SDE - III

Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.

Why Join Us?

To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.

We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a flexible work model (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.

Job Description: Software Development Engineer III (Back-End)

Introduction to the Team:

Expedia is transforming the way people search for and book travel. We create seamless and unforgettable experiences for travelers, while driving success for our travel partners. At Expedia Group, the Book to Trip team plays a pivotal role in turning travel bookings into memorable journeys. We focus on delivering a secure, seamless booking experience and providing an always-on trip companion that enhances every traveler's journey, while maximizing value for our partners and Expedia. As a core part of this broader team, the Reservations team manages bookings and provides reservation services across all Expedia Group point of sale. The platform is built on a modern microservices architecture and operates in the cloud using Amazon Web Services (AWS), ensuring scalability, resilience, and extensibility. We are currently driving a key initiative to make the reservation platform more flexible for product servicing, while continuing to uphold the highest standards of performance and reliability.

In this role, you will:

• Join a high-performing team and have a unique opportunity to make a highly visible impact
• Learn best practices and how to constantly raise the bar in terms of engineering excellence
• Identify inefficiencies in code or systems operation and offer suggestions for improvements
• Expand your skills in developing high quality, distributed and scalable software
• Share new skills and knowledge with the team to increase efficiency Write code that is clean, maintainable, and optimized with good naming conventions
• Develop fast, scalable, and highly available services
• Participate in code reviews and pull requests

Experience and Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience.
• 5+ years of software development experience using modern languages such as Java or Kotlin.
• Solid understanding of Object-Oriented Programming concepts, data structures, and algorithms.
• Experience with cloud computing concepts and foundational AWS Services.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong understanding of high-level and low-level system design.
• Demonstrated experience developing and supporting large-scale, distributed software systems.
• Experience with application scalability concepts, including load balancing, caching, and database partitioning.
• Knowledge of SQL, No-SQL databases and event streaming platforms like Kafka.
• Working knowledge of Agile software development methodologies and a proven ability to quickly learn new technologies.

Accommodation requests

If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, or other physical or mental health conditions, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the Accommodation Request.

We are proud to be named as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2024 and be recognized for award-winning culture by organizations like Forbes, TIME, Disability:IN, and others.

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