Senior Full-Stack Engineer — Travel Tech Platform

Expedia; Campus (IL); On-site; USD 185,000 - 258,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental and vision

Paid time off

Travel discounts

IATAN membership

Job summary

Expedia Group in Seattle is seeking a Senior Software Developer to join the BEX Product team. You will design, build, and maintain full-stack solutions across Home, Attach, and Trip Management, delivering high-quality software that supports travelers and partners.

We value 8+ years in software development, strong API and distributed systems experience, and a passion for reliability, performance, and leading engineering practices.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development experience building and operating production software in a team environment.
• Strong proficiency in at least one modern programming language and hands-on experience with both backend service development and modern web application development.
• Demonstrated ownership of services or product features across system design, implementation, automated testing, deployment, monitoring, and operational support.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, system design, API design, data modeling, distributed systems, and software quality practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve full-stack products and services, contributing to system design, API design, data modeling, user interfaces, and technical implementation.
• Develop high-quality production software using appropriate frontend and backend technologies, with an emphasis on maintainability, performance, accessibility, security, and automated testing.
• Translate customer, product, and design requirements into intuitive traveler experiences and resilient service integrations across the Trips Experience domain.
• Own features and services through the full lifecycle: technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, data partners, and engineers across Brand Expedia to clarify problems, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver measurable outcomes.
• Lead technical discussions and design reviews, establish practical engineering standards, and make thoughtful decisions in ambiguous or evolving problem spaces.
• Improve system reliability and operational excellence through observability, performance tuning, automation, incident response, and post-incident learning.
• Use experimentation, product analytics, and operational metrics to validate hypotheses, prioritize work, and measure the impact of delivered experiences.
• Contribute to a culture of engineering excellence through code reviews, documentation, knowledge sharing, mentoring, and inclusive collaboration.
• Use AI-assisted engineering tools responsibly to accelerate design exploration, implementation, testing, debugging, and operational work while validating output for quality, security, privacy, and maintainability.

Skills

Full-stack development

Backend services

API design

System design

Distributed systems

Automated testing

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Expedia Group in Seattle is seeking a Senior Software Developer to join the BEX Product team. You will design, build, and maintain full-stack solutions across Home, Attach, and Trip Management, delivering high-quality software that supports travelers and partners.

We value 8+ years in software development, strong API and distributed systems experience, and a passion for reliability, performance, and leading engineering practices.