Senior Software Development Engineer

Expedia; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000

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 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.

Price is a key factor influencing traveler’s path to driving a choice leading to a purchase. In a world of infinite paths to purchase, travelers make multiple searches to find the ‘best trip’ and ‘best deal’.

The Expedia Group Offers pillar is tasked with giving the customer a simple, clear, accurate, transparent pricing experience throughout their shopping and booking journeys. We do this by putting the customer first, creating capabilities and experiences that can be shared and presented to the customer that meet the travelers’ expectations in locally relevant ways and adhere to regulatory norms.

What you’ll do:

• You will successfully conduct day-to-day work and solve complex issues in your own specific technical engineering area, share domain and industry knowledge between cross-functional teams, and serve as a guide to others by helping junior engineers in their duties while reporting on the status of difficult or high-level projects to local tech leadership via written or oral means.
• You will partner with the business to have a clear understanding of how your own technology stack is tied to business outcomes and our bottom line, advising on technical limitations of software design for products and providing alternative solutions.
• You will possess knowledge of features and facilities for integration and communication among applications, databases, and technology platforms to bring together different components and form a fully functional solution to a business problem.
• You will creatively test and maintain software applications and related programs and procedures by using a variety of software development tools following design requirements of the customer.
• You will act as a spokesperson for software design best practices, research and recommend frameworks and architectural/code design patterns, identify areas of improvement within the code, suggest solutions, and advocate for operational excellence (such as unit testing, establishing SLAs, programming for resiliency and scalability).

You will take a whole systems approach to analyze issues and implement holistic solutions by ensuring that linkages between structure, people, process, and technology are made, and will strive for optimum organizational efficiency by applying systems thinking across boundaries and making recommendations about policies/processes.

Who you are:

• You have a 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 as part of a decentralized team and project, experience formally mentoring at least 3 individuals, and several contributions to the engineering community through a blog post, open-source contribution, tech talks, etc.
• You have 8+ years of Software Development work experience (Java or Kotlin experience strongly preferred) with a strong focus on backend development and solid experience working in high performance, highly available, and scalable services in cloud platforms.
• You have the ability to identify business problems at the project level and team level, design solutions that are easily testable and observable, making well-defined technology choices and being able to justify them to technical and non-technical observers. You also have a strong understanding of how team goals fit a business need.
• You're able to understand highly complex systems and design moderately complex systems and can guide integrations across teams within the business unit.
• You have a strong understanding of testing and monitoring tools and technologies and use this knowledge to identify and advocate for project quality via testing, monitoring, and alerting at the project level.
• You have the ability to establish operational excellence metrics at the team level.

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.