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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 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.
The Software Development Engineer III reports to the role is part of the Vacation Rental Differentiators team within our Product & Technology division. The team is responsible for delivering differentiated product features for the vacation rental traveler across the shopping journey within the combined Expedia Group tech stack across all platforms for the Vrbo and Expedia brands. In this role, you will play a key role in delivering accurate, timely, and compelling features that support a seamless and trusted vacation rental shopping experience for millions of travelers.
In this role, you will:
- Design, build, and maintain robust, scalable, and secure services and applications, including system design (low-level design), API design, and data modeling across multiple product areas or services.
- Lead implementation of complex features and components, ensuring code quality, reliability, performance, and operability through effective testing, observability, and documentation practices.
- Break down ambiguous, multi-service technical problems, propose pragmatic solution options, and drive end-to-end execution with strong ownership and accountability.
- Collaborate with product, design, and partner engineering teams to translate business and customer requirements into technical solutions that are reusable and extensible across domains.
- Proactively identify technical risks, operational issues, and areas for improvement, and implement solutions that enhance availability, resilience, security, and developer productivity.
- 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.
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 that includes ownership of services or applications of moderate to broad scope, typically spanning multiple components or services.
- Proficiency in at least one modern programming language and associated ecosystems, with demonstrated ability to design, implement, and review production-quality code, APIs, and data models.
- Experience designing and operating distributed or service-based systems, including monitoring, incident response, and improving reliability and performance.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience building large-scale consumer web or e-commerce experiences, ideally in travel, marketplaces, or booking/checkout flows.
- Hands-on experience with modern web frameworks (e.g., React, Next.js, or comparable) and front-end performance optimization.
- Experience with Kotlin backend services or strong Java background and interest in working with Kotlin.
- Demonstrated track record of mentoring junior engineers and raising technical standards within a team.
- Familiarity with experimentation, A/B testing, and data-informed iteration on user-facing features.
The total cash range for this position in Austin is $146,000.00 to $204,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $233,500.00, 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.
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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