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.

Introduction to the team:

The Checkout Core Services Team at Expedia Group is building a cutting-edge platform to deliver an exceptional checkout experience for EG travelers. We are passionate to build highly scalable and maintainable complex systems that ensure high resilience.

The Software Development Engineer will design, code and deliver along with the team. Will work across various tech stakeholders and platform teams. We are looking for a strong SDE with the ability to experiment new approaches, with an execution focus on key existing tech drivers.

In this role, you will: 

• Develop scalable, highly available, and reliable systems with high throughput in the tens of thousands of requests per second with low latency
• Deliver solutions ensuring security standards and methodologies, ease of use as platform services, ease of integration, adoption and maintainability. All of these solutions will be designed for and built in the cloud
• Systems design and be able to present to technical and non-technical audiences
• Coding with right standards and peer code reviews to ensure high bar of quality, performance and functional
• Propose and implement the right practices, standards, policies and rules across different functional areas of the company
• You will lead the continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) while utilizing Agile methodologies
• Develop new capabilities that will enable new features and improve experiences
• Seek to innovate, move quickly into exciting new technology opportunities
• Produce documentation & status updates to keep partners & team members abreast of solutions, and proposed architecture
• Report on the status of difficult or high-level projects to local tech leadership via written or oral means. Ensure documentation is complete

Experience and qualifications:  

• Bachelor's in Computer Science or related technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with ability to work well with in and across the teams
• Excellent skills at encouraging working relationships and driving team-work
• Solid attention to detail, problem solving and analytical skills
• High degree of proficiency with learning new technologies and provide solutions for business, technology architecture, and compliance
• Experience on developing high availability and reliable products with alert and monitoring systems
• Exposure to delivering products using cloud infrastructure
• Strong experience in Java and/or react along with storage solutions
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Spring Boot, and Kubernetes
• Enjoy guiding and learning from your co-workers
• Strong bias-to-action, problem solving & organizational skills

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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