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Software Development Engineer II
Our Technology Team partners with teams across Expedia Group to create innovative products, services, and tools to deliver high-quality experiences for travelers, partners, and our employees. A singular technology platform powered by data and machine learning provides secure, differentiated, and personalized experiences that drive loyalty and traveler satisfaction.
As part of Expedia Group’s Technology organization focused on Vrbo, you’ll help build the mobile experiences that connect travelers with unique places to stay around the world. Our team owns key areas of the Vrbo Android app and shared mobile capabilities that power discovery, booking, and trip management experiences for travelers across Expedia Group brands.
As a Software Development Engineer II, you will work on critical, customer-facing Android experiences with a strong focus on reliability, performance, and quality. You’ll design, build, and refine features using Kotlin/Compose and modern Android frameworks, collaborate closely with product, design, iOS, and services teams to ship end-to-end solutions, and contribute to technical designs and engineering best practices in testing, observability, and deployment. Our team values ownership, pragmatic problem solving, and a bias for action, while leveraging the scale, data, and platform capabilities of a global travel leader.
In this role, you will:
- Design, develop, test, and deploy robust, secure, and maintainable services and applications using Expedia Group’s standard technologies, patterns, and engineering practices.
- Translate product and technical requirements into clean low-level designs, including API design and data modeling, ensuring performant, observable, and reliable integrations.
- Own the end-to-end lifecycle of the services or components you develop, including implementation, code reviews, quality validation, release, and ongoing operational support.
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and partners across teams to deliver reusable, scalable solutions that can be applied across multiple domains and business use cases.
- Instrument services for monitoring, logging, and metrics, participate in on-call or incident response as needed, and drive improvements in reliability, performance, and security.
- Work with AI-driven tools, workflows, and platforms to increase developer productivity and safely integrate and operate AI/ML‑enabled solutions that improve outcomes.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience.
- 2+ years of Android experience
- Professional software engineering experience building, testing, and shipping production-quality services or applications.
- Experience owning components or services in a distributed system, including responsibility for quality, deployment, and operational health.
- Proficiency in at least one modern programming language and in core computer science fundamentals such as data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented or functional design.
- Familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real world products.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience designing and implementing service APIs, low-level system designs, and data models that support high-throughput, low-latency, or highly available use cases.
- Hands-on experience operating services at scale, including metrics-based monitoring, alerting, incident response, and continuous improvement of reliability and performance.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate across teams or domains, contributing reusable components, libraries, or patterns that can be leveraged in multiple products.
- Experience leveraging AI-assisted development, testing, or observability tools to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational excellence, and to safely integrate AI/ML‑enabled solutions in production environments.
- Exposure to incorporating AI/ML capabilities (e.g., recommendations, ranking, anomaly detection, or generative features) into services in partnership with specialists, including understanding constraints, tradeoffs, evaluation, and appropriate safeguards.
The total cash range for this position in Austin is $119,000.00 to $166,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $190,500.00, 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.
Expedia Group is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to support employees and their families, including medical/dental/vision, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program. To fuel each employee’s passion for travel, we offer a wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and an International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership. View our full list of benefits.
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