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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.

Software Development Engineer III (Fullstack: Backend heavy)

At Expedia, we believe in being thinker-doers - we are Makers.

We believe travel enriches our lives and connects us to each other. Our Expedia Flights team is dedicated to building experiences that help travelers go places and makes our world more connected. Our team is global with representation in the United States, Mexico, Australia, and India. Flights Shopping Platform is one of the largest in the world serving over 150 million queries a day and powering some of the strongest brands in the industry like Orbitz, Expedia, Travelocity, Wotif, Hotwire and ebookers. Expedia redefined the airline industry with its flight shopping and booking technology 20 years ago. We always want to “be the place travelers choose to explore and book flights for a trip” and are looking for talent to join us and build technology and experiences that power these.

Our team is looking for curious, empathetic, and creative problem solvers with the growth mindset. We are a team of travel-loving makers, building a cutting-edge flights shopping platform using open-source technologies. Our platform serves customers on desktop, tablet, and mobile devices on Expedia sites and through a variety of partners.

What You Will Do:

• Design and ship great user experiences.
• Write easy to maintain products and systems with reliable unit/functional tests and tracking (analytics, logging and qualitative feedback).
• Optimize for speed taking into account the rendering engines in each browser and native device.
• Respect the craft – review the code of your peers and help ensure the product and systems remain at a high standard and support global scale.
• Contribute to documentation (instructional and technical design, architecture etc).
• Team up with peers across the organization to build an understanding of cross dependencies and shared problem solving.
• Participate in a community of practice to share and gain knowledge.
• Share new skills and knowledge with team to increase effectiveness.
• Coordinate bringing together different stakeholders with varied perspectives to develop solutions to issues and contributes own suggestions.
• Spot areas of inefficiency in code or systems operation and offer suggestions for improvements.
• Maintain a high awareness of industry issues and trends, particularly in regard to accessibility, usability, and front-end technologies.

Who You Are:

• Bachelor's degree or Masters in a related technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience.
• Strong technical background with 5+ years of relevant experience in technical development.
• Strong technical proficiency in Kotlin, Java, React.js, Node.js, Redux, Javascript/HTML/CSS, and REST-full services.
• Experience/Knowledge Typescript, Jest.
• Experience/Knowledge with building and deploying web services and web application on AWS platform is preferred.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information clearly and concisely.
• Prior experience as a Software Engineer mentoring junior engineers and applying new engineering principles to improve existing systems including leading complex, well defined projects.
• A bias towards action - You believe that speed and quality aren’t mutually exclusive. You’ve shown good judgment about getting features to customers while still making sure that products are built in a sustainable, adaptive and responsible way.
• The grit to try and try again - You are willing to iteratively work at solving a problem, because you deeply care about customers, and you are open to a continuous feedback loop.

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.

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