Expedia

Are you a highly motivated Software Development Engineer who wants to own, enhance and develop highly scalable web services? Come join us and help build the communication and notification platform that connects our lodging partners with our customers! If you're not satisfied with the status quo and constantly want to improve things, we want you here! We like to innovate, learn and have fun while building the best travel experience for our customers.

Our team is within the broader Lodging Platform group that drives Expedia’s hotel business. This includes our pricing and availability engine for all points of sale, booking systems, supplier connectivity, and supplier facing tools and API’s. The focus of our team is to provide a communications and notifications platform for our suppliers and travelers, while we also look toward the future in building the next generation of features using big data, machine learning, and streaming analytics. Our services are designed to handle millions of transactions a day and run in a real-time 24x7 environment so robustness, scalability, reliability and high performance. We work behind the scenes to make these transactions happen between travelers and hoteliers.

Responsibilities:

• You will design and implement high quality, high volume transactional services including design, development, and deployment of new business functionality.
• You will apply industry standards and utilize new technologies to improve productivity, quality, and system performance.
• You will work closely with development, program management and product management to define and articulate project technical requirements.
• You will ensure that features deployed have technical integrity and stability by performing code reviews.
• You have the ability to articulate technical design decisions and software implementation in technical forums.
• You will help set appropriate project schedules and handle ongoing changes.
• You should have strong mentoring and leadership skills.
• You will raise the bar for the overall organization by participating in cross-organization discussions, posting internal blog posts, and evangelizing best practices to our team and the greater organization.

Experience and Qualifications:

• 4+ years of experience developing large scale back-end web services.
• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience
• Strong technical proficiency in Java, Spring, REST/JSON API Design and Development, web services and object-oriented design.
• Proficiency with algorithms and data structures, design patterns, multi-threading, concurrency, caching and distributed systems.
• Experience with AWS/Cloud infrastructure.
• Expedience with data engineering and machine learning is a plus.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong customer focus, excellent problem solving and analytical skills.
• Experience working with Agile/Scrum methodologies and continuous delivery principles.

Expedia Group recognizes our success is dependent on the success of our people. We are the world's travel platform, made up of the most knowledgeable, passionate, and creative people in our business. Our brands recognize the power of travel to break down barriers and make people's lives better – that responsibility inspires us to be the place where exceptional people want to do their best work, and to provide them to tools to do so.

Whether you're applying to work in engineering or customer support, marketing or lodging supply, at Expedia Group we act as one team, working towards a common goal; to bring the world within reach. We relentlessly strive for better, but not at the cost of the customer. We act with humility and optimism, respecting ideas big and small. We value diversity and voices of all volumes. We are a global organization but keep our feet on the ground so we can act fast and stay simple. Our teams also have the chance to give back on a local level and make a difference through our corporate social responsibility program, Expedia Cares.

If you have a hunger to make a difference with one of the most loved consumer brands in the world and to work in the dynamic travel industry, this is the job for you.

Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.