Senior Software Development Engineer, Expedia Group
Backend
Online travel shopping company
Open for applications
Online travel shopping company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
Expedia's mission is to power global travel for everyone, everywhere.
Role
Who you are
- You have a Bachelor’s degree or Master’s in a related Technical field; or Experience driving technical design end to end in at least 2 multi-quarter projects as a part of a decentralized team and project, experience formally mentoring at least 3 individuals and several contributions to engineering community through a blog post, open-source contribution, tech talks etc
- You have 8+ years of Software Development work experience (Java or Kotlin experience strongly preferred) with a strong focus on backend development and solid experience working in high performance, highly available and scalable services in cloud experience working in high performance, highly available and scalable services in cloud
- Experience working in high performance, highly available and scalable services in cloud experience working in high performance, highly available and scalable services in cloud technology choices and being able to justify them to technical and non-technical observers
- Also has a strong understanding of how team goals fit a business need
- You're able to understand highly complex systems and design moderately complex systems and can guide integrations across teams within business unit
- You have a strong understanding of testing and monitoring tools and technologies and uses this knowledge to identify and advocate for project quality via testing, monitoring and alerting at the project level
- You have the ability to establish operational excellence metrics at the team level
What the job involves
- You will successfully conduct day-to-day work and solve complex issues in your own specific technical engineering area, will share domain and industry knowledge between cross-functional teams and will serve as a guide to others by sharing and helping junior engineers in their duties, while reporting on status of difficult or high-level projects to local tech leadership via written or oral means
- You will partner with the business to have a clear understanding of how your own technology stack is tied to business outcomes and our bottom line and will advise on technical limitations of software design for products and provide alternative solutions
- You will possess knowledge of features and facilities for integration, and communication among applications, databases and technology platforms to bring together different components and form a fully functional solution to a business problem
- You will creatively test and maintain software applications and related programs and procedures by using a variety of software development tools following design requirements of customer
- You will act as a spokesperson for software design best practices. research and recommend frameworks and architectural/code design patterns, identify areas of improvements within the code and suggests solutions and advocate for operational excellence (such as unit testing, establishing SLAs, programming for resiliency and scalability)
- You will take a whole systems approach to analyze issues and implement holistic solutions by ensuring that linkages between structure, people, process and technology are made, and will strive for optimum organizational efficiency by applying systems thinking across boundaries and making recommendations about policies/ processes
Application process
- End Date: March 24, 2025
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.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
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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