Software Development Engineer II

At Expedia Group, we help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time. As a global travel company powered by passionate people, trusted partnerships, and leading technology, we connect travelers, partners, and advertisers through our consumer brands, B2B network, and travel advertising business.

Here, you'll do meaningful work that helps millions of people discover, book, and experience travel with more ease, confidence, and joy. Our five Behaviors-Traveler First, Think Big, Operate with Excellence, Ownership Mindset, and Succeed Together-help foster a supportive environment where people can grow their careers and have the flexibility, benefits, and support to do their best work. Join us and build for travelers everywhere.

About the Team

Join a fast-moving engineering team at Expedia Group building customer-facing and internal platforms at scale. We

ship iteratively, own our services end to end, and lean heavily on modern engineering practices — including AI-

assisted development — to move faster without compromising quality.

What You'll Do

• Design, develop, test, and maintain full stack applications (frontend + backend + APIs) in a production
• Environment
• Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code and participate actively in code reviews
• Use AI coding assistants (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or similar) as a standard part of your development
• and debugging workflow
• Debug production issues across the stack, from UI to services to data layer
• Collaborate with team to translate requirements into technical designs
• Contribute to architecture decisions and help improve engineering practices, CI/CD, and observability
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response as needed

Must-Have Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software development experience as a Full Stack Developer
• Strong proficiency in at least one modern frontend framework (React, Angular, or Vue) and one backend language/framework (Java, Node.js, Python, or similar)
• Solid understanding of REST/GraphQL APIs, databases (SQL/NoSQL), and system design fundamentals
• Demonstrated, hands-on experience using AI tools for code development and debugging (e.g., Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT for coding) — candidates should be able to speak concretely to how AI tools have shaped their workflow.
• Experience with version control (Git), CI/CD pipelines, and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to debug complex, multi-layered systems.
• Hands-on experience building or working with AI agents — systems that use LLMs to reason, plan, and take actions autonomously across multi-step workflows.
• Understanding of tool/function calling patterns used to connect LLMs with external APIs, databases, and services.
• Familiarity with agentic frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, or Amazon Bedrock Agents to orchestrate tool use, memory, and decision loops.
• Exposure to MCP (Model Context Protocol) or similar standards for connecting AI models to external tools and data sources is a plus.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

Good to Have

• Data engineering exposure — ETL pipelines, data warehousing, Spark processing & Kafka, or similar big-data
• Tooling
• Experience with microservices architecture and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)
• Familiarity with observability/monitoring tools (Datadog, Grafana, Splunk)
• Exposure to travel/e-commerce domain or high-scale consumer platforms
• Experience leading small technical initiatives.
• Contributions to internal tooling, developer productivity, or AI-workflow adoption within a team

Location

• Gurgaon, India (on-site/hybrid per Expedia Group's current work policy

Accommodation requests

Expedia Group is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience. If you need an accommodation or adjustment due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please submit a request at https://expedia.service-now.com/askeg?id=job_accommodation.

About Expedia Group

Expedia Group includes three flagship consumer brands - Expedia, Hotels.com, and Vrbo - along with a leading B2B travel business and travel advertising offerings. Across our brands and business, we help travelers explore the world with confidence and ease.

Important notice

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Equal Opportunity

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, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.