Senior Backend Engineer (FinTech/Insurance) — Seattle

Traveltechessentialist; Washington; On-site; USD 119,000 - 167,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Paid time off

Wellness & travel reimbursement

Travel discounts

IATAN membership

Job summary

Expedia Group is hiring a backend-leaning full-stack engineer (≈70% backend) to design, build, and operate high-throughput services powering insurance and fintech products across the Expedia platform. You will lead cross-team initiatives across pricing, checkout, booking, and servicing, and develop scalable APIs and data models for dynamic product offerings.

The role emphasizes 0→1 product launches, rapid iteration, strong performance and reliability, and an on-call rotation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent engineering experience.
• 3+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience building backend services and APIs in distributed systems.
• Proficiency in Kotlin or Java; AWS experience.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development workflows or AI/ML-enabled systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate high-throughput backend services powering insurance and fintech products across the Expedia platform.
• Lead cross-team initiatives requiring coordination across pricing, checkout, booking, servicing and more.
• Develop scalable APIs, pricing engines, and data models for dynamic product offerings.
• Contribute to zero-to-one product launches and rapid post-launch iterations across brands and markets.
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code with focus on performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues within distributed, high-scale systems.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools to accelerate development and delivery.
• Participate in an on-call rotation approximately once per quarter.

Skills

Kotlin/Java

AWS

Distributed systems

API design

On-call support

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Copilot

Claude

Job description

Expedia Group is hiring a backend-leaning full-stack engineer (≈70% backend) to design, build, and operate high-throughput services powering insurance and fintech products across the Expedia platform. You will lead cross-team initiatives across pricing, checkout, booking, and servicing, and develop scalable APIs and data models for dynamic product offerings.

The role emphasizes 0→1 product launches, rapid iteration, strong performance and reliability, and an on-call rotation.