Software Development Engineer, Expedia Group
Full Stack
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Online travel shopping company
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Online travel shopping company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
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1001+ employees
Company mission
Expedia's mission is to power global travel for everyone, everywhere.
Role
Who you are
- Up to 2 years’ experience with an undergraduate or master’s degree in an engineering subject (e.g. Computer Science, Software Engineering etc.) or professional experience in a similar role
- You are comfortable with common developer tools and can use them with assistance (such as GitHub, IntelliJ, VS Code)
- Basic understanding of Object-Oriented design and development experience with 1 or more programming languages such as Java, Kotlin, Go or Python
- Have effective communication skills (able to explain concepts to non-technical people as well as engineering peers)
- A quick learner who is always seeking new ways to improve and optimise their technical solutions
- Experience with performance and optimisation problems at scale, demonstrate ability to diagnose and prevent these problems
- You are a great problem solver who is passionate about solving complex technical problems in a simple, effective, and efficient manner
- Helpful to have experience testing, automating, and instrumenting code with an understanding of how to troubleshoot technical problems
- Helpful to understand containerisation and orchestration platform concepts (Docker and Kubernetes preferred)
- When observing something as unreliable, cannot help but understand it and help to fix it. Self-starter who is highly organised, communicative, and passionate about quality, reliability, and customer satisfaction
- Bachelors or master’s degree in computer science or related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience
What the job involves
- As a Software Development Engineer I, you will be focusing on contributing to improve the reliability, scalability, and performance of the world's largest online travel platform at scale within the Reliability Engineering organisation
- With your Reliability and Platform Engineering experience, you will work on building Reliability Engineering solutions and services focusing on our critical services and support establishing continuous learning and improvement artifacts for Reliability and Resiliency
- Demonstrate an aptitude to learn and apply software engineering concepts like design principles, algorithms, and code composition to expand knowledge of systems
- Work closely with your immediate team for questions and actively look for opportunities to improve the availability and performance of the system by applying the learnings from monitoring and observation
- Improve Service Level Objectives and alerts to reduce detection and recovery time of failures
- Participate in solving production issues by work with senior engineers and application teams to carry out root cause analysis and identify correction of errors
- Actively participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle, including requirements capturing, functional and technical design, development, testing and roll-out, and support
- Build upon automation and reporting capabilities to provide insights for the services to improve
- Provide improvements to solutions for a given problem via execution of chaos experiments
- Share learnings publicly through curated reliability engineering best practices and patterns
Salary benchmarks
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
- Private Health 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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