Software Develpment Engineer III

Traveltechessentialist; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Expedia Group is seeking a software engineer to own high-scale services, drive end-to-end design and delivery, and mentor junior engineers. You will work across teams to raise the engineering bar, improve test coverage, and contribute to robust, reliable sign-in and booking workflows.

The role emphasizes design reviews, operational excellence, and collaboration with PMs and partner teams to deliver impactful solutions in a fast-paced travel tech environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's in a related technical field or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of software development with Bachelor's or 3+ years with Master's.
• Experience in Java or Kotlin and designing REST/grpc/graphql APIs.
• Ability to design and build moderately complex, well-defined software systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implement scalable, high-quality code.
• Drive process and technology improvements and adoption.
• Support production systems, investigate issues, and drive resolution.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to test coverage and documentation.
• Collaborate with product managers and senior engineers to find effective solutions.

Skills

Java

Kotlin

REST APIs

gRPC

GraphQL

OO design

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

CI/CD

Git

Splunk

Datadog

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.
• Ability to design and build moderately complex, well-defined software systems

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.