User Experience Engineer - III

Expedia Global Payments Engineering Role

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.

Expedia Global Payments (EGP) is looking for top engineering talent to help build and evolve our global payment platforms. Our systems operate at the core of a highly distributed ecosystem, processing over $100B annually across 35+ currencies, enabling seamless transactions for millions of travelers and partners worldwide.

We are building a next-generation Payment Platform (MCKO / OneCPM) that powers complex global payment scenarios (Credit Cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, etc.). This is a UI-heavy full stack role where you will lead frontend architecture and user experience, while also owning backend services and end-to-end delivery.

What you'll do:

• Design and build end to end solutions that are rich, scalable, and performant.
• Own and evolve reusable UI components and payment flows, ensuring consistency, accessibility, and high-quality user experience.
• Build and integrate GraphQL APIs and clients (Apollo or similar) to power efficient, flexible data fetching for UI.
• Contribute to backend services and APIs (Kotlin/Java/Node) supporting UI workflows and payment processing.
• Work on server-side rendering (SSR) and optimize performance across devices, geographies, and client integrations.
• Participate in end-to-end system design, balancing frontend experience with backend scalability, resiliency, and operational needs.
• Take strong ownership of production systems, including monitoring, alerting, on-call participation, and incident resolution.
• Build and enhance observability (logs, metrics, tracing) to proactively detect and prevent issues.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues with urgency, ensuring minimal customer and partner impact.
• Continuously improve system reliability, deployment safety, and operational processes (CI/CD, rollback strategies, feature flags).
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and partner teams to deliver intuitive and reliable user journeys.
• Mentor junior engineers and drive best practices across frontend, backend, and operations.

Minimum Qualification

• 5+ years of experience in software development with strong frontend and backend expertise.
• Deep experience in React.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, and modern UI development practices.
• Strong, hands-on experience with GraphQL (Apollo or similar), including schema design, query optimization, and client integration.
• Strong understanding of web fundamentals: performance optimization, accessibility, responsive design.
• Experience building and maintaining scalable frontend architectures and component libraries.
• Experience working in high-scale, multi-tenant, 24x7 production systems where reliability is critical.
• Strong understanding of operational excellence: monitoring, alerting, incident management, and root cause analysis.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and distributed systems.
• Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design.
• Ability to lead technical discussions, code reviews, and design decisions.
• Proven track record of delivering high-quality, resilient, user-facing systems in production.

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise with backend technologies such as Java/Kotlin, Node.js, and building REST/GraphQL APIs.
• Familiarity with SSR, SPA architectures, and state management solutions.

Why join us:

At Expedia we believe travel is a force for good which can Strengthen connections, broaden horizons and bridge divides. With a mission to power global travel to everyone and everywhere, Expedia is reinventing itself by building a highly scalable travel commerce platform for all travel entrepreneurs of the world. As a developer it would an exciting and unique opportunity to design, develop and test various services with focus on high scalability, availability and multi tenancy.

Expedia Group recognizes our success is dependent on the success of our people. We are the world's travel platform, made up of the most knowledgeable, passionate, and creative people in our business. Our brands recognize the power of travel to break down barriers and make people's lives better – that responsibility inspires us to be the place where exceptional people want to do their best work, and to provide them the tools to do so.

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, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.

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