Software Development Engineer III

Software Developer

Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.

To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.

We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a flexible work model (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We're building a more open world. Join us.

Expedia revolutionises the way people search and book travel. We make travel smooth and memorable for everyone, and we create success for our travel partners. We are the Distribution and Supply team at Expedia. We own Pricing, Inventory, Reservation and Offers. We delight our Travellers with great prices for any travel (hotel, vacation rental, air, cars, packages and cruises), and support them to reserve and manage their experience. We own the unified technical systems that perform these functions, and handle trillions of events that deliver this value at Expedia's global scale.

In this role, you will:

• Collaborate with team members to co-develop and solve problems.
• Proactively reach out to meet peers across environment and collaborate to solve problems.
• Take advantage of opportunities to build new technical expertise in a specific engineering area.
• Seek knowledge from subject matter experts when needed.
• Understand the importance of system and technology integration and the basic features and facilities involved in the integration process.
• Develop and test standard software applications and related programs and procedures to ensure they meet design requirements.
• Apply software design principles, data structures and/or design patterns and computer science fundamentals to write code that is clean, maintainable, optimised, modular with good naming conventions.
• Apply knowledge of database design to solve data requirements.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in Software development
• Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining software reliability engineering solutions
• Demonstrated ability to design and understand moderately complex systems.
• Experience in an object-oriented language (e.g., Java, Kotlin) and designing REST APIs
• Proficiency in identifying, diagnosing, and resolving complex technical issues within established SLAs, including debugging and tracing in a microservice architecture

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience developing and implementing automated tests and monitoring solutions to ensure software reliability.
• Proven ability to roll out best practices for SLI, SLO, production readiness, documentation, and monitoring.
• Experience providing technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers.
• Ability to analyze and interpret data to identify trends and proactively address potential reliability issues.
• A history of collaborating with cross-functional teams and participating in code and design reviews to improve software quality.

Accommodation requests: If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, or other physical or mental health conditions, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team.

Expedia Group is proud to be named as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2024 and be recognized for award-winning culture by organizations like Forbes, TIME, Disability:IN, and others.

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