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

Introduction to team

The Air Connectivity Organization at Expedia Group is seeking an experienced backend developer and a seasoned technologist with a passion for building robust, scalable, and high-performance applications that help millions of people plan their travels and create lifelong memories. Join us as we revolutionize the travel industry! 

The Air Connectivity Organization at Expedia Group is at the forefront of innovation in the travel industry. We leverage our cutting-edge, in-house platform to seamlessly integrate with airlines worldwide, delivering exceptional travel experiences to millions of users annually. Through APIs that adhere to NDC standards, we enable travelers to access top-tier content, enjoy an immersive ticket shopping experience, and add convenient ancillaries to their journeys with ease. 

We are part of the partner connectivity platform that serves as the backbone of Expedia’s business, powering an efficient two-way marketplace that bridges supply and demand. Leveraging diverse integration methods—ranging from direct connections to NDC and GDS sourcing—our platform processes over 50 Tier-1 services and generates more than 8TB of data each month. Built with modern technologies like Java, Kotlin, Spring, MSSQL, DynamoDB, and Redis, our ecosystem supports millions of travelers in finding the best travel products tailored to their needs. 

What Sets Us Apart 

Global Scale: We operate a platform that impacts millions of users worldwide, making air travel more accessible, seamless, and personalized

Innovation-Driven: We thrive on solving complex challenges, continuously improving our technology stack, and staying ahead in the fast-paced travel industry

Collaborative Culture: Our geographically distributed team is empowered to drive high-priority initiatives independently while fostering a culture of collaboration, inclusivity, and shared success

If you’re passionate about creating transformative solutions, tackling large-scale engineering challenges, and shaping the future of air travel, then we’d love to have you on our team. Join us, and let’s redefine the way the world travels together! 

  

In this role, you will:   

Lead and actively contribute to all phases of the software development lifecycle, including design, analysis, development, and deployment efforts for multiple enterprise application projects to tackle complex business problems

Deconstruct large, complex problems into manageable and achievable milestones, driving streamlined execution by the team

Provide technical guidance and mentoring to peers and junior engineers, helping them overcome obstacles and fostering their growth

Collaborate with Expedia Group leaders to architect and build robust applications, thoughtfully selecting relevant technologies to evolve the Expedia travel platform

Maintain, monitor, and improve our solutions and systems with a focus on service excellence; apply industry standards and new technologies to enhance efficiency, quality, and system performance

Research, design, and implement modular and scalable software components, leveraging your understanding of the Expedia ecosystem and current industry trends

Understand business goals and constraints, and articulate the impact of technical decisions on outcomes

Propose high-level and detailed architectures for sustainable, long-term solutions

Provide high-level estimates and break down complex tasks into actionable steps

Address architectural and technical challenges, enabling informed decision-making within the team

Enhance observability, monitoring, and alerting mechanisms to ensure operational excellence

Optimize existing solutions to close gaps and maintain high-quality standards

Advocate for and implement software design best practices, including unit testing, programming for resiliency, and scalability

Coach and mentor developers, offering guidance and sharing knowledge to support their professional growth

Actively participate in or lead communities of practice, building expertise and fostering shared learning

Communicate the status of high-level projects and milestones to local tech leadership through written or oral means. Ensure thorough and complete documentation

Document designs, best practices, and implemented solutions for team and organizational benefit

 

 Experience and qualifications:

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience 

Technical degree preferred, with hands-on project experience

8+ years of experience for Bachelor's degree holders or 6+ years for Master's degree holders

Self-starter consistently looking to innovate and enhance customer experiences, with the ability to own solutions end-to-end

Strong technical proficiency, capable of problem-solving and applying critical thinking

Deep understanding of software design principles, algorithms, and data structures, with a commitment to technical excellence 

Strong communication skills and highly effective collaborator

Able to articulate ideas to teammates, peers, and leaders, providing details and supporting ideas with data where applicable

Incorporate others' input and feedback and strive to find common ground

Proven experience leading the end-to-end design and implementation of complex, multi-quarter projects

Hands-on experience working in decentralized teams and mentoring individuals

Demonstrated contributions to the engineering community, such as blog posts, open-source contributions, or tech talks

Proficient in backend technologies (Java, Kotlin, GraphQL/RESTful APIs)

Experience building on cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) with sound architectural patterns and scalable, cost-efficient production-quality systems and CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions) 

Advanced skills in unit, integration, and end-to-end testing with tools like JUnit, Mockito, Jest, Cypress, or Selenium

Ability to design highly complex systems and guide cross-team integrations

Advocate for best practices in software design and operational excellence

Establish robust testing, monitoring, and alerting mechanisms

Solve business problems by aligning team goals with organizational needs

Enjoy and take pride in the work of your team, focusing on the team's success and leading by example

Employ systems thinking to analyze issues and implement holistic, efficient solutions

The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $173,000.00 to $242,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $277,000.00, 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.

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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