Senior Software Development Engineer

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.

Senior Software Development Engineer

Expedia is transforming the way people search for and book travel. We create seamless and unforgettable experiences for traveler’s while driving success for our travel partners. At Expedia Group, the Book to Trip team plays a pivotal role in turning travel bookings into memorable journeys. Our focus is on delivering a secure, seamless booking experience and providing an always-on trip companion that enhances every traveler journey, while maximizing value for our partners and Expedia.

As a core part of this broader team, the Reservations team manages bookings and provides reservation services across all Expedia Group points of sale. The platform is built on a modern microservices architecture and operates in the cloud using Amazon Web Services (AWS), ensuring scalability, resilience, and extensibility. We are driving key initiatives to make the reservation platform more flexible for product servicing, while continuing to uphold the highest standards of performance and reliability.

We are looking for a high-performing and influential individual contributor who leads by example, mentor’s junior engineers, consistently interfaces with tech leadership in the local organization, takes ownership of complex and vaguely defined projects, and demonstrates emerging team leadership skills based on current initiatives.

What you’ll do:

• Extends outside of direct organization and collaborate with peers across a senior level organization.
• Conducts successfully day-to-day work and solves complex issues in own specific technical engineering area.
• Shares domain and Industry knowledge between cross-functional teams.
• Serves as a guide to others by sharing and helping junior associates in their duties.
• Possesses knowledge of features and facilities for integration, and communication among applications, databases and technology platforms to bring together different components and form a fully functional solution to a business problem.
• Tests and maintains software applications and related programs and procedures by using a variety of software development tools following design requirements of customer
• Acts as a spokesperson for software design best practices
• Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Researches and recommends frameworks and architectural/code design patterns
• Identifies areas of improvements within the code and suggests solutions
• Advocates for operational excellence (such as unit testing, establishing SLAs, programming for resiliency and scalability)
• Advises on technical limitations of software design for products and provides alternative solutions
• Facilitates collaboration with different stakeholders with varied perspectives to develop effective solutions to issues
• Strives for optimum organizational efficiency by applying systems thinking across boundaries and making recommendations about policies/ processes
• Takes a whole systems approach to analyze issues and implements holistic solutions by ensuring that linkages between structure, people, process and technology are made

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