Software Development Engineer II

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Software Development Engineer II

At Expedia Group (EG), we are revolutionizing travel through technology. Every second of every day, we send travelers on a trip. We sell enough tickets to fill nearly six hundred 737 airplanes every day, and our mobile apps have been downloaded more than 10 million times across 180 countries. We work in a fast-paced environment to keep up with the travel evolution landscape. The opportunities to inspire travel for the global customer are endless.

The Reservation team is responsible for booking and servicing reservations originating from all point of sales in EG. The platform is developed on a microservices architecture and runs in the cloud leveraging Amazon Web Services. This role will be contributing to our key initiative to make the reservation platform easily extensible for product servicing as well as ensuring it is a highly scalable and resilient platform.  The Reservations team is looking for someone who will deliver automated solutions to create a highly available ecosystem to power the Reservations Platform.

What’s in it for you?

Beyond travel perks and other competitive benefits, you can walk away from work each day knowing you truly made an impact. You can create a new feature that goes on the live site. You can build programs that simplify our backend search and supply processes. This and more can be achieved, all while working alongside thoughtful, hardworking, technical people who love travel to their core.

What you will do:

• Participate as part of team that will have developers of all levels of experience, setting up a great environment for continuous learning
• Apply software design principles, data structures and/or design patterns, and computer science fundamentals to write clean, maintainable, optimized, and modular code with good naming conventions
• Adopt cloud and serverless technologies, push for good design practices, while finding opportunities to simplify and scale
• Debug, test, deploy and manage the lifecycle of code along with your team
• Develop cloud-native solutions to continuously harden our platform and cloud infrastructures to create resilient, fault tolerant, highly available systems
• Drive platform engineering features and be an enthusiast for a DevOps environment across the organization in the pursuit to be operationally better every day

Who you are:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical fields; or Equivalent related professional experience
• 3+ years of backend software engineering experience
• Backend developer (familiarity with Java stack a plus) to deliver highly resilient and scalable solutions with a drive towards quality
• Experience with development in AWS or similar cloud platforms. Preferred: AWS Lambda, ECS, EC2, S3, RDS, Kubernetes
• Have experience working with Datastores in AWS. No preference, but Aurora and SQL server are a plus
• Familiarity with volume transactional systems, microservice design, or data processing pipelines (Docker, Kafka, Kinesis, Spark, or similar)
• Experience with continuous delivery, automated deployments, and related engineering practices
• Agile practitioner, able to deliver products iteratively, with strong ability to learn and adopt new technologies
• Embrace change, always open to replacing what you built yesterday with something better today
• Strong interpersonal skills as well as strong problem-solving and analytical skills

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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