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.
Why Join Us?
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.
**Introduction to team **
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 across senior-level teams and outside the organization to align on technical direction and deliverables.
- Own day-to-day engineering work and resolve complex issues within your technical domain.
- Design integrations and communication between applications, databases, and platforms to deliver complete business solutions.
- Write, test, and maintain production software using robust development tools and customer-driven design requirements.
- Mentor and guide junior engineers, sharing domain and industry knowledge.
- Advocate and enforce engineering best practices: unit testing, SLAs, resiliency, scalability, observability, and incident readiness.
- Research and recommend frameworks, architectural patterns, and code improvements; identify and implement optimizations.
- Advise stakeholders on technical trade-offs and limitations, proposing practical alternatives.
- Apply systems thinking to propose policy/process changes and holistic solutions that link people, process, structure, and technology.
Technologies: Kotlin, Java, Spring, React, GraphQL, Docker, Kafka, Cassandra, MongoDB, DataDog, Splunk, AWS.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in a related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience.
- 8+ years of professional software development experience with a Bachelor's degree, or 6+ years with a Master's degree.
- Hands on experience in driving the end-to-end technical design of multiple projects in java other than related technologies.
- Demonstrated ability in designing moderately complex systems and making well-defined technology choices.
- Exposure on cloud and scalable distributed system.
- Has strength in multiple technologies or languages (Java/Kotlin/Go/ Python etc.)
- Understands highly complex systems and design moderately complex systems.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience formally mentoring other engineers and guiding integrations across teams.
- Ability to justify technology choices to both technical and non-technical observers.
- Experience working effectively in decentralized or geographically distributed teams.
- Strong understanding of operational excellence, including establishing team-level metrics and advocating for project quality via testing, monitoring, and alerting.
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 through the Accommodation Request.
We are 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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