Software Development Engineer II - Payments

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 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 Software Development Engineer II is part of the Expedia Global Payments (EGP) team which builds innovative products, services, and tools that enable customers from all over the world to pay for travel in a variety of ways. We build, operate, and improve payment services for Expedia Group's brands, our suppliers (hoteliers, airlines, vacation rental owners/agencies, etc.), and our corporate needs. We do this accurately and at scale, processing over $100 billion payments in 55+ currencies in over 155 countries every year, and across a diverse set of payment options.

Technology and innovation are at the heart of EGP. We provide solutions that reduce the cost of payments and improve performance, scalability, availability, and resiliency. We also provide an abundance of functional support to services in our platform, and the needs are ever-growing, as we adapt to new payment solutions and capabilities. In this role, you will help drive the development of our payment platform and seamlessly roll out new payment methods and capabilities.

In this role, you will:

• Build, operate, and improve payment services for our brands, partners, and customers

• Creatively test and maintain software applications and related programs and procedures by using a variety of software development tools following design requirements of customer.

• Continuously improve on our operational excellence and engineering practices.

• Research and recommend frameworks and architectural/code design patterns

• Build robust, well-designed and well-engineered distributed systems.

• 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

Experience & Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or Masters in a related Technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience.

• 2+ years of experience in back-end software development.

• Experience working in at least 2 larger scale, multi-quarter projects as a part of a decentralized team and project.

• Proficient in Java/Kotlin, J2EE, Spring Boot, and relational or NoSQL databases

• Previous payments experience is a plus.

• Familiarity with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD).

• Experience working in an Agile environment and collaborating across multiple teams.

The total cash range for this position in Austin is $112,000.00 to $156,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $179,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.

Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.

Accommodation requests

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