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.

Role Summary
Are you a highly motivated Software Development Engineer who wants to take ownership, enhance, and develop independent/open-source products that solve unique marketing challenges? If you're not satisfied with the status quo and are always looking for ways to improve, we want you on our team! Join us to help build the products that drive marketing success.

The Expedia Marketing Technology team’s mission is to build a best-in-class platform that enables marketing and optimizes value for EG Brands. This platform powers critical marketing use cases and provides operational scalability. The technologies we work with include Golang, Python, Kotlin, React, Kubernetes, Argo, and AWS (EC2, ECS, S3, EMR, RDS, etc.).

We deliver measurable value to Marketing by leveraging AI to enhance scalability, optimize processes, and reduce external spend. By integrating AI-driven tools into creative workflows, such as automated content moderation, dynamic asset creation, and intelligent ad optimization, we supercharge our efforts.

What You’ll Do
You will be part of the Marketing Technology team, which powers millions of ads for Expedia Group brands, directly impacting our marketing spend across partners like Google, Bing, Facebook, and Apple.

You will help build foundational capabilities needed to achieve our larger vision: context-aware, agentic workflows that preserve brand integrity while supercharging creativity and productivity. Each effort will contribute to a future where AI-driven agents operate with expert oversight to execute complex tasks that go beyond traditional automation.

• Use your exceptional engineering skills, software design expertise, and technical knowledge to deliver solutions that solve marketing challenges.

• Develop and test software applications and related programs to ensure they meet feature requirements.

• Identify and embrace new technologies, frameworks, and best practices.

• Improve the operational aspects of the platform with updates to our deployment process, test automation, performance tuning, and monitoring.

• Actively collaborate with the team to propose design approaches, solve problems, and evaluate the feasibility of technological solutions.

• Work in a fun, dynamic team environment and provide clear reports on work status and blockers.

Who You Are

• BS or MS in Computer Science or a related engineering field.

• 5+ years of relevant professional experience in a fast-paced engineering environment.

• A self-starter with the ability to rapidly acquire and learn new software skills and technologies.

• Dedicated to writing and maintaining high-quality code.

• Experience in developing cloud software services, with an understanding of design for scalability, performance, and reliability (Kubernetes preferred). Experience with AWS is desirable.

• Proficiency in Java, Python, Scala, Kotlin, or other equivalent languages.

• Experience with React JS is a huge plus and highly desirable.

• Familiarity with testing and monitoring tools.

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.

Expedia Group's family of brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Vrbo®, trivago®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Hotwire®, Wotif®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Expedia Group™ Media Solutions, Expedia Local Expert®, CarRentals.com™, and Expedia Cruises™. © 2024 Expedia, Inc. All rights reserved. Trademarks and logos are the property of their respective owners. CST: 2029030-50

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