Principal Mobile Engineer, Expedia Group
$202.5-353.5k
Salary dependent on location
Online travel shopping company
Job no longer available
Online travel shopping company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$202.5-353.5k
Salary dependent on location
1001+ employees
Company mission
Expedia's mission is to power global travel for everyone, everywhere.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree in a related technical field, or equivalent experience
- Have a strong UX Software Engineering experience
- Experienced in standard software engineering practices & methodologies enabling the full software development process, including establishing coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes and testing
- Possess a strong understanding of business need, help us translate vague business requirements to solutions, and lead their execution
- Understand systems being crafted across Expedia Group and how our business units can integrate with them
- Strong understanding of best practices around experimentation, analytics and observability so that large problems can be solved iteratively. Like us, you care deeply about customers, and are open to a continuous feedback loop: We ship. We learn. We improve. We change! · You also care about our developers and their experience working with the platform. Engage with them, gather feedback and work across organizational boundaries to drive change as needed to increase productivity.
- Proficient in interactions, transitions, animations, and motion behaviors.
- Proficient with layout and screen flow, and crafting apps for accessibility
- Hard-working and influential individual contributor, who sets an example, mentors colleagues, and is hands-on where needed
- Communicates and collaborates with technical and non-technical leadership within EG, across many subject areas
- Experience with end-to-end developing and publishing multiple native apps, preferably across platforms
- Well versed in API technologies, understanding of Server Driven UI approaches, API-first design methodologies, including GraphQL
- Strong grasp of object-oriented concepts, client/server architecture, high-performant design
- Conversant with Kotlin/Java and Swift/ObjC, Android Studio/Jetbrains IDE and Xcode
- Ability to evaluate trade-offs of memory, power, connectivity, performance, and other constraints in embedded systems
- Hands on experience building native UX with modern declarative systems: Jetpack Compose/Flow and SwiftUI/Combine, can have a preference to a platform but navigates both
- Practices Test Driven Development, and has experience with testing frameworks
- Familiarity with Continuous Development/Integration tools like Github Actions, Spinnaker
- Deep understanding of MVVM and other design patterns e.g., SOLID, and how to create testable and debuggable code
- Experience working with multi-module projects, shared libraries
- Previous experience building adaptable, ML powered experiences desirable
What the job involves
- As a Principal Mobile Engineer within this organization, you will be pivotal to our ambition of having a best-in-class mobile app experience, crafting solutions and providing technical leadership to engineering teams across these areas while contributing to the more foundational elements of the Mobile platform
- Establish relationships with leaders across the organization to understand and address business problems through the lens of technology
- Advocate crafting stable, scalable, resilient, composable and extendable software solutions
- Guide and mentor individuals when evaluating the impact of a solution to ensure linkages between structure, people, process and technology
- Support EG technologists in communities of practice and provide stewardship to the teams
- Keep up with industry practices and develop methods to implement them for our ecosystem
- Go beyond organization structures to deliver on technology and architectural initiatives that span the whole traveler and partner experience
- Work directly with other architects to ensure delivery of a cohesive developer and customer experience across all platforms
- Possess a recognized ability to fill in for peer engineering director as the need arises in setting technical next steps in co-ordination with engineering management
- Develop north star vision for domains in which you are focused on
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
- 401K Plan 🇺🇸
- Health Insurance 🇺🇸
- Dental Insurance 🇺🇸
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA) 🇺🇸
- Vision Insurance 🇺🇸
- Health Savings Account (HSA) 🇺🇸
- Life Insurance 🇺🇸
- Private Health Insurance 🇬🇧
Company HQ
Interbay, Seattle, WA
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.
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