Senior Software Development Engineer

Division and team
Expedia Product & Technology builds 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 for the traveler and our partners that drive loyalty and customer satisfaction.   

The Expedia Group Pricing pillar is tasked with giving the customer a simple, clear, accurate, transparent pricing experience throughout their shopping and booking journeys. We do this by putting the customer first, creating capabilities and experiences that can be shared and presented to the customer that meet the travelers’ expectations in locally relevant ways and adhere to regulatory norms.

The pricing platform supports millions of users every year in finding suitable travel products using technologies such as Java, Scala, Kotlin, Spring, MSSQL, DynamoDB, Redis, etc. We encourage experimentation with new technologies while maintaining a healthy balance between short- term and long-term goals. We deeply care about building a great experience to delight our customers. Our goal is to enhance every traveler's experience and make it better!

In this role, you will:

• Partner with the business to have a clear understanding of how your own technology stack is tied to business outcomes and our bottom line
• Possess knowledge of features and facilities for integration, and communication among applications, databases, and technology platforms to bring together different components and form a fully functional solution to a business problem
• Creatively test and maintain software applications and related programs and procedures by using a variety of software development tools following the design requirements of the customer
• Report on the status of difficult or high-level projects to local tech leadership via written or oral means. Ensure documentation is complete
• Research and recommend frameworks and architectural/code design patterns and identify areas of improvement within the code and suggest solutions
• Advocate for operational excellence (such as unit testing, establishing SLAs, and programming for resiliency and scalability) and strive for optimum organizational efficiency by applying systems thinking across boundaries and making recommendations about policies/ processes

Experience and qualifications:

• You have experience formally mentoring at least 3 individuals and driving technical design end to end for at least 3 projects
• You have the ability to identify business problems at the project level and team level and design solutions that are easily testable and observable
• You are strong in multiple technologies or languages, and you are an expert in a given domain - (Scala, Kotlin, Java, AWS, Spring)
• You’re able to justify technology choices to technical and non-technical observers making well-defined technology choices
• You have the ability to establish operational excellence metrics at the team level and identify and advocate for project quality via testing, monitoring, and alerting at the project level
• You’re able to guide others in the design of software that is easily testable and observable