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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.
Software Development Engineer III - Back-End-Heavy Full-stack (Java, React.Js)
Introduction to the Team
Expedia Technology teams partner with our Product teams 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.
Expedia Group Activities Shopping Experience team is building outstanding experiences for travelers to plan, shop and book activities for their trip. We use personalisation and recommendations to help traveler discover and shop the experiences that suit their travel the most, and help them complete their itinerary. Our team is looking for someone who will drive the innovation and scale of Activities business, by delivering a world-class suite of products & experiences that will delight our travelers, while crafting a working environment where top technical talent will thrive.
Team members in Activities are fully accountable for themselves, their teams, and project delivery in a fast-paced and high-reaching environment. We understand and embody the 'One Team' philosophy and always strive to model the Expedia Group principles. We find creative ways to implement and give equal opportunity from ideas like Agile, Lean, Continuous Delivery and the Scientific Method in many aspects of leadership, management, delivery and operations.
In this role, you will:
Design, build, and evolve complex, distributed services and applications, including robust API design, data modeling, and detailed low-level system design that align with Expedia Group’s technical standards.
Deliver high-quality, secure, and performant code across the full software development lifecycle, including development, automated testing, code reviews, deployment, monitoring, and incident resolution for your services.
Take end-to-end ownership of one or more services or components within a broader domain, driving technical decisions, simplifying architectures, and ensuring reliability, scalability, and maintainability in production.
Collaborate closely with product, design, and cross-functional engineering teams to translate business and customer requirements into technical solutions that work across multiple domains and platforms.
Safely integrate and operate AI/ML‑enabled solutions that improve outcomes, including familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real world products.
Contribute to engineering best practices by improving tooling, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and operational processes, while mentoring others through code reviews, design discussions, and knowledge sharing.
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience.
5+ years of relevant professional experience.
Professional software development experience building and operating services or applications in production environments, including ownership of one or more significant components or services.
Strong proficiency in at least one modern programming language and related frameworks, with solid understanding of object-oriented or functional design, algorithms, data structures, and data modeling.
Demonstrated experience designing and consuming APIs, working with distributed systems or microservices, and using modern development practices such as automated testing, version control, and CI/CD.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience architecting and evolving complex, large-scale or high-traffic services, including end-to-end system design (LLD), API contracts, and data models that span multiple components or domains.
- Proven track record of improving reliability, performance, and security of production services through observability, capacity planning, incident analysis, and continuous operational excellence.
- Hands-on experience with cloud-native technologies, containerization, and service orchestration, including designing systems that are resilient, scalable, and cost-effective at scale.
- Practical experience leveraging AI/ML‑enabled capabilities (such as recommendations, ranking, anomaly detection, or intelligent automation) within production services, including safely integrating, monitoring, and iterating on these solutions, as well as familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real-world products.
- Demonstrated use of data-driven decision making, using metrics, experimentation, and analysis to guide design choices and technical tradeoffs, and providing technical leadership within your team or domain.
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.
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