Software Development Engineer I - Web Scraping

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.

Introduction to team

Our Expedia Product & Technology division builds innovative products, services,
and tools to deliver high-quality experiences for travelers, partners, and our
employees. A unified, singular technology platform powered by data and machine learning provides secure, differentiated, and personalized experiences for the traveler and our partners that drive loyalty and customer satisfaction.

The mission of competitive analysis team is to provide best-in-class competitive insights to the internal product teams and help them prioritize and beat the
competition in various global markets. The role will provide an opportunity to be
part of an important and priority workstream, and work with other developers and products analyst to build automated solutions to capture competitive data and insights. Additional benefits with this role involve - Constant Learning & Development support towards individual needs, and opportunity to uncover emerging trends. We observe multiple industry players and their products, and thus you will always be working on some new challenge.

In this role, you will:

• Build automated workflows to extract publicly available data and images

• from platforms

• Innovate tools and techniques for streamlining data extraction processes

• Analyze and compare extracted data to derive actionable insights

• Contribute to the maintenance and enhancement of existing infra.

• Work with datasets to generate key insights through automation

• Have an opportunity to be a part of frontend development workstream in the future

Experience and qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, or related technical field required

• Approximately 1 year of experience in Crawling, utilizing frameworks such as Scrapy, Selenium, Beautiful Soup, or similar tool

• Proficiency in working with different databases, and Cloud technology (AWS)

• Knowledge or experience in Web Restful APIs/Microservices Development

• Proficiency and past experience in frontend development is a plus

• Self-motivated individual capable of thriving in a dynamic, fast-paced environment

• Demonstrated passion for solving complex problems through logical and analytical thinking

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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