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.

About Team:
 

Ordering Services team is responsible for enabling customers to plan and book orders in a consistent and reliable manner across various channels of supply through different forms of payment. We primarily represent the Tier 1 and Tier 2 services that enable multiple platforms with the ordering journey. We also share operational insights with the platforms to help them shift customer behavior and increase our Purchase Success Rate.

In this role, you will: 

• Design and implement high performance, scalable, robust and reliable server applications that support key Expedia initiatives.

• Translate functional specifications into logical, component-based technical designs.

• Prototype creative solutions quickly by developing minimum viable products and work with others in crafting and implementing the technical vision.

• Provide code reviews to assess overcall code quality and flexibility, and the application of good object-oriented programming techniques.

• Write automated unit, system and acceptance tests as appropriate to support our continuous integration pipelines.

• Proactively teams up with peers across the organization to build an understanding of cross dependencies and shared problem solving.

• Identifies areas of inefficiency in code or systems operation and offer suggestions for improvements.

• Continually seeks new technical skills and share knowledge with team to increase effectiveness.

• Mentor junior members of the engineering team and raise the bar by contributing to continuously improving engineering practices and development standards.
   

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent degree/experience

• 1-4 years of experience in software development with a track record of shipping large, cross-functional projects in a high performance, scalable global internet service environment.

• Relevant industry experience developing in Java/ Kotlin, Spring and its associated technology stacks. Experience building web services in the cloud, particularly with AWS solutions.

• Working knowledge of SQL databases and other NoSQL solutions.

• Proficient with algorithms and data structures, design patterns, service-oriented architecture, domain driven design, event driven design, multi-threading, concurrency, caching and distributed systems

• Experience in agile/scrum teams, and a track record of learning from your actions to make positive adjustments.

• Verbal and written communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner.

• Solid understanding of the software development life cycle, architecture and design, software craftsmanship and test strategies

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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