Senior Backend Engineer - AI & Real-Time Fraud Defense

Expedia, Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 146,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

In-office 3 days/week

Job summary

Expedia Group in Austin, TX is seeking a Software Development Engineer III to design and deliver real-time, AI-powered fraud defenses at a global scale. You will build cloud-native decisioning and automated remediation systems and work with cross-functional teams to achieve measurable outcomes.

This role emphasizes mentoring engineers, championing AI within the organization, and maintaining SLOs, observability, and security by design.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in computer science or a related field.
• 5+ years building and operating high-scale backend services with Gen AI exposure.
• Proficiency in at least one modern language and API design.
• Experience with cloud-native microservices and data streaming systems.
• Experience using AI coding assistants to ship software.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver real-time AI-powered fraud defense at global scale.
• Build cloud-native decisioning and automated remediation systems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to achieve measurable outcomes.
• Mentor engineers and advocate AI usage in the organization.
• Define SLOs and observability for services.

Skills

Software engineering

Backend services

AI/LLM tooling

Distributed cloud

API design

Data modeling

AI coding assistants

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS

Equivalent experience

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Kafka

Flink

Spark

LangChain

LangGraph

Job description

Expedia Group in Austin, TX is seeking a Software Development Engineer III to design and deliver real-time, AI-powered fraud defenses at a global scale. You will build cloud-native decisioning and automated remediation systems and work with cross-functional teams to achieve measurable outcomes.

This role emphasizes mentoring engineers, championing AI within the organization, and maintaining SLOs, observability, and security by design.