Software Development Engineer III - Marketplace Technology

Expedia Group

1d • $146,000 - $204,500 • Hybrid

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 III - Marketplace Technology As a global leader in travel, Expedia Group helps millions of people every day go places and build lifelong memories. Marketplace Trust is a critical area of our business focused on making the experience for our customers and partners simple and easy to navigate while also driving the right marketplace behaviors and addressing experiences that are counter to building trust. We are a data-driven organization with an appetite to resolve the most difficult problems. If you are interested in being near the heart of the company - where the needs of travelers, partners, and the business intersect - than this position is for you! We utilize every data signal in the marketplace to build scalable and extensible systems to maximize positive outcomes across the platform. Our team is looking for excellent engineers who are highly collaborative and broad-minded problem solvers willing to build end-to-end solutions that enable the most trusted travel marketplace in the world.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field; or equivalent related professional experience
• 5+ years of experience in backend software development with a focus on scalable, distributed systems
• Professional, post-college software development in object-oriented language
• Java, Kotlin, Scala, Dropwizard, Spring, Node.js, React, GraphQL, Docker, Kafka, Cassandra, MongoDB, Hadoop, Qubole, Spark, DataDog, Splunk, AWS cloud

Nice To Haves

• Collaborative approach within and outside of your teams and strong interpersonal skills
• Eagerly share your knowledge and expertise, hungry to learn (and admit) what you don't know
• Demonstrated ability to select among technology options to implement and resolve for need in designing and building complex systems
• Commitment to technical excellence
• Experience building on cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) with sound architectural patterns and scalable, cost-efficient production quality systems
• Embrace change, always open to replacing what you built yesterday with something better today

Responsibilities

• Develop, debug, test, and document components of software applications and tools
• Apply software design principles, data structures and/or design patterns and computer science fundamentals to write code that is clean, maintainable, optimized, modular with good naming conventions
• Deconstruct large, complex problems into manageable and achievable milestones driving streamlined execution by the team, actively participating in code and design reviews
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to peers and more junior engineers, helping them overcome obstacles and have growth opportunities
• Team up with peers across the organization to build an understanding of cross dependencies and shared problem-solving
• Apply formal training methods to current workload and comfortable asking questions and challenging the status quo
• Take advantage of opportunities to build new technical expertise in a specific engineering area, seeking knowledge from domain specialists when needed

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, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey
• 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
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees