User Experience Engineer III

Expedia Group • Chicago, IL

2d • $136,000 - $190,500

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. User Experience Engineer III: Our Technology Team partners with teams across Expedia Group to create innovative products, services, and tools to deliver high-quality experiences for travelers, partners, and our employees. A singular technology platform powered by data and machine learning provides secure, differentiated, and personalized experiences that drive loyalty and traveler satisfaction. The Hotels.com Home Page engineering team owns the end-to-end Hotels.com homepage experience on desktop and mobile web, building the very first touchpoints travelers see when they land on the site. Partnering closely with UX design, product, data science, and advertising, the team brings new concepts to life—from personalized recommendations and favorites to banners, sales moments, and promotional placements. As front-end specialists, they focus on high-quality UI implementation, performance, and accessibility, wiring modern web components to backend APIs and services to create seamless, high-impact experiences. This is a highly collaborative, customer-obsessed group that iterates quickly and experiments often to make the homepage a best-in-class entry point into the Hotels.com ecosystem—if you’re excited about shaping what millions of travelers see first, we’d love for you to join us.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of Professional experience in front-end or UX engineering building production web applications, including ownership of at least one significant service, experience, or feature area from implementation through release and iteration.
• Proficiency with modern web technologies and frameworks used to implement UX designs, including component-based architectures, API consumption patterns, and data modeling for client-side state and rendering.
• Demonstrated ability to translate UX and visual design requirements into accessible, performant, and maintainable interfaces, using system design (LLD), API contracts, and front-end architecture patterns.
• Familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real world products, with the ability to safely integrate and operate AI/ML‑enabled UI features in collaboration with other engineering teams.

Nice To Haves

• Experience owning end-to-end UX implementation for complex user journeys or multi-surface experiences, including architecture decisions, tradeoff analysis, and collaboration across multiple services or domains.
• Depth in building and scaling design systems or shared component libraries, including extensible API design for components, robust data modeling for UI state, and governance for adoption across teams.
• Proven track record of using quantitative and qualitative data (experimentation, analytics, user research) to inform UX engineering decisions and iteratively improve experience quality and business outcomes.
• Strong focus on operational excellence for UX surfaces, including performance profiling, accessibility audits, observability for client behavior, and resilient error and degradation handling in production environments.
• Applied experience integrating AI/ML-powered capabilities into user interfaces (such as recommendations, personalization, or intelligent UI behaviors), including safely operating these solutions, monitoring their impact on users, and collaborating with data/ML teams on model-driven UX.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement high-quality user interfaces and interaction patterns that align with product requirements, design systems, accessibility standards, and performance goals across multiple surfaces and devices.
• Translate UX and visual design specifications into robust, reusable front-end components and patterns, including system design (LLD), API integration patterns, and data modeling needed to support UI behavior and state management.
• Collaborate closely with designers, product managers, and engineers to refine requirements, validate technical feasibility, identify tradeoffs, and deliver incremental, testable UX improvements backed by data and experimentation.
• Build, extend, and maintain shared UX frameworks, design systems, and tooling that enable consistency, efficiency, and fungibility across multiple domains and product areas.
• Apply strong front-end engineering practices, including automated testing, performance optimization, accessibility compliance, observability, and resilient error handling for UX flows at scale.
• Demonstrate familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real-world products, and safely integrate and operate AI/ML‑enabled solutions that improve user experience, personalization, and content relevance.

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