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Senior Software Development Engineer

A high performing and influential individual contributor who leads by example while continuing to mentor junior engineers, interfaces consistently with tech leadership in the local organization, leads complex and vaguely-defined projects, and stretches into team leadership skills based on current projects.

What You’ll Do

• You will design and develop API-first open Technology platform to be used by businesses across the world to power travel. Also partners (anyone using that platform) can contribute back to this platform

• You will work with a modern tech stack including Kotlin, Java, Springboot, git GitHub, Graph-QL, Mongo, Cassandra, Elastic Search, Kafka, Memcached along with other AWS services.

• Drive program & system architecture discussions to identify a suitable quality solution to the business requirement.

• You will act as a spokesperson for software design best practices - researching and recommending frameworks and architectural/code design patterns.

• You will test and maintain software applications and related programs and procedures by using a variety of software development tools following design requirements of customer.

• Advocate for operational excellence (such as unit testing, establishing SLAs, programming for resiliency and scalability)

• You will create a reliable and maintainable codebase contributions

• Engage outside of the direct organization and collaborate with peers across a senior level organization

• Partner with the business to have a clear understanding of how the technology stack is tied to business outcomes and our bottom line

• Have a broad knowledge of the entire product and in EG's languages, frameworks, cloud services, toolkits, methodologies enabling you can help with any component, or type of issues

• Examine inefficiencies in the existing stack operation and encourage engineers to improve them. You will identify areas of improvements within the code and suggest solutions.

• Drive evolution of standards & design patterns with industry best practices and new technology to enhance productivity, quality, and system performance.

• You will be involved in product feature development and will be working in close partnership with our teams at India (Gurgaon), Seattle (US), Austin (US) offices

• Influence, critical thinking and the ability to produce across your team and beyond

• Mentor team members

• Provide oversight and accountability for technical decisions.

Who You Are

• 10+ years Software Development work experience (Java experience with Spring strongly preferred)

• 5+ years designing, developing and supporting Cloud-Native distributed systems in a high transactional environment.

• Hands on experience building Microservices architecture, applying design patterns and developing frameworks

• Excellent coding skills along with applying Dev testing practices consistently throughout the software development life cycle process (UT, FT)

• Experience in developing distributed system and cloud native solution with technologies (such as services in AWS)

• Experience in developing event driven systems using messaging platforms (Kafka, RMQ, SQS, etc)

• Extensive experience in using open-source technologies: Proficiency in programming languages (Java, etc), frameworks (Springboot, etc), No-SQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra), Elastic Search, Graph QL, Caching (Redis, Aerospike), using containers e.g. Docker (K8, EKS etc) at scale.

• Good exposure to development tools, Git, Jenkins, code review tools & introducing best coding practices.

• Good to have experience in web UI development based on JavaScript and frameworks, such as React.js (preferred, but not mandatory)

• Strong hands-on experience in enabling a CI &CD pipeline, canary deployments, blue green deployments in production.

• Work with the support team to define how the applications are supported in production, including system performance tuning and monitoring & alerting (Splunk, Datadog, etc)

• Practiced API first approach

• Have a strong knowledge of threading, concurrency, security, privacy, scaling, resilient, and high availability.

• Able to develop and maintain strong relationships with both internal and external customers. Are comfortable with collaboration, open communication and reaching across functional borders

• Practiced of Agile Software Development mechanics.

• Ability to lead code reviews and technical design meetings

• Ability to articulate technical design decisions and software implementation in technical forums. Have the ability to communicate and defend your ideas clearly

• Experience building your own automation and reporting tools to provide capabilities around your service

• Is self-motivated and can get things done with ownership.

• Stay current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education

• Solid experience of software development technologies, techniques, and phases - Estimation, Scheduling, Design, Development, Testing and Delivery, and Maintenance.

About Expedia Group

Expedia Group (NASDAQ: EXPE) powers travel for everyone, everywhere through our global platform. Driven by the core belief that travel is a force for good, we help people experience the world in new ways and build lasting connections. We provide industry-leading technology solutions to fuel partner growth and success, while facilitating memorable experiences for travelers. Expedia Group's family of brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Vrbo®, trivago®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Hotwire®, Wotif®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Expedia Group™ Media Solutions, Expedia Local Expert®, CarRentals.com™, and Expedia Cruises™.

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