Senior Software Development Engineer

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 global hybrid work setup (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey

Were building a more open world

Join us

If you want to be a pioneer and build a highly available and scalable Checkout platform that all travel marketplaces can adopt then this is the role for you

At Expedia Group, our purpose is to bring the world within reach for every traveler, Core Services Checkout team is building API first platform and you can be the leader in that journey

Senior Software Development Engineer

The Senior SDE lead strategy, design, architecture and execution along with the team

Will work across various tech stakeholders, product, and platform teams

We are looking for a strong technology leader with the ability to balance innovation and experimentation of new approaches, with an execution focus on key existing tech drivers

What Youll Do

Extends outside of direct organization and collaborate with peers across a senior level organization

Leads a community of practice and bring people together for shared learning

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

Conducts successfully day-to-day work and solves complex issues in own specific technical engineering area

Shares domain and Industry knowledge between cross-functional teams

Serves as a guide to others by sharing and helping junior associates in their duties

Is known to fill in for peer engineering management as need arises

Possesses knowledge of features and facilities for integration, and communication among applications, databases and technology platforms to bring together different components and form a fully functional solution to a business problem

Tests and maintains software applications and related programs and procedures by using a variety of software development tools following design requirements of customer

Acts as a spokesperson for software design best practices

Researches and recommends frameworks and architectural/code design patterns

Identifies areas of improvements within the code and suggests solutions

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

Advises on technical limitations of software design for products and provides alternative solutions

Facilitates collaboration with different stakeholders with varied perspectives to develop effective solutions to issues

Strives for optimum organizational efficiency by applying systems thinking across boundaries and making recommendations about policies/ processes

Takes a whole systems approach to analyze issues and implements holistic solutions by ensuring that linkages between structure, people, process and technology are made

Identifies outmoded methods of operation with current systems and design plans for disrupting them in a non-disruptive manner

Reports on status of difficult or high-level projects to local tech leadership via written or oral means

Ensures documentation is complete

Experience

Who you are:

8+ years for Bachelor's

6+ years for Master's

Education

Worked in at least in 2 multi-quarter projects

Worked in decentralized teams and projects

Formally mentored at least 3 individuals

Drove technical design end-to-end of at least 3 projects

Contributed to engineering community through a blog post, open source contribution, tech talks, etc Functional/ Technical Skills

Has strength in multiple technologies or languages

Justifies technology choices to technical and non-technical observers

Serves as an expert for a given domain

Makes well defined technology choices

Mentors other engineers (Individual Contributor I, II, III)

Creates team project systems

Guides integrations across teams within business unit

Understands highly complex systems and design moderately complex systems

Identifies and advocates for project quality via testing, monitoring and alerting at the project level

Has a strong understanding of testing and monitoring tools and technologies

Establishes operational excellence metrics at the team level

Guides others in design of software that is easily testable and observable

Has a strong understanding of how team goals fit a business need

Identifies business problems at the team level and provide solutions

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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