience of its preexisting customer base. This move is aiding in a long-term plan for greater long-term traveler loyalty, utilizing Expedia’s vast amounts of data, not just from reviews, but from check-in, cleanliness, communication, cancelations, etc to inform how guests experience a property.
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Company
Company benefits
- Leisure Travel Reimbursement
- Travel Discounts
- Family & Friends Discount
- Employee Assistance Program
- Wellness Reimbursement
- Global Service Awards
- Business Travel Medical Insurance
- Matching Gifts
- Expert Medical Opinion
- New Parent Benefit
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- 401K Plan
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Vision Insurance
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Life Insurance
Company values
- Force Simplicity
- Include Consciously
- Trust Each Other
- Go Get What's Next
- Choose Fearlessly
Company HQ
Interbay, Seattle, WA
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Leadership
Peter M. Kern
(CEO, not founder)Has been a director of Expedia Group since completion of the IAC/Expedia Group Spin-Off and has served as Vice Chairman of Expedia Group since June 2018. Previously CEO of Tribune Media and Managing Partner of InterMedia Partners VII, LP, a private equity firm.
People progressing
Joined as Manager - Strategic Initiatives and has been promoted multiple times to Senior Manager - Strategic Initiatives after 1 year, to Director - Strategic Initiatives also after 1 year, and again to Senior Director - Strategy & Supply after 2 years. Now works as the Vice President of the Travel Agent Affiliate Program.
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