Data Engineer II

Expedia, Inc.; Madrid; On-site; EUR 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous time-off

Flexible work model

Career development resources

Exciting travel perks

Job summary

A leading travel technology company in Madrid is seeking a Data Engineer to develop innovative solutions for data processing and visualization. The ideal candidate has experience with modern programming languages like Scala or Python, and is familiar with AWS services. This role emphasizes collaboration, continuous learning, and improving data systems at scale. Join us to shape the future of travel through cutting-edge technologies and a friendly team culture.

Qualifications

• Experience with at least one modern programming language (e.g. Scala, Python or Java).
• Experience in delivering and supporting scalable solutions with large transaction volume.
• Self-motivated with good organizational skills to work in a multi-disciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Develop various facets of data capture and processing.
• Communicate and document solutions and design decisions.
• Propose new methods and contribute to system architecture.

Skills

Familiarity with AWS

Experience with SQL

Proficiency in Scala

Problem-solving mindset

Organizational skills

Tools

Kafka

Spark

Airflow

Docker

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.

Are you a Data engineer looking to join a leading technology company to build products and features? Are you passionate about data and everything it powers? Are you ready to help people travel, go from anywhere to somewhere, possible? If this sounds like you, keep reading!

Introduction to team

Expedia B2B is the B2B arm of Expedia Group. We provide the scale, innovative technology and supply of Expedia Group to businesses looking to take on the world of travel. Through these partnerships we power experiences for millions of consumers globally, helping drive brand loyalty and growth for our partners, and Expedia Group.

We're constantly looking for opportunities to improve the breadth and depth of the products we offer. From a strategic standpoint, our ambition is to unlock the power of Expedia for partners. Our mission is to fuel our partners’ growth through our unparalleled technology, travel supply and support services. We are about travel, but also about state‑of‑the‑art technology, AI and ML. Data is our underlying foundation, and the only way to operate at our immense scale is to develop our own technologies and use cloud capabilities on positive and exciting test and learn environment.

As today, the streaming platform ingests more than 3.6b domain event messages per day, 11.5 TB, that we enrich and transform, making it available for all internal functions, people and services.

If you are someone with a growth mindset and love solving complex and challenging problems, come join us on this exciting journey.

In this role, you will:

• Developing various facets of data capture, data processing, storage, distribution and visualization
• Understanding and applying AWS standard methodologies and products (compute, storage, databases)
• Writing clean, maintainable and well‑tested code
• Develop scalable and highly‑performant distributed systems with everything this entails (availability, monitoring, resiliency)
• Communicating and documenting solutions and design decisions
• Proposing new ways of doing things and contribute to the system architecture
• Be part of an agile team that is continuously learning and improving.

Experience and Qualification:

• Experience with at least one modern programming language (e.g. Scala, Python or Java etc)
• Experience delivering and supporting highly available and scalable solutions with large transaction volume
• Experience in working with Relational Databases and proven knowledge of SQL
• Experience of using cloud services (e.g. AWS)
• A passion for learning, especially in the areas of data, technology, service design patterns and system architecture
• Be self‑motivated with drive and good organizational skills to work in a multi‑disciplinary team.

Our Team Really Enjoy

• A friendly and collaborative team who are keen to share their knowledge and constantly learn new things
• A bias for action
• You will get the opportunity to work on a cloud‑based data lake backed by the full suite technologies and including Kafka, Spark, Scala, Airflow, Hive, Kinesis, EMR and Docker.

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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