Senior Software Development Engineer, Expedia Group
$157.5-220.5k
Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $252,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role
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Online travel shopping company
Open for applications
Online travel shopping company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$157.5-220.5k
Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $252,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
Expedia's mission is to power global travel for everyone, everywhere.
Role
Who you are
- Are you excited by the opportunity to pioneer the future of travel? Do you want to redefine online travel experiences with outstanding content that will delight travelers around the world? Expedia Group’s Content Platform team might be the right opportunity for you
- We are looking for someone who is self-motivated and driven. We highly value teamwork and place a premium on work-life balance
- Willing to come into the Chicago office in a hybrid capacity with the option to work from home up to 50% of the time
- Minimum of 8 years of professional software engineering experience
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Technical field; or equivalent related professional experience. Equivalent experience includes:
- Experience working in at least in 2 multi-quarter projects as a part of a decentralized team and project
- Experience formally mentoring at least 3 individuals and driving technical design end to end for at least 3 projects
- Experience contributing to engineering community through a blog post, open-source contribution, tech talks, rfc, etc
- Able to understand complex systems
- Expert with API creation and access patterns: gRPC & REST primarily
- Strength in Java or Kotlin
- Familiarity with the Spring frameworks a plus
- Ability to monitor your applications and build dashboards using technologies and solutions such as DataDog and Splunk
- Strength in relational data stores (MySQL, PostgreSQL) or document databases such as MongoDB
What the job involves
- This team is responsible for critical systems which help form the architecture of Expedia's content strategy to engage travelers. You will lead applications and micro-services which have very low latency and are highly scalable
- We work in a DevOps model where developers are involved in all aspects of software development from design to automated testing, implementation, deployment, monitoring and support
- You will manage our Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment and learn how to deploy and scale applications on the AWS cloud. Our development teams are passionate about iterating fast and experimenting to help Expedia grow!
- Finally (but just as important), this is a team filled with people who love technology and thrive in challenging situations
- Extend outside of direct organization and collaborate with peers across a senior level organization
- 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
- Partner with product to have a clear understanding of how your own technology stack is tied to business outcomes and our bottom line. Feel comfortable and empowered to challenge authority/the status quo when needed
- Identify areas of improvements within the code and suggests solutions
- Advocate for operational excellence (such as unit testing, establishing SLAs, programming for resiliency and scalability)
- Advise on technical limitations of software design for products and provide alternative solutions
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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