Senior Software Development Engineer

Expedia Group; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 258,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Paid time off

Wellness programs

Travel discounts

IATAN membership

Job summary

Expedia Group is seeking a senior software engineering leader for its InsurTech team in Seattle, WA. You will design and evolve scalable services, own end-to-end technical delivery, mentor engineers, and guide architectural decisions across domains to improve traveler and business outcomes.

You will collaborate with product, analytics, and engineering to apply data-driven decisions, ensure reliability, and drive performance in cloud environments, with a strong focus on API design and data

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Experience leading end-to-end technical design and delivery across SDLC.
• Deep expertise in programming languages, frameworks, design of APIs and data models.
• Strong experience building distributed systems and microservices in cloud environments.
• Experience with AI/ML-enabled solutions and safe integrations.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, containers, DevOps practices.
• Ability to communicate technical decisions to diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve scalable services and components, including API design and data modeling.
• Lead technical design and delivery of multi-quarter initiatives across InsurTech systems.
• Collaborate across teams and foster engineering communities.
• Own features end-to-end from design to production with monitoring and iteration.
• Write and review high-quality code, uphold security, observability, and performance.
• Mentor junior engineers and raise engineering standards.
• Break down business problems into reusable technical solutions across domains.
• Safely integrate AI/ML-enabled solutions to improve outcomes for travelers and operations.
• Partner with product, analytics, and engineering to apply data-driven decisions.

Skills

Distributed systems

RESTful APIs

Microservices

Cloud environments

CI/CD

Mentorship

Communication

AI/ML integration

Architectural design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Master’s degree in a related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS/GCP/Azure

Job description

At Expedia Group, we help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time. As a global travel company powered by passionate people, trusted partnerships, and leading technology, we connect travelers, partners, and advertisers through our consumer brands, B2B network, and travel advertising business.

Here, you'll do meaningful work that helps millions of people discover, book, and experience travel with more ease, confidence, and joy. Our five Behaviors-Traveler First, Think Big, Operate with Excellence, Ownership Mindset, and Succeed Together-help foster a supportive environment where people can grow their careers and have the flexibility, benefits, and support to do their best work. Join us and build for travelers everywhere.

Introduction to the team

InsurTech owns the end-to-end insurance and assurance lifecycle across Expedia Group brands, spanning shopping, booking, servicing, and claims. We build the platforms and experiences that help travelers discover, purchase, and use protection products more easily, and we are increasingly applying data and machine learning to improve recommendations, product relevance, and operational efficiency at scale.

In This Role, You Will

• Design, build, and evolve scalable, reliable services and software components, including system design, low-level design, API design, and data modeling to support customer-facing and platform experiences.
• Lead the technical design and delivery of complex, multi-quarter initiatives across InsurTech systems that support shopping, booking, servicing, and claims journeys.
• Collaborate across teams and lead communities of practice to foster shared learning, engineering consistency, and cross-functional alignment.
• Take end-to-end ownership of complex features or services, from technical design through implementation, deployment, monitoring, and iterative improvement in production.
• Write, review, and maintain high-quality, well-tested code, while driving best practices in code quality, security, observability, resilience, and performance.
• Guide junior engineers and provide technical mentorship that raises the overall engineering bar for the team.
• Break down ambiguous business problems into clear technical solutions that can be reused across multiple domains and services.
• Safely integrate and operate AI/ML-enabled solutions that improve traveler and business outcomes, including applying AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows to production-grade software products.
• Partner with product, analytics, and engineering teams to apply data-driven decision making, define success metrics, and improve system health and user outcomes over time.
• Contribute to architectural direction and operational excellence by participating in design reviews, proposing improvements, and helping shape long-term technical strategy.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience.
• 8+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Experience leading the end-to-end technical design and delivery of complex software initiatives through the full software development lifecycle, including design, implementation, deployment, and operational support.
• Deep expertise in one or more modern programming languages and associated frameworks, with strong understanding of system design, API design, and data modeling concepts.
• Strong experience building distributed systems, RESTful APIs, and microservices in cloud environments.
• Experience with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows, including safely integrating and operating AI/ML-enabled solutions that enhance product capabilities, recommendations, developer productivity, or operational workflows.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure code, containerization technologies, and DevOps practices.
• Experience working on systems that integrate with multiple services or domains, ensuring reliability, scalability, and effective observability.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate technical decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree with 6+ years of experience in software development.
• Experience designing and evolving service or multi-service architectures at scale, including resiliency, fault tolerance, and performance optimization.full-stack decision-making
• Demonstrated leadership through mentorship, engineering community contributions, and cross-team collaboration.
• Hands-on experience with data-driven decision making, including defining metrics, using logging, monitoring, and analytics to guide iterations, and improving system health and user outcomes.
• A strong understanding of business needs, with a track record of identifying and solving team-level technical and organizational challenges.
• Demonstrated depth in one or more technical domains such as distributed systems, data-intensive services, recommendation systems, or full stack applications, while remaining adaptable across domains as business needs evolve.

Please note that this role is only available in Seattle, WA, in alignment with our flexible work model, which requires employees to be in the office at least three days a week. We are unable to offer relocation assistance for this role.

The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $184,500.00 to $258,000.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $295,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.

Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.

Benefits And Perks

Expedia Group offers benefits and perks designed to support employees and their families, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, an Employee Assistance Program, wellness and travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IATAN) membership. Learn more about life at Expedia Group at https://careers.expediagroup.com/life.

Accommodation requests

Expedia Group is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience. If you need an accommodation or adjustment due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please submit a request at https://expedia.service-now.com/askeg?id=job_accommodation.

About Expedia Group

Expedia Group includes three flagship consumer brands - Expedia, Hotels.com, and Vrbo - along with a leading B2B travel business and travel advertising offerings. Across our brands and business, we help travelers explore the world with confidence and ease.

Equal Opportunity

Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.