Software Development Engineer II

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 global hybrid work setup (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 II

Introduction to team

Media Solutions (MeSo) Engineering builds the engine to propel our business forward. We strive to deliver products, platforms, and insights which are scalable, integrated, and innovative.

The goal of Media Solutions Tech team is to spearhead advertising products and services across many Expedia brands including BEX, Hotels.com, Portfolio Brands (COMET & Hotwire.com), Expedia Partner Sites (EPS), and Vrbo. We help our advertisers identify travellers on EG sites, target specific traveler criteria, and then deliver the most relevant products.

In this role, you will:

• Collaborate with team members to co-develop and solve problems.

• Take advantage of opportunities to build new technical expertise in a specific engineering area.

• Develop and test standard software applications and related programs and procedures to ensure they meet design requirements.

• Apply software design process, data structures and/or design patterns and computer science fundamentals to write code that is clean, maintainable, optimized, modular with good naming conventions.

• Apply knowledge of database design to solve data requirements.

• Help coordinate stakeholder input and collaboration efforts when developing solutions to issues.

• Think broadly and understand how, why and when policies/processes are standardized and when they differ across the organization.

• Execute tasks and/or provide data to support implementation of holistic solutions that forge linkages between structure, people, process and technology.

Experience and qualifications:  

• 2+ years of experience in full stack development.

• Bachelor's degree in related technical field or equivalent professional experience.

• Solid knowledge of modern programming languages (Java, Kotlin, Scala, etc). Good to have front-end technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and modern frameworks/libraries (e.g., React, Angular, Vue.js).

• Familiarity in a couple of databases, API access patterns and integration. Solid understanding of REST, GraphQL and/or gRPC, as well as API testing.

• Experience working in AWS and continuous delivery practices. Working knowledge of modern build systems (Jenkins, etc). Experience using GIT in a collaborative setting.

• Ability to test, monitor, debug, fix issues within established SLAs, using testing and monitoring tools.

• Strong knowledge on software design patterns, algorithms, data structures, and multithreading concepts.

• Able to understand moderately complex systems.

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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