Software Develpment Engineer III

11550 Expedia Online Travel Sv; Gurgaon; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Expedia Group in India is seeking a senior software engineer to own critical, high-scale services powering sign-in and booking experiences across EG brands. You will lead end-to-end design and delivery, mentor junior engineers, and improve test coverage, runbooks, and AI-assisted workflows.

The role requires strong Java/Kotlin, REST/GRPC APIs, cloud experience (AWS), and a track record of shipping reliable systems in a fast-paced, agile environment. Remote-friendly options may apply.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's in a related technical field or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years of software development experience with a Bachelor's degree or 3+ years with a Master's degree.
• Experience in an object-oriented language (e.g., Java, Kotlin) and designing REST/grpc/graphql APIs/MCP servers.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implement scalable products and solutions with high-quality, well-documented code.
• Support Production systems and investigate issues toward resolution.
• Collaborate with Product Managers to formulate user stories and requirements.
• Mentor junior engineers and improve test coverage and runbooks.

Skills

Java

Kotlin

REST APIs

GRPC APIs

GraphQL

Microservices

AWS

CI/CD

Git

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Master's degree in a technical field

Tools

Git

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Splunk

Datadog

AWS

Job description

At Expedia Group, we help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time. As a global travel company powered by passionate people, trusted partnerships, and leading technology, we connect travelers, partners, and advertisers through our consumer brands, B2B network, and travel advertising business. Here, you'll do meaningful work that helps millions of people discover, book, and experience travel with more ease, confidence, and joy. Our five Behaviors-Traveler First, Think Big, Operate with Excellence, Ownership Mindset, and Succeed Together-help foster a supportive environment where people can grow their careers and have the flexibility, benefits, and support to do their best work. Join us and build for travelers everywhere.

Introduction to the Team

The Identity Profile team is part of EG Identity and owns the profile data for every user across Expedia Group brands. We build and run the services behind the Universal Profile, including profile storage and APIs, the profile business events consumed across EG, and the integration paths into sign-in and checkout. We are a hands-on, AI-forward team: engineers use agentic tools for development, triage, and documentation, with a strong emphasis on review quality and clear specs.

As a software engineer you will own critical, high-scale services. You will be a technical owner for multiple critical services which are in business critical. Reliability and latency here directly affect sign-in and booking for all EG brands. Lead design and delivery end to end. You will take ambiguous problems from design doc to production rollout, working with PMs, TPMs, and partner engineering teams. Raise the engineering bar. You will give thorough design and code reviews, mentor SDE 1/2 engineers, and help the team improve test coverage (including E2E and performance testing), documentation, and AI-assisted workflows. Strengthen operational excellence. You will improve alerting, runbooks, and incident learnings, and take part in on-call.

In this role, you will

• Lead design and implement products and solutions that are highly scalable with high-quality, clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.
• Find opportunities for process and technology improvements, and work towards adoption and implementation.
• Assist with supporting Production systems (includes investigating issues and working towards resolution).
• Exercise creativity and provide alternative solutions to a given problem removing roadblocks and driving issues to closure.
• Create/update documentation for the purpose of sharing knowledge between team members.
• Actively participate in group technology reviews to critique the work of self and others.
• Participate and formulate user story creation in partnership with the team, product managers.
• Closely collaborate with Senior and Principal Developers, as well as the Product Manager, to find effective solutions to problems.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's in a related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience
• 5+ years of software development experience with a Bachelor's degree or 3+ years with a Master's degree
• Experience in an object-oriented language (e.g., Java, Kotlin) and designing, REST/grpc/graphql APIs/MCP servers.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud-computing platforms (e.g., Amazon Web Services)
• Experience with managing tier-0/tier-1 applications
• Experience with both relational and non-relational data stores
• Understanding of CI/CD methodologies, source control with Git, and monitoring/logging tools (e.g., Splunk, Datadog)
• Experience working in an agile team environment, conducting peer reviews, and mentoring junior engineers
• Experience maintaining projects in production environments, including bug fixing and troubleshooting

Accommodation requests

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About Expedia Group Expedia Group includes three flagship consumer brands - Expedia, Hotels.com, and Vrbo - along with a leading B2B travel business and travel advertising offerings. Across our brands and business, we help travelers explore the world with confidence and ease. Important notice Employment opportunities and job offers at Expedia Group will always come from Expedia Group's Talent Acquisition and hiring teams. Never share sensitive personal information unless you are confident of the recipient. Expedia Group does not extend job offers via email or messaging tools to individuals with whom we have not made prior contact. Our email domain is @expediagroup.com. The official place to find and apply for roles is https://careers.expediagroup.com/jobs/. Equal Opportunity 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. Expedia Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXPE) is the global travel marketplace with one purpose: to help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time. Expedia Group™ connects travelers, partners, and advertisers through its trusted brands, leading technology, and rich first-party data, delivering predictive, personalized experiences that shape the future of travel. Expedia Group’s ecosystem includes three flagship consumer brands – Expedia®, Hotels.com®, and Vrbo® – the largest B2B travel business, and a premier advertising network. Guided by an experienced and passionate global team, Expedia Group helps millions of travelers in more than 70 countries explore the world with confidence and ease. Employment opportunities and job offers at Expedia Group will always come from Expedia Group’s Talent Acquisition and hiring teams. Never provide sensitive, personal information to someone unless you're confident about who they are. We do not send job offers via email, or any other messaging tools, to individuals we have not had prior contact. Our email domain is @expediagroup.com. Our official careers website, where you can to find and apply for job openings, is here.

Equal Opportunity

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.