Mobile Engineer III, Android

Expedia, Inc.; City of Brisbane; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A global travel technology company in Brisbane is seeking a Mobile Engineer III specializing in Android development to enhance its partner apps. You will collaborate within an agile team to build secure and user-friendly applications, ensuring operational excellence and continuous improvement. Ideal candidates will have strong skills in Android development and backend technologies, and a passion for creating innovative mobile solutions.

Benefits

Generous time-off

Parental leave

Flexible work model

Career development resources

Qualifications

• Strong experience in Android development.
• Proven skills in backend development.
• Outstanding communication skills.
• Inquisitive and detail-oriented.
• Experience guiding technical designs.

Responsibilities

• Build secure and highly available mobile applications.
• Collaborate with developers and product management.
• Drive continuous improvement in software development.
• Take ownership of your solutions to production.
• Facilitate discussions for scalable system designs.

Skills

Android development (Java/Kotlin)

Backend development (REST APIs, TypeScript / Java)

Communication and interpersonal skills

Attention to detail

Mentoring developers

Job description

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.

Overview

Mobile Engineer III, Android

Introduction to team

Are you passionate about building innovative mobile experiences? As part of Expedia Group's Supply Partner Experience team, you will work on the partner apps that supply and manage our hotel and vacation rental inventory.

Make an impact!

The Android Mobile Engineer III role will work on our VRBO Owner and EPC Mobile native apps across a wide range of supply partner product features, including features in promotions, conversations, inbox, and reservations. Our team works across Android, iOS, and backend technologies including TypeScript/Node and Java, offering you a unique opportunity to learn, grow, and make a real impact.

Responsibilities

• Build state of the art, secure and highly available mobile applications with a strong focus on excellent user experience.
• Collaborate with developers, product management and UX to deliver objectives and goals set together as a team.
• Drive continuous improvement and continuous delivery in the software development process within an agile development team to rapidly deliver quality.
• Take ownership of your solutions all the way to production, striving for operational excellence with a first-to-know, quick-to-fix and always improving attitude. And have fun working with a passionate and diverse team!
• Work closely with the rest of our globally distributed native mobile developers, helping to break apart monolithic apps and improve platform capabilities to meet their needs.
• Facilitate and contribute to discussions that result in simple, scalable, and reliable system designs.
• Help our teams operate efficiently and collaboratively to build apps that are performant, compact, intuitive, and maintainable.

Experience and qualifications

• Strong experience in Android development (Java/Kotlin, modern Android frameworks, app architecture).
• Proven skills in backend development (REST APIs, TypeScript / Java, GraphQL, databases, server-side frameworks) to build and integrate end-to-end solutions.
• Display outstanding communication and interpersonal skills - having worked in a distributed team before is a plus!
• Are inquisitive and have an eye for detail
• Have experience guiding technical designs, mentoring developers, and helping to drive engineering excellence.
• Are opinionated and share your ideas freely, with a genuine appetite for knowledge!

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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