Senior Software Development Engineer

About the Position

At Expedia Group, we help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time. As a global travel company powered by passionate people, trusted partnerships, and leading technology, we connect travelers, partners, and advertisers through our consumer brands, B2B network, and travel advertising business.

Here, you'll do meaningful work that helps millions of people discover, book, and experience travel with more ease, confidence, and joy. Our five Behaviors-Traveler First, Think Big, Operate with Excellence, Ownership Mindset, and Succeed Together-help foster a supportive environment where people can grow their careers and have the flexibility, benefits, and support to do their best work. Join us and build for travelers everywhere.

Responsibilities

The Lodging Connectivity Organization at Expedia Group is seeking an experienced backend developer and a seasoned technologist with a passion for building robust, scalable, and high-performance applications that help millions of people plan their travels and create lifelong memories. Join us as we revolutionize the travel industry!

In this role, you will:

• Design, build, and evolve scalable, reliable services and software components, including system design, low-level design, API design, and data modeling to support customer-facing and platform experiences.
• Lead the technical design across domains and delivery of complex, multi-quarter initiatives across the 3PI supply system that support shopping, booking, servicing, and claims journeys.
• Take end-to-end ownership of complex features or services, from technical design through implementation, deployment, monitoring, and iterative improvement in production.
• Break down large, ambiguous business problems into clear technical solutions that can be reused across multiple domains and services, driving streamlined execution by the team.
• Write, review, and maintain high-quality, well-tested code while driving best practices in code quality, security, observability, resilience, and performance.
• Improve technical quality and operational excellence by reducing incidents, enhancing observability, and optimizing performance, reliability, and cost.
• Safely integrate and operate AI/ML-enabled solutions that improve traveler and business outcomes, applying AI-driven systems, tools, and workflows to production-grade software.
• Mentor and guide other engineers, sharing best practices in software engineering, testing, and architecture, and raising the overall engineering bar for the team.
• Partner with product, analytics, design, and engineering teams to apply data-driven decision making, define success metrics, and improve system health and user outcomes over time.
• Contribute to architectural direction by participating in design reviews, proposing improvements, leading communities of practice, and helping shape long-term technical strategy.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience.
• 10+ years of professional, post-college backend software development experience in an object-oriented language (e.g., Java, Kotlin, or similar).
• Proven experience owning end-to-end delivery for services or components - design, implementation, testing, deployment, and support - within a multi-service or multi-domain environment.
• Deep understanding of software design principles, algorithms, and data structures, with a strong command of core engineering practices including object-oriented design, testing, and version control.
• Hands-on experience designing and consuming APIs, working with data models and storage systems, and applying system design principles to build reliable, maintainable systems.
• Hands-on expertise with AI/ML frameworks and tools, and experience applying AI/ML concepts to real-world products.
• Experience building on cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) with sound architectural patterns and scalable, cost-efficient, production-quality systems.
• Strong communication skills and a highly effective collaborator - able to articulate ideas to teammates, peers, and leaders, support them with data, and incorporate others' feedback to find common ground.

Nice to Have

• Experience designing and evolving service and application architectures for high-traffic, distributed systems, including clear API contracts, data models, and low-level designs.
• Demonstrated track record driving technical direction for services or domains, making data-informed tradeoffs across scalability, reliability, performance, and cost.
• Experience with partner or third-party integrations, supply/inventory systems, or high-volume marketplace platforms.
• Strong focus on operational excellence, including monitoring, alerting, incident response, and continuous improvement of production systems and developer workflows.
• Experience leading cross-team technical initiatives or migrations, influencing engineering best practices across a domain, and guiding teams on effective and responsible use of AI-assisted development and testing tools.
• A self-starter who embraces change and is always open to replacing what you built yesterday with something better today.

We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Opportunity to work in a dynamic and innovative environment
• Collaborative and inclusive work culture
• Professional growth and development opportunities

About the Company

Expedia Group includes three flagship consumer brands - Expedia, Hotels.com, and Vrbo - along with a leading B2B travel business and travel advertising offerings. Across our brands and business, we help travelers explore the world with confidence and ease.

Equal Opportunity

Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or age.

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