Senior Software Development Engineer

Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.

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 global hybrid work setup (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.

Senior Software Development Engineer

Do you want to transform the experience of millions of travelers the world over? Do you love working with a creative engineering team in building an intelligent, scalable, and personalized travel assistance platform? Do you want to work with state-of-the-art technologies such as real-time streaming, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning?

Our goal is to build the best conversational platform that can meet customers on any channel (social, SMS, web, or voice), use AI/ML to understand/anticipate their needs and deliver unparalleled service.As a Senior Software Development Engineer, you propose, prototype, design and implement various core components of the bot platform in collaboration with team’s world over. As a member of the team, you will provide the thought leadership and technical expertise needed to overcome hard problems. By now, you would have built and supported critical components of products/platforms at scale.

What you’ll do:

• Participate the design, analysis, development and deployment efforts for multiple enterprise application projects to solve complex business problems

• Produce scalable, flexible, efficient and supportable solutions using appropriate technologies

• Support and follow the Expedia Software Development Lifecycle

• Collaborate with Developers, Program Managers, Testers and Production Support Engineers in an agile development environment

• Join the development of web applications as part of the engineering team

• Work with the product team to quickly prototype and iterate on new ideas. You will create fast, easy-to-use, and intuitive applications

Who you are:

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science or any related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience

• 6+ years of experience in full stack development

• Strong knowledge of modern programming languages (Java, C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, etc.)

• A passion for solving complex software engineering puzzles in a dynamic environment

• Familiarity with software design principles, algorithms, data structures, and multithreading concepts

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Technologies we use: Java, AWS, Kafka, GraphQL, Node.js, Kotlin, React, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, S3, Lambda, Docker, Python

• Working knowledge of modern build systems (Jenkins, Bamboo, etc.)

• Experience with Java and/or C# testing framework

• Experience using AWS for deploying production applications

• Experience using bug/issue tracking and code review tools

• Experience using GIT in a collaborative setting

• Contributions to open-source projects

• Excellent organizational and communication skills

• Self-starter that enjoys and takes pride in the development work of their team

• Ability to thrive in a dynamic, collaborative and exciting environment

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills

• A consistent track record of delivering and operating large-sized internet-scale software systems

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 .

We are proud to be named as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2024 and be recognized for award-winning culture by organizations like Forbes, TIME, Disability:IN, and others.

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