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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.
User Experience Engineer III - Full stack (Web heavy - React.Js + Java/Kotlin/Node.Js)
At Expedia, we believe in being thinker-doers - we are Makers.
We believe travel enriches our lives and connects us to each other. Our Expedia Flights team is dedicated to building experiences that help travelers go places and makes our world more connected. Our team is global with representation in the United States, Mexico, Australia, and India. Flights Shopping Platform is one of the largest in the world serving over 150 million queries a day and powering some of the strongest brands in the industry like Orbitz, Expedia, Travelocity, Wotif, Hotwire and ebookers. Expedia redefined the airline industry with its flight shopping and booking technology 20 years ago. We always want to “be the place travelers choose to explore and book flights for a trip” and are looking for talent to join us and build technology and experiences that power these.
Our team is looking for curious, empathetic, and creative problem solvers with the growth mindset. We are a team of travel-loving makers, building a cutting-edge flights shopping platform using open-source technologies. Our platform serves customers on desktop, tablet, and mobile devices on Expedia sites and through a variety of partners.
In this role, you will:
- Design, build, and maintain full stack web experiences using React.js on the front end and Java/Kotlin services on the back end, ensuring performant, resilient, and secure user flows.
- Implement clean, reusable UI components and client-side state management patterns, collaborating with designers to translate experience requirements into responsive, accessible interfaces.
- Design low-level system components, RESTful APIs, and data models that support user-centric functionality, ensuring clear contracts, versioning, and maintainability across services.
- Own the end-to-end lifecycle of features from technical design and implementation through testing, deployment, monitoring, and iterative improvement based on data and customer feedback.
- 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.
- Collaborate across engineering, product, and UX to deliver cohesive experiences across multiple domains, contributing to shared patterns, libraries, and best practices that enable fungible full stack development.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience.
- 5+ years of relevant professional experience.
- Hands-on experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs, low-level component designs, and data models that support scalable, secure, and reliable user experiences across full stack web applications.
- Proven ability to own features or services end to end, including development, automated testing, deployment, monitoring, and incident response within a production environment.
- Practical familiarity with AI-driven tools or systems within the software development lifecycle, and the ability to safely integrate and work with AI/ML‑enabled capabilities in products or workflows.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience designing and evolving front-end architectures with React.js (or similar) at scale, including performance optimization, code-splitting, accessibility, and resilient client-side state management.
- Depth in backend engineering with Java/Kotlin services, including API design, service decomposition, data modeling, and integrating with distributed systems, caches, and data stores.
- Demonstrated track record of improving operational excellence through observability, alerting, automated quality gates, and data-driven decision making for user experience enhancements.
- Experience safely integrating and operating AI/ML‑enabled features in user-facing applications, such as personalization, recommendations, or intelligent assistance, including applying AI/ML concepts to real world product scenarios.
- Familiarity with modern full stack delivery practices (such as CI/CD, feature flags, experimentation, and canary releases) and the ability to influence technical direction, patterns, and best practices across multiple teams or domains, including role-specific experience with AI-assisted development and experimentation workflows.
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