Software Development Engineer III

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.

Introduction to the Team

Expedia Product & Technology builds innovative products, services, and tools to deliver high-quality experiences for travelers, partners, and our employees. A singular technology platform powered by data and machine learning provides secure, differentiated, and personalized experiences for the traveler and our partners that drive loyalty and customer satisfaction.

Price is a key factor influencing traveler’s path to driving a choice leading to a purchase. In a world of infinite paths to purchase, travelers make multiple searches and find the ‘best trip’ and ‘best deal’.

The Expedia Group Offers pillar is tasked with giving the customer a simple, clear, accurate, transparent pricing experience throughout their shopping and booking journeys. We do this by putting the customer first, creating capabilities and experiences that can be shared and presented to the customer that meet the travelers’ expectations in locally relevant ways and adhere to regulatory norms.

What you’ll do:

• Be a part of our development team and actively participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle, including requirements gathering, functional and technical design, development, testing and roll-out, and support.
• Solve complex business problems by applying disciplined development methodology, producing scalable, flexible, efficient, and supportable solutions using appropriate technologies.
• Find creative and simple solutions to challenging problems, with a focus on getting things done and a test & learn culture.
• Write clean, coherent, well-documented code.
• Continually strive to improve our development and delivery processes.
• Enhance a dynamic and close-knit software development team committed to mutual learning through peer code reviews and innovation. Teach and mentor junior developers in project implementation methodology.

Who you are:

• A self-starter who is consistently looking to innovate and find ways to enhance our customer’s experience, with the ability to own large features from end to end.
• Strong technical proficiency, capable of problem-solving and applying critical thinking. Understanding of software design principles, algorithms, and data structures.
• Strong communication skills. You articulate your ideas to peers and leaders, providing detail and understanding of your approach. Keep solid documentation.
• Prior experience working with distributed systems and developing fault tolerance.
• Proven ability to collaborate among peers, leaders and across functions and business groups.
• 5+ years of Software Development work experience (Java or Kotlin experience strongly preferred).

On-Call Requirement: This position requires the employee to be on-call outside of regular working hours. On-call duties encompass:

• Responding to emergencies or incidents as they arise.
• Providing prompt support and solutions.
• Participating in on-call rotations, including nights, weekends, and bank holidays.
• Remaining reachable by phone or other communication methods at all times during on-call periods.

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.

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Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.