Senior Frontend Engineer: AI-Driven Travel UI Lead

Traveltechessentialist; United States; On-site; USD 185,000 - 258,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Wellness program

Travel discounts

Job summary

Expedia Group’s Layla team is hiring a Senior Frontend Engineer to build fast, accessible web experiences for a conversational travel planner and booking assistant. You’ll craft component-based interfaces with React/Next.js, work closely with Product, Design, and Backend teams to ship end-to-end features, and push for performance, accessibility, and reusable frontend patterns.

You will mentor peers, run experiments, and safely integrate AI-driven capabilities into the user interface, helping

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience.
• 8+ years of experience developing production-quality code in a professional software engineering role.
• Deep frontend/web development expertise, including JavaScript, React, HTML, and CSS, and experience building reusable, component-based user interfaces.
• Solid grounding in computer science fundamentals — data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented programming.
• Demonstrated ability to build fast, scalable, and reliable web applications with maintainable, testable frontend architecture.
• Familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real-world products, with a focus on safely integrating these capabilities into web features.

Responsibilities

• Build reusable, component-based web interfaces with modern frontend frameworks (React / Next.js) that make Layla’s conversational travel planning and booking intuitive, fast, and accessible.
• Translate product concepts, designs, and wireframes into high-quality, maintainable code, partnering closely with Product, Design, and backend engineering to ship features end to end.
• Develop performant, scalable, and reliable web applications, maintaining cross-browser compatibility and resolving performance bottlenecks.
• Run experiments and iterate quickly on the traveler experience, using data to guide UI and interaction decisions.
• Safely integrate and operate AI/ML-enabled capabilities in the web experience — such as assistant-driven planning, personalization, and recommendations — applying AI/ML concepts to real-world features responsibly.
• Advocate for engineering excellence, usability, accessibility (a11y), and quality, and help drive frontend architecture decisions and reusable patterns.
• Mentor other engineers through code review, technical design feedback, and knowledge sharing.

Skills

JavaScript

React

HTML/CSS

Frontend architecture

AI/ML concepts

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Next.js

Node.js

APIs

Job description

Expedia Group’s Layla team is hiring a Senior Frontend Engineer to build fast, accessible web experiences for a conversational travel planner and booking assistant. You’ll craft component-based interfaces with React/Next.js, work closely with Product, Design, and Backend teams to ship end-to-end features, and push for performance, accessibility, and reusable frontend patterns.

You will mentor peers, run experiments, and safely integrate AI-driven capabilities into the user interface, helping