Software Development Engineer II

Expedia • Seattle, WA

4d • $119,000 - $166,500

About The Position

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. We’re building a more open world. Join us. Software Development Engineer II As part of Expedia Group’s InsurTech organization, you’ll help build the technology that protects millions of travelers around the world. Our team owns the end-to-end insurance platform that powers trip protection products across Expedia, Hotels.com , Vrbo, and our global partner network. We design and deliver highly scalable, event-driven services that handle real-time pricing, policy issuance, claims integrations, and compliance in dozens of markets. As an SDE2, you will work on critical, customer-facing systems with a strong focus on reliability, performance, and quality. You’ll collaborate closely with product, data, and partner teams to ship features from design through production, contribute to technical designs, and raise the bar on engineering best practices (testing, observability, CI/CD). InsurTech operates like a startup within Expedia Group: we value ownership, pragmatic problem solving, and a bias for action, while leveraging the scale, data, and platform capabilities of a global travel leader.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience.
• 2+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Professional software engineering experience building, testing, and shipping production-quality services or applications.
• Experience owning components or services in a distributed system, including responsibility for quality, deployment, and operational health.
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language and in core computer science fundamentals such as data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented or functional design.
• Familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real world products.

Nice To Haves

• Experience designing and implementing service APIs, low-level system designs, and data models that support high-throughput, low-latency, or highly available use cases.
• Hands-on experience operating services at scale, including metrics-based monitoring, alerting, incident response, and continuous improvement of reliability and performance.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate across teams or domains, contributing reusable components, libraries, or patterns that can be leveraged in multiple products.
• Experience leveraging AI-assisted development, testing, or observability tools to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational excellence, and to safely integrate AI/ML‑enabled solutions in production environments.
• Exposure to incorporating AI/ML capabilities (e.g., recommendations, ranking, anomaly detection, or generative features) into services in partnership with specialists, including understanding constraints, tradeoffs, evaluation, and appropriate safeguards.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and deploy robust, secure, and maintainable services and applications using Expedia Group’s standard technologies, patterns, and engineering practices.
• Translate product and technical requirements into clean low-level designs, including API design and data modeling, ensuring performant, observable, and reliable integrations.
• Own the end-to-end lifecycle of the services or components you develop, including implementation, code reviews, quality validation, release, and ongoing operational support.
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and partners across teams to deliver reusable, scalable solutions that can be applied across multiple domains and business use cases.
• Instrument services for monitoring, logging, and metrics, participate in on-call or incident response as needed, and drive improvements in reliability, performance, and security.
• Work with AI-driven tools, workflows, and platforms to increase developer productivity and safely integrate and operate AI/ML‑enabled solutions that improve outcomes.

Benefits

• 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
• medical/dental/vision
• paid time off
• Employee Assistance Program
• wellness & travel reimbursement
• travel discounts
• International Airlines Travel Agent ( IATAN ) membership

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level