Software Development Engineer III - Java Backend at Expedia

Our team is looking for a Software Development Engineer III for our Tax and Regulatory Platforms. As a member of this team, you will have the opportunity to build and support the Global Tax Platform and Unified Regulatory Platform for the travel industry. These highly resilient systems must scale to process Expedia Group’s business transactions in time while adapting to ever-changing regulations in markets around the world. They power the complete transaction lifecycles, from shopping through booking, invoicing, accounting, filing, reporting, etc. And they must do these while providing financial-grade accuracy and robust reporting and audit trails.

This is an opportunity to take a pivotal role in building the travel industry’s premier commerce and financial platforms. You will have the opportunity to design and implement our APIs, data streams, real-time compute, and data lake storage at scale. As an engineer in the team, you will need to push the boundaries of cloud technologies. From Kafka, Kubernetes, or gRPC to Apache Spark and Flink, we’re always looking for the right technology to scale our solutions. We need your expertise to build for the long-term, with a focus on design patterns, re-use, and robust engineering practices including CI/CD.

In this role, you will:

• Proactively teams up with peers across the organization to build an understanding of cross dependencies and shared problem-solving.

• Participates in a community of practice to share and gain knowledge.

• Continually seeks new technical skills in an engineering area.

• Share new skills and knowledge with the team to increase effectiveness.

• Demonstrates knowledge of advanced and relevant technology.

• Is comfortable working with several forms of technology.

• Understands the relationship between applications, databases, and technology platforms.

• Develops and tests complex or non-routine software applications and related programs and procedures to ensure they meet design requirements.

• Effectively applies knowledge of software design principles, data structures and/or design patterns, and computer science fundamentals to write code that is clean, maintainable, optimized, modular with good naming conventions.

• Effectively applies knowledge of databases and database design principles to solve data requirements.

• Effectively uses the understanding of software frameworks and how to leverage them to write simpler code.

• Leads/clarifies code evolution in code reviews.

• Brings together different stakeholders with varied perspectives to develop solutions to issues and contributes its own suggestions.

• Thinks holistically to identify opportunities around policies/ processes to increase efficiency across organizational boundaries.

• Assists with a whole systems approach to analyzing issues by ensuring all components (structure, people, process, and technology) are identified and accounted for.

• Identifies areas of inefficiency in code or systems operation and offers suggestions for improvements.

• Compiles and reports on major operational or technical initiatives (like RCAs) to larger groups, whether via written or oral means.
  

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field, or equivalent related professional experience

• Proficiency in Java and/or Scala

• Experience with AWS and containerization/Kubernetes

• 5+ years of relevant professional experience

• Experienced software developer with strong system design, problem solving, and object‑oriented coding skills

• Experience developing in cloud environments

• Background in e‑commerce solutions or similar transactional processing systems, including delivering and supporting highly available, scalable solutions with large transaction volume on a 24x7 operational cycle

• Experience building CI/CD pipelines

• Excellent teamwork and communication skills

• Passionate about learning new things and sharing knowledge with others