20 Oct
Expedia.com
London
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.
Division and 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.
The Expedia Group Pricing 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.
The pricing platform supports millions of users every year in finding suitable travel products using technologies such as Java, Scala, Kotlin, Spring, MSSQL, DynamoDB, Redis, etc. We encourage experimentation with new technologies while maintaining a healthy balance between short- term and long-term goals. We deeply care about building a great experience to delight our customers. Our goal is to enhance every traveler's experience and make it better!
In this role, 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
- 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
- Creatively test and maintain software applications and related programs and procedures by using a variety of software development tools following the design requirements of the customer
- Report on the status of difficult or high-level projects to local tech leadership via written or oral means. Ensure documentation is complete
- Research and recommend frameworks and architectural/code design patterns and identify areas of improvement within the code and suggest solutions
- Advocate for operational excellence (such as unit testing, establishing SLAs, and programming for resiliency and scalability) and strive for optimum organizational efficiency by applying systems thinking across boundaries and making recommendations about policies/ processes
Experience and qualifications:
- You have experience formally mentoring at least 3 individuals and driving technical design end to end for at least 3 projects
- You have the ability to identify business problems at the project level and team level and design solutions that are easily testable and observable
- You are strong in multiple technologies or languages, and you are an expert in a given domain - (Scala, Kotlin, Java, AWS, Spring)
- You’re able to justify technology choices to technical and non-technical observers making well-defined technology choices
- You have the ability to establish operational excellence metrics at the team level and identify and advocate for project quality via testing, monitoring, and alerting at the project level
- You’re able to guide others in the design of software that is easily testable and observable
Accommodation requests
If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, or other physical or mental health conditions, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the Accommodation Request.
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.
Expedia Group's family of brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Vrbo®, trivago®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Hotwire®, Wotif®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Expedia Group™ Media Solutions,
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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.
▶️ Senior Software Development Engineer
🖊️ Expedia.com
📍 London