Software Development Engineer II (Back-end)

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 (Back-end)

Introduction to team
Our team is responsible for fast and reliable delivery of flights search experiences for our customers. We have a strong test-and-learn culture and we encourage everyone on our team to challenge assumptions and drive the product forward. Powering a global set of brands and pushing the frontiers of technology, you will be part of a team building a platform that provides the best traveler centric user experiences in flights ranking, relevance and filter domain.
Flight search is the ‘foot-in-the-door’ for EG flight shoppers and one of the major traveler acquisition and retention channels for EG serving more than 100M+ flight searches daily.

Make an impact
A Software Development Engineer II in an established performer who consistently applies software engineering principles to business contexts, leads small, well-defined projects and continues as a supporting player on complex projects, and actively identifies inefficiencies in existing systems.

Experience and qualifications:

• 2+ years for Bachelor's OR 0-2 years for Master's
• Developed software in a team environment of at least 5 engineers (agile, version control, etc.).
• Built and maintained a software project/product in production environments in public/hybrid cloud infrastructure.
• Has strength in a language, moderate familiarity in other applicable languages.
• Is familiar with a couple data stores or API access patterns and integration.
• Has familiarity with associated technologies within their specialization as part of the wider ecosystem.
• Understands of how projects fit together within their team.
• Understands moderately complex systems.
• Tests and monitors their own code.
• Understands testing and monitoring tools.
• Debugs applications.
• Understands how team goals fit a business need.

In this role, you will:

• Collaborate with team members to co-develop and solve problems.
• Proactively reach out to meet peers across environment and collaborates to solve problems.
• Take advantage of opportunities to build new technical expertise in a specific engineering area.
• Seek knowledge from subject matter experts when needed.
• Understand the importance of system and technology integration and the basic features and facilities involved in the integration process.
• Develop and test standard software applications and related programs and procedures to ensure they meet design requirements.
• 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.
• 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.
• Complete tasks and/or provide data to support implementation of holistic solutions that forge linkages between structure, people, process and technology.
• Apply formal training methods to current workload. Feels comfortable challenging authority/the status quo.
• Report clearly on current work status.
• Ask challenging questions when empowered to do so.

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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