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
Expedia's Lodging Booking Services team is seeking a highly motivated developer to own and develop highly scalable and reliable web services that forms the core booking engine behind hotel bookings! These services sit at the intersection of supply and demand, and are mission critical in allowing travellers to complete and service their bookings with Expedia. If you understand what it takes to build a robust, scalable, reliable and high performance service, we want you to join our team!

In this role, you will:

• Contribute to the end-to-end product life cycle for mid to large-size projects: Design, development, testing, deployment, and providing operational excellence and support

• As a Software Development Engineer II, your primary responsibility is to design, develop, document, thoroughly test your code, and deploy it on production

• You will get to build your own automation and reporting tools to provide capabilities around the components/applications you own and will participate in troubleshooting Production issue

• Coordinate, and collaborate on multiple concurrent and complex cross-organizational initiatives

• Effectively build and maintain a network of key contacts across the company, and leverage these contacts to achieve results

• Communicate and work effectively with geographically distributed cross-functional teams

• Drive for continuous improvement in software and development process within an agile development team

Experience and qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's in computer science or related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience

• 2+ years of Software Development work experience using modern tech stack (Java, Kotlin, Spring boot, Mongo, Kafka, AWS) 

• Excellent coding skills

• Solid understanding of Object Oriented Programming concepts, data structure, algorithms, and system-level programming (including multi-threaded programming)

• Good communication skills in written and verbal form

• Experience testing, automating, and instrumenting your code

• Prior experience developing MicroServices

• Working knowledge of Agile Software Development methodologies

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.

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