Principal Mobile Engineer, Android

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Principal Mobile Engineer, Android

Loyalty Experience technology organization is responsible for the technical implementation of EG Loyalty values  aiming to Inspire lasting connections with Expedia brands, where travelers can delight in tailored rewards from our unrivalled loyalty program

This puts us at the heart of Expedia Groups strategy, increase loyalty program membership and existing members satisfacion, while ensuring contextual, personalized and cohesive experience for all platforms, and brands. 

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 whilst contributing to the more foundational elements of the Mobile platform.

What you will do:

• 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.

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  

Skillsets:

• 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 

• Must have skills: Conversant with Android Studio/Jetbrains IDE/ Kotlin

• Good to have skills, but not mandatory: Java, Swift/ObjC, 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

About Expedia Group 

Expedia Group (NASDAQ: EXPE) powers travel for everyone, everywhere through our global platform. Driven by the core belief that travel is a force for good, we help people experience the world in new ways and build lasting connections. We provide industry-leading technology solutions to fuel partner growth and success, while facilitating memorable experiences for travelers. Expedia Group's family of brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Vrbo®, trivago®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Hotwire®, Wotif®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Expedia Group™ Media Solutions, Expedia Local Expert®, CarRentals.com™, and Expedia Cruises™.  

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