Senior Software Development Engineer (Back-end)

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Senior Software Development Engineer (Back-end)

Sector: Travel and Tourism
Role: Senior Executive
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time

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.

Introduction to the Team
Expedia Product & Technology builds 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 for the traveler and our partners that drive loyalty and customer satisfaction.

What you’ll do:

• You will successfully conduct day-to-day work and solve complex issues in your own specific technical engineering area, sharing domain and industry knowledge between cross-functional teams and serving as a guide to junior engineers.
• You will partner with the business to understand how your technology stack is tied to business outcomes and advise on technical limitations of software design for products.
• You will possess knowledge of features for integration and communication among applications, databases, and technology platforms.
• You will creatively test and maintain software applications following design requirements.
• You will take technical responsibility for the health of the codebase, including quality, scalability, and performance.
• You will analyze issues and implement holistic solutions by ensuring linkages between structure, people, process, and technology are made.

Who you are:

• Bachelor's degree or Master’s in a related technical field; or experience driving technical design end to end in at least 2 multi-quarter projects.
• 8+ years of Software Development experience (Java or Kotlin preferred) with a focus on backend development.
• Ability to identify business problems and design easily testable solutions.
• Able to understand and design moderately complex systems and guide integrations across teams.
• Strong understanding of testing and monitoring tools and technologies.
• Ability to establish operational excellence metrics at the team level.

On-Call Requirement: This position requires the employee to be on-call outside of regular working hours. On-call duties encompass:

• Responding to emergencies or incidents as they arise.
• Providing prompt support and solutions.
• Participating in on-call rotations, including nights, weekends, and bank holidays.
• Remaining reachable by phone or other communication methods at all times during on-call periods.

Accommodation requests: If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team.

We are proud to be named as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2024 and recognized for our award-winning culture.

Company

Who we are

We are travelers and technologists. We work across time zones, cultures, and languages. We thrive on breaking things down and building them back up again until they're even better.

We believe travel is a force for good, and we take our roles seriously.

Accommodations and adjustments

We’re committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience for candidates with disabilities.

We're a diverse company, that feels like a community

When you join Expedia Group you become part of a global network of passionate travelers and technologists. Everyone is welcome here.

We’re a truly global company, with offices on almost every continent. Our hybrid working policy empowers our employees to enjoy remote working while staying connected.

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