Software Development Engineer II - Expedia Global Payments

Expedia Expedia · Hospitality · Seattle, WA

Software Development Engineer II role focused on building and maintaining backend payment services for Expedia Global Payments. Responsibilities include designing scalable services, implementing secure data handling, enhancing reliability through observability, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Requires experience in backend development, cloud computing, and object-oriented languages, with a focus on payment processing and compliance.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design, build, and maintain scalable backend payment services that support Expedia’s global travel platform
  2. Apply software design principles, data structures and/or design patterns and computer science fundamentals to write code that is clean, maintainable, optimized, modular with good naming conventions
  3. Implement secure data handling practices to protect payment information and meet compliance standards
  4. Recommend and apply architectural patterns or GenAI capabilities to improve system design and innovation
  5. Enhance service reliability through observability, automation, and continuous operational improvements
  6. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact features aligned with Expedia’s strategic goals

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree or Master's in a related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience
  • 2+ years of experience in backend software development, working with cloud-based and distributed systems at scale
  • Proficiency in Java/J2EE, C#, or similar object-oriented languages, with hands-on experience integrating services with relational and NoSQL databases
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure/test automation, and delivering features in Agile development environments

Nice to have

  • Experience working on payment platforms or implementing backend services leveraging GenAI technologies
  • Experience contributing to multiple multi-quarter, cross-team projects
  • Experience supporting complex distributed systems in production through monitoring, debugging, incident resolution, and root-cause analysis
  • Demonstrated experience designing and deploying scalable services in a cloud environment (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • A Master's degree in a related technical field

What the JD emphasized

  • payment information
  • compliance standards
  • GenAI capabilities