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. We’re building a more open world. Join us.
Software Development Engineer III
Meet the Team!
The Air Connectivity Organization at Expedia Group is seeking an experienced backend developer passionate about building robust, scalable, and high-performance applications that help millions of people plan their travels and create lifelong memories. Join us as we revolutionize the travel industry!
The Air Connectivity Organization at Expedia Group is at the forefront of innovation in the travel industry. We leverage our cutting-edge, in-house platform to seamlessly integrate with airlines worldwide, delivering exceptional travel experiences to millions of users annually. Through APIs that adhere to NDC standards, we enable travelers to access top-tier content, enjoy an immersive ticket shopping experience, and add convenient ancillaries to their journeys with ease.
We are part of the partner connectivity platform that serves as the backbone of Expedia’s business, powering an efficient two-way marketplace that bridges supply and demand. Leveraging diverse integration methods—ranging from direct connections to NDC and GDS sourcing—our platform processes over 50 Tier-1 services and generates more than 8TB of data each month. Built with modern technologies like Java, Kotlin, Spring, MSSQL, DynamoDB, and Redis, our ecosystem supports millions of travelers in finding the best travel products tailored to their needs.
What Sets Us Apart
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Global Scale: We operate a platform that impacts millions of users worldwide, making air travel more accessible, seamless, and personalized.
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Innovation-Driven: We thrive on solving complex challenges, continuously improving our technology stack, and staying ahead in the fast-paced travel industry.
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Collaborative Culture: Our geographically distributed team is empowered to drive high-priority initiatives independently while fostering a culture of collaboration, inclusivity, and shared success.
If you’re passionate about creating transformative solutions, tackling large-scale engineering challenges, and shaping the future of air travel, we’d love to have you on our team. Join us, and let’s redefine the way the world travels together!
What You'll Do
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Lead design and implement products and solutions that are highly scalable with high-quality, clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.
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Find opportunities for process and technology improvements, and work towards adoption and implementation.
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Assist with supporting Production systems (includes investigating issues and working towards resolution)
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Exercise creativity and provide alternative solutions to a given problem removing roadblocks and driving issues to closure
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Create/update documentation for the purpose of sharing knowledge between team members
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Actively participate in group technology reviews to critique the work of self and others
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Participate and formulate user story creation in partnership with the team, product managers.
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Closely collaborate with Senior and Principal Developers, as well as the Product Manager, to find effective solutions to problems.
Who You Are
- Bachelor's or Master’s in a related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience
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4+ years of experience with Bachelor's degree or 3+ years with Master’s degree
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A high performing individual contributor who acts as a mentor to more junior engineers, applies new engineering principles to improve existing systems, and is responsible for complex, well-defined projects.
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Worked on projects based on Java or Kotlin
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Good understanding of OOPS Concepts, SOLID Principles, Domain driven design systems.
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Designed and Create REST APIs for your projects
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Demonstrates the ability to select among technology available to implement and solve.
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Able to understand and design moderately complex systems
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Implemented code that uses both relational and non-relational data stores. You understand the difference between a data store and a cache and have experience using both
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Have a solid understanding of code promotion, CI/CD methodologies, and using Git for source control. Splunk / Datadog integration for logging / metrics
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Experience with cloud-computing platforms such as Amazon Web Services
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Understanding of testing and monitoring tools
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Ability to debug applications
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Have experience working in an agile team environment conducting code walkthroughs, peer reviews, and producing user documentation
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Maintained projects in production environments (bug fixing, troubleshooting, monitoring etc.)
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Understanding how teams’ goals fit a business need.
The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $137,500.00 to $192,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $220,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.
Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.
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.
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™. © 2024 Expedia, Inc. All rights reserved. Trademarks and logos are the property of their respective owners. CST: 2029030-50
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Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.
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