Software Development Engineer III

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.

What you'll do:

• Lead complex, well-defined engineering projects from design through delivery, owning implementation, testing, deployment and post-release support.
• Design moderately complex systems and APIs consumed across the business unit; select appropriate technologies and frameworks to meet requirements.
• Develop, test, debug and maintain production software (including bug fixes, troubleshooting, and incident response) within established SLAs.
• Write clean, maintainable, modular code using sound software design principles, data structures and design patterns.
• Build easily testable and observable services: add comprehensive tests, instrumentation and monitoring at the project level.
• Identify performance and reliability issues; propose and implement improvements to code, systems and operational processes.
• Produce operational artifacts and communications (runbooks, RCA reports, release notes) and present findings to stakeholders.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to more junior engineers; lead by example in code reviews and architecture discussions.
• Proactively collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand dependencies, align designs and solve shared problems.
• Participate in and contribute to a community of practice; share new skills and help raise team effectiveness

  
  Who you are:
  

• You have 5+ years of professional software engineering experience (3+ years if you hold a Master’s degree).
• You’ve developed software in at least three different languages and have run/maintained at least four projects/products in production.
• Strong in one or two languages and comfortable with multiple technology implementations; able to evaluate language/technology trade-offs for given use cases.
• Experienced creating and owning APIs that are used across teams or the business unit.
• You understand how applications, databases and platform components interact and can design solutions that span these boundaries.
• Comfortable designing and implementing testable, observable systems and using testing and monitoring tools to ensure reliability.
• Skilled at debugging applications, meeting SLAs for fixes, and resolving non-routine issues.
• Able to think holistically: identify process, policy and operational changes to increase cross-team efficiency.
• Strong communicator who can bring stakeholders together, explain trade-offs, and present technical and operational reports to broader audiences.
• Continuously seeks new technical skills and shares knowledge with peers; contributes to code evolution and technical direction in reviews.

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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