Software Development Engineer III - Austin - Expedia, Inc.

Description

Overview

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.

Software Development Engineer III

Expedia Technology teams partner with our Product teams to create innovative products, services, and tools to deliver high-quality experiences for travelers, partners, and our employees. A singular technology platform powered by data and machine learning provides secure, differentiated, and personalized experiences that drive loyalty and traveler satisfaction.

As a Software Development Engineer in Expedia Group's Lodging Connectivity team, you will build innovative, server-driven user interfaces and responsive APIs used directly by lodging supply software partners. You'll help us build intuitive self-service tooling that accelerates our partners' integration timelines, expands EG's access to lodging supply, and ensures the company's success. Come help us build an exciting set of capabilities that includes lodging management web services and tooling, sandbox capabilities, AI-enabled integrations, and more

Expect to become an integral part of the team, communicate regularly with your teammates, and adhere to software engineering processes established by the team.

In this role, you will:

• You will be encouraged to propose improvements to designs and processes; actively participate as a key team member in all agile ceremonies, code and design reviews
• 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
• Recommend and apply architectural patterns or GenAI capabilities to improve system design and innovation
• Enhance service reliability through observability, automation, and continuous operational improvements
• Participate in on-call support of team's services through PagerDuty rotation

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, mathematics, or a related technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience
• 3+ years of experience in backend software development, working with cloud-based and distributed systems at scale
• Prior professional work experience with Java, JavaScript, code versioning tools (e.g. Git) and Agile development methodologies is a requirement
• Experience building front-end and backend services and a strong understanding of API services as a product
• Strong communication skills and the ability to flesh out functional requirements with the product team

Preferred Qualifications:

• Languages: Java, Kotlin, Ruby and JavaScript/NodeJS
• Markup: HTML, CSS and XML
• Frameworks: DropWizard, React, and Rails
• Database: SQL, NoSQL, and distributed caches
• Protocols: RESTful/Open API web services, GraphQL and gRPC
• Cloud (AWS): EC2, S3, Lambda, MongoDb, DynamoDB, Redis, Kafka and Docker
• Generative AI to enhance your personal workflow and to help our software partners integrate with our APIs faster

Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual's knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.

Expedia Group is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to support employees and their families, including medical/dental/vision, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program. To fuel each employee's passion for travel, we offer a wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and an International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership.

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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