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 flexible work model (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

At Expedia Group (EG), we are revolutionizing travel through technology. Every second of every day, we send travelers on a trip. We sell enough tickets to fill nearly six hundred 737 airplanes every day, and our mobile apps have been downloaded more than 10 million times across 180 countries. We work in a fast-paced environment to keep up with the travel evolution landscape. The opportunities to inspire travel for the global customer are endless.

The Reservation team is responsible for booking and servicing reservations originating from all point of sales in EG. The platform is developed on a microservices architecture and runs in the cloud using Amazon Web Services. This role will be contributing to our key initiative to make the reservation platform easily extensible for product servicing as well as ensuring it is a highly scalable and resilient platform. The Reservations team is looking for someone who will deliver automated solutions to create a highly available ecosystem to power the Reservations Platform.

What’s in it for you?

Beyond travel perks and other competitive benefits, you can walk away from work each day knowing you truly made an impact. You can create a new feature that goes on the live site. You can build programs that simplify our backend search and supply processes. This and more can be achieved, all while working alongside thoughtful, hardworking, technical people who love travel to their core.

What you will do:

• Participate as part of team that will have developers of all levels of experience, setting up an environment for continuous learning

• Apply software design principles, data structures and/or design patterns, and computer science fundamentals to write clean, maintainable, optimized, and modular code with good naming conventions

• Adopt cloud and serverless technologies, good design practices, while finding opportunities to simplify and scale

• Debug, test, deploy and manage the lifecycle of code along with your team

• Develop cloud-native solutions to continuously harden our platform and cloud infrastructures to create resilient, fault tolerant, highly available systems

• Drive platform engineering features and be an enthusiast for a DevOps environment across the organization in the pursuit to be operationally better every day

Who you are:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical fields; or Equivalent related professional experience

• 2+ years of experience in Backend software engineering experience

• Backend developer (familiarity with Java stack a plus) to deliver highly resilient and scalable solutions with a drive towards quality

• Experience with development in AWS or similar cloud platforms. Preferred: AWS Lambda, ECS, EC2, S3, RDS, Kubernetes

• Have experience working with Datastores in AWS. No preference, but Aurora and SQL server are a plus

• Familiarity with volume transactional systems, microservice design, or data processing pipelines (Docker, Kafka, Kinesis, Spark, or similar)

• Experience with continuous delivery, automated deployments, and related engineering practices

• Agile practitioner, able to deliver products iteratively, with strong ability to learn and adopt new technologies

• Embrace change, always open to replacing what you built yesterday with something better today

• Strong interpersonal skills as well as strong problem-solving and analytical skills

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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