Job Description

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. Wexe2x80x99re building a more open world. Join us.Software Development Engineer IIAt 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 using 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.Whatxe2x80x99s 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 an environment for continuous learningApply software design principles, data structures and/or design patterns, and computer science fundamentals to write clean, maintainable, optimized, and modular code with good naming conventionsAdopt cloud and serverless technologies, good design practices, while finding opportunities to simplify and scaleDebug, test, deploy and manage the lifecycle of code along with your teamDevelop cloud-native solutions to continuously harden our platform and cloud infrastructures to create resilient, fault tolerant, highly available systemsDrive platform engineering features and be an enthusiast for a DevOps environment across the organization in the pursuit to be operationally better every dayWho you are:Bachelorxe2x80x99s degree in computer science or related technical fields; or Equivalent related professional experience2+ years of experience in Backend software engineering experienceBackend developer (familiarity with Java stack a plus) to deliver highly resilient and scalable solutions with a drive towards qualityExperience with development in AWS or similar cloud platforms. Preferred: AWS Lambda, ECS, EC2, S3, RDS, KubernetesHave experience working with Datastores in AWS. No preference, but Aurora and SQL server are a plusFamiliarity 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 practicesAgile practitioner, able to deliver products iteratively, with strong ability to learn and adopt new technologiesEmbrace change, always open to replacing what you built yesterday with something better todayStrong interpersonal skills as well as strong problem-solving and analytical skillsAccommodation requestsIf 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 .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 Expediaxc2xae, Hotels.comxc2xae, Expediaxc2xae Partner Solutions, Vrboxc2xae, trivagoxc2xae, Orbitzxc2xae, Travelocityxc2xae, Hotwirexc2xae, Wotifxc2xae, ebookersxc2xae, CheapTicketsxc2xae, Expedia Groupxe2x84xa2 Media Solutions, Expedia Local Expertxc2xae, CarRentals.comxe2x84xa2, and Expedia Cruisesxe2x84xa2. xc2xa9 2024 Expedia, Inc. All rights reserved. Trademarks and logos are the property of their respective owners. CST: 2029030-50Employment opportunities and job offers at Expedia Group will always come from Expedia Groupxe2x80x99s Talent Acquisition and hiring teams. Never provide sensitive, personal information to someone unless youxe2x80x99re confident who the recipient is. Expedia Group does not extend job offers via email or any other messaging tools to individuals with whom we have not made prior contact. Our email domain is @expediagroup.com. The official website to find and apply for job openings at Expedia Group is .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, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.

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