Hybrid Seattle: Senior InsurTech Full-Stack Engineer

Expedia; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 146,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Paid time off

Employee Assistance Program

Wellness and travel reimbursement

Travel discounts

IATAN membership

Job summary

Expedia Group is seeking a senior backend engineer to design, build, and operate high-throughput services powering insurance and fintech products across the Expedia platform. You’ll lead cross-team initiatives and develop scalable APIs while contributing to zero-to-one product launches across brands and markets.

The role emphasizes performance, reliability, and scalability, with on-call rotations and a strong focus on cloud-based systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong experience building backend services and APIs in distributed systems.
• Proficiency in Kotlin or Java.
• Experience working in cloud-based environments.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development workflows or AI/ML-enabled systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate high-throughput backend services that power insurance and fintech products across the Expedia platform.
• Lead and contribute to complex, cross-team initiatives that require coordination across dozens of systems (pricing, checkout, booking, servicing, etc.).
• Develop scalable APIs, pricing engines, and data models to support dynamic and synthetic product offerings.
• Contribute to zero-to-one product launches and rapidly iterate post-launch to expand capabilities across brands and markets.
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues within distributed, high-scale systems.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Copilot, Claude) to accelerate development and delivery.
• Participate in an on-call rotation (~once per quarter) supporting production systems.

Skills

Kotlin

Java

Backend architectures

Distributed systems

Cloud environments

AI-assisted development

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Job description

Expedia Group is seeking a senior backend engineer to design, build, and operate high-throughput services powering insurance and fintech products across the Expedia platform. You’ll lead cross-team initiatives and develop scalable APIs while contributing to zero-to-one product launches across brands and markets.

The role emphasizes performance, reliability, and scalability, with on-call rotations and a strong focus on cloud-based systems.