Software Development Engineer II

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.

Software Development Engineer II

We are looking for a Software Development Engineer II to join the Pricing teams (part of Distribution Supply and Trust Organization), responsible for developing and handling our pricing products that provide the best deals for our customers.

The vision for this organization is to encourage travel by building a framework for trusted marketplaces. We are building capabilities that inspire travel by providing quality, selection, value and safety for all marketplace participants - that is, our customers, partners, suppliers. We are converging this onto a single platform, developing this for all brands and all lines of business. We operate at the intersection between supply & demand in the marketplace.

Our team works on the cutting edge features in EG pricing services, ensuring we're giving travellers the best deals possible. Our applications are high throughput low latency systems that are essential to all of Expedia's pricing services. We are a team, passionate about growth and opportunity, investing in our engineers so that we build the best applications possible. We work closely with product managers to build new features to improve Expedia's capabilities for all users of Expedia. Our team builds features that are used by every single hotel partner. We benefit both the traveller and our partners by providing novel ways for partners to optimize their rates as a means to give them the greatest exposure to potential travellers. Our cloud-native (AWS) technology powered travel platform enables our marketplace participants. We organise for feature velocity, so wherever appropriate, your teams will use AWS services like Lambda, Kinesis, ElastiCache, Aurora, DynamoDB and of course EC2, ECS and S3. To further help speed things up, you'll look to build on top of open-source systems and libraries like Redis, GRPC, Akka, Cassandra, and MongoDB with our services built on JVM.

What you will do:

• Collaborate with team members to co-develop and resolve problems
• Take advantage of opportunities to build new technical expertise in a specific engineering area
• Understand the importance of system and technology integration and the basic features and facilities involved in the integration process
• Apply software design principles, data structures and/or design patterns and computer science fundamentals to write code that is clean, maintainable, optimized, modular with good naming conventions
• Implement tasks and/or provides data to support implementation of holistic solutions that forge linkages between structure, people, process and technology
• Apply formal training methods to current workload. You feel comfortable exciting authority/the status quo
• Report clearly on current work status
• Ask challenging questions when empowered to do so

Who you are:

• Professional software engineering experience
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience
• Developed software in a team environment of at least 5 engineers (agile, version control, etc.)
• Built and maintained a software project/product in production environments in public/hybrid cloud infrastructure
• Strength in a strongly typed object oriented language like Java, Scala experience is a plus
• Familiarity with modern databases
• Understanding of how projects fit together within your team and the team’s goals fit the business need.
• Able to understand moderately sophisticated systems
• Able to test and monitor your code
• Understanding of testing and monitoring tools
• Ability to debug applications