Senior Software Development Engineer

Introduction to the team 

Are you fascinated by data and building robust data streaming and batch pipelines that process massive amounts of data at scale and speed to provide crucial insights on Travelers and Partners? This is precisely what we, the Service Data Engineering group in Expedia, do. Our mission is 'transforming Expedia’s service data assets into Data Products that deliver intelligence and real-time insights for our customers and Partners.' We work on building data assets and products to support a variety of applications that are used by 5000+ external and internal analysts and business users. 

In this role, you will:  

• Extends outside of direct organization and collaborate with peers across a senior level organization and partners with the business to have a clear understanding of how technology stack is tied to business outcomes and our bottom line 

• Possesses 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 

• Tests and maintains software applications and related programs and procedures by using a variety of software development tools following design requirements of customer 

• Acts as a spokesperson for software design best practice. Researches and recommends frameworks and architectural/code design patterns. Identifies areas of improvement within the code and suggests solutions 

• Advocates for operational excellence (such as unit testing, establishing SLAs, programming for resiliency and scalability) 

• Facilitates collaboration with different stakeholders with varied perspectives to develop effective solutions to issues 

• Takes a whole systems approach to analyze issues and implements holistic solutions by ensuring that linkages between structure, people, process and technology are made 

Experience and qualifications:  

• 8+ years for Bachelor's, 6+ years for Master's in computer science or equivalent background 

• Drove technical design end-to-end of at least three large projects 

• Has strength in Java/Kotlin/Python, Springboot, React, JavaScript, CICD, AWS Services, microservice architecture 

• Serves as an expert for a given domain and guides integrations across teams within and outside business unit 

• Understands of highly complex systems and design moderately complex systems, as well as guides others in design of software that is easily testable and observable 

• Has a strong understanding of testing and monitoring tools and technologies. Identifies and advocates for project quality via testing, monitoring and alerting at the project level 

• Has a strong understanding of how team goals fit a business need and identifies business problems at the team level and provide solutions