Senior Software Development Engineer - AI Foundations

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 Technology Team partners with teams across Expedia Group to create innovative products, services, and tools to deliver high-quality experiences for travelers, partners, and our employees. A singular technology platform powered by data and machine learning provides secure, differentiated, and personalized experiences that drive loyalty and traveler satisfaction.

This Senior Software Developer Engineer position will be part of the DevEx AI Agents Marketplace team. This team is responsible for building a set of autonomous AI Agents to improve Developer Experience across EG. This is an open marketplace to enable platform use-cases and allow teams to use and build their own custom agents to solve broad development problems. This will be a high impact technical leadership role, defining tech strategy, while also being deeply hands on in building out the AI Agents experience.

In this role, you will:

• Lead a community of practice, bringing people together for shared learning and development.

• Partner with business stakeholders to build a clear understanding of how the technology stack is tied to business outcomes.

• Serve as a guide to other engineers, sharing your domain and industry knowledge across cross-functional teams.

• Research, recommend, and implement frameworks, architectural patterns, and code design patterns.

• Advocate for operational excellence, including unit testing, establishing SLAs, and programming for resiliency and scalability.

• Apply systems thinking to analyze issues, making recommendations to improve processes and implement holistic solutions.

• Facilitate collaboration with diverse stakeholders to develop effective and innovative solutions to complex issues.

• Take ownership of the full software development lifecycle, from technical design to testing, deployment, and maintenance.

• Report on the status and progress of high-level projects to technology leadership.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience.

• 6+ years of professional software development experience with a Master's degree, or 8+ years with a Bachelor's degree.

• Proven experience driving the end-to-end technical design of multiple complex, multi-quarter projects.

• Proficiency in multiple programming languages and/or technologies.

• Demonstrated ability to understand highly complex systems and design moderately complex systems.

• Experience collaborating with business partners to identify problems and deliver technical solutions that meet their needs.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience working with AI Agents

• Experience serving as a subject matter expert for a given technical domain.

• Contributions to the wider engineering community (e.g., blog posts, open-source contributions, tech talks).

• A deep understanding of modern testing, monitoring, and alerting tools and technologies.

The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $184,500.00 to $258,000.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $295,000.00, 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.

Expedia Group is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to support employees and their families, including medical/dental/vision, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program. To fuel each employee’s passion for travel, we offer a wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and an International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership. View our full list of benefits.

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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