Software Development Engineer III
Expedia
Software Development Engineer III
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Jordan - Amman
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Technology
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Full-Time Regular
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08/27/2025
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ID # R-97412
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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.
The Expedia Group Advertising Publisher team builds and operates the systems that deliver sponsored content experiences across Expedia Group’s traveler-facing brands and partners. We focus on ad delivery, template rendering, observability, and platform reliability to ensure high-quality, performant, and scalable ad products. Our team works on a wide range of ad products to enabling partners to reach travelers seamlessly while maintaining user trust and site performance.
Business Contribution/Impact:
Our work directly drives advertising revenue for Expedia Group by ensuring ads are reliable, engaging, and optimized at scale. We continuously run test-and-learn initiatives to further enhance traveler experiences. We also play a key role in enabling advertisers success while improving the overall traveler journey and contributing to conversion rate growth.
What you’ll do:
- You will team up with peers across the organization to build an understanding of cross dependencies and shared problem solving.
- You will seek new technical skills in an engineering area.
- You will share new skills and knowledge with team to increase effectiveness.
- You will understand the relationship between applications, databases and technology platforms.
- You will develop and test complex or non-routine software applications and related programs and procedures to ensure they meet design requirements.
- You will write code that is clean, maintainable, optimized, modular with good naming conventions. You will also use software frameworks to write simpler code.
- You will solve data requirements by applying your knowledge of databases and database design principles to solve data requirements.
- You will lead/clarify code evolution in code reviews.
- You will coordinate bringing together different stakeholders with varied perspectives to develop solutions to issues and contributes own suggestions.
- You will identify opportunities around policies/ processes to increase efficiency across organizational boundaries.
- You will assist with a whole systems approach to analyzing issues by ensuring all components (structure, people, process and technology) are identified and accounted for.
- You will spot areas of inefficiency in code or systems operation and offer suggestions for improvements.
- You will compile and generate reports on major operational or technical initiatives (like RCAs) to larger groups, whether via written or oral means.
Who you are:
- Bachelor's degree or Masters in a related Technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience.
- Prior experience as a Software Engineer mentoring junior engineers and applying new engineering principles to improve existing systems including leading complex, well defined projects.
- Equivalent experience includes:
- Developed software in at least 3 different languages
- Maintained/ran at least 4 software project/product in production environments (bug fixing, troubleshooting, monitoring etc.)
- You have 5+ years of professional software development experience with strong proficiency in one or more modern programming languages (e.g Java, Kotlin or Node.js).
- You understand distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native applications, with a focus on reliability and resiliency.
- You understand large-scale, high-traffic platforms, and can translate business objectives (revenue, engagement, compliance) into scalable technical solutions.
- You are comfortable working with GraphQL APIs or React to deliver user experiences.
- You apply advanced software design principles, system architecture patterns to solve complex requirements.
- You are skilled in observability practices (Datadog, Splunk, monitoring and alerting) and can drive operational excellence across multiple systems.
- You take ownership of technical delivery for complex initiatives, proactively identify gaps, and propose innovative solutions that improve ad performance and traveler experience.
- You mentor less senior engineers, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing, code quality, and technical growth within the team.
- You influence technical decisions beyond your immediate team, collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders (Product, Data, Ops, Partner Engineering) to deliver impactful outcomes.
- You communicate effectively across levels of the organization, tailoring technical and business discussions to audiences ranging from engineers to leadership.
- Bonus: You have prior experience with ad delivery platforms.
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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