Software Development Engineer-III at Expedia

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 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.

Introduction to team

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

The goal of Advertising Tech team is to spearhead advertising products and services across many Expedia brands including BEX, Hotels.com, Portfolio Brands (COMET & Hotwire.com), Expedia Partner Sites (EPS), and Vrbo. We help our advertisers identify travellers on EG sites, target specific traveller criteria, and then deliver the most relevant products.

In this role, you will:

• 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, optimised, 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 own suggestions

Experience and qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a technical field or equivalent related professional experience.

• 5+ years of professional software development experience with a Bachelor's degree, or 3+ years with a Master's degree.

• Experience developing software in Java/ Python .

• Experience maintaining and running multiple software projects in a production environment (e.g., bug fixing, troubleshooting, monitoring).
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated strength in a couple of languages or in one language with multiple technology implementations.

• Experience creating APIs to be consumed across a business unit.

• Ability to identify the strengths and weaknesses of different languages for particular use cases.

• Skilled in selecting appropriate technology from available options to implement solutions.

• Proven ability to troubleshoot and resolve issues in complex production software environments.

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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