Software Development Engineer III

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 III

Introduction to team 

We are the Data Engineering Services team, and we are responsible for all sorts of tooling around data persistence, governance, and transport. We are within the broader Platforms and Marketplaces group that drives Expedia's core technology platform. The focus of our team is to provide tools for moving data from any source to destination, schema management for a variety of database platforms, enforcing governance standards, etc. while we build the next generation of features using big data, machine learning, and streaming analytics. Our services are designed using API-first and stream-first approaches; and they run in a real-time 24x7 environment with robustness, scalability, reliability, and high performance. We work behind the scenes to move millions of data records without failure, and we provide proper access management.

We like to innovate, learn and have fun while building the best products for EG and open-source communities. As for engineering, we solve problems of scale and work on cutting-edge and open-source technologies. Our culture strives to solve difficult problems focusing on product engineering based on hypothesis testing to empower people to come up with ideas. Technologies we work with include Java (Spring), Kotlin, React, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Kafka, Splunk, Jenkins/Spinnaker, Hashicorp Vault, containers, AWS (EKS, S3, RDS/Aurora, Kinesis, Secrets Manager, and multi-data center architecture).

In this role, you will: 

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

• Share new skills and knowledge with team to increase effectiveness

• Understand the relationship between applications, databases and technology platforms.

• Develop and test complex or non-routine software applications and related programs and procedures to ensure they meet design requirements

• Write code that is clean, maintainable, optimized, modular with good naming conventions. You will also use software frameworks to write simpler

• Coordinate bringing together different stakeholders with varied perspectives to develop solutions to issues and contributes own suggestions

• Assist with a whole systems approach to analyzing issues by ensuring all components (structure, people, process and technology) are identified and accounted for

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

• Compile and generate reports on major operational or technical initiatives (like RCAs) to larger groups, whether via written or oral means

Experience and qualifications: 

• Bachelor's or Master’s in a related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience

• 5+ years of experience with Bachelor's degree or 3+ years with Master’s degree

• A high performing individual contributor who acts as a mentor to more junior engineers, applies new engineering principles to improve existing systems, and is responsible for leading complex, well-defined projects

• Worked on projects based on Java or Kotlin backend

• Good understanding of OOPS Concepts, SOLID Principles, Domain and Data Modeling

• Designed and Created REST APIs for your projects

• Good understanding of Kafka, Kafka Connect, KStream

• Experience with Spark Streaming and/or Flink are a plus

• Demonstrates the ability to select among technology available to implement and solve for need

• Able to understand and design moderately complex systems

• Implemented code that uses both relational and non-relational data stores. You understand the difference between a data store and a cache and have experience using both

• Have a solid understanding of code promotion, CI/CD methodologies, and using Git for source control. Splunk / Datadog integration for logging / metrics

• Have experience working in an agile team environment conducting code walkthroughs, peer reviews, and producing user documentation

• Maintained projects in production environments (bug fixing, troubleshooting, monitoring etc.)

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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