Software Development Engineer II

If you are interested in being central to growing some of the biggest brands in Travel and work with a team filled with passion and action to make things happen, then this position will challenge your leadership skills as you work with Senior Technology and Product leadership, build teams & help serve a group of engineers to accelerate to the future of online travel.

Experience Reliability Engineers at Expedia develop solutions and ensure reliability of products that touch millions of people every day around the globe. Our engineers seek some of the most sophisticated problems in the world of travel across various brands - Expedia, Vrbo,Hotels.comand others. We are looking for strong technical talent as well as a keen desire to deeply understand our products and services to push our technology forward with respect to functionality, performance, reliability, and scalability.

Work alongside the best and the brightest engineering talent in the industry. As a participant of the team, you'll estimate engineering efforts, design your changes, implement, and test your changes, push to live, and triage production issues. You need to be collaborative, and curious as we build new experiences and improve existing products powering the world's largest travel mobile apps and websites at a scale only a few companies can match.

What you will do:

• Collaborate with team members to co-develop and resolve problems

• Proactively take initiative to meet peers across environment and collaborate to resolve problems

• Take advantage of opportunities to build new technical expertise in a specific engineering area

• Seek knowledge from subject matter experts when needed

• Understand the importance of system and technology integration and the basic features and facilities involved in the integration process

• Develop and test standard software applications and related programs and procedures to ensure they meet design requirements

• Apply software design principles, data structures and/or design patterns and computer science fundamentals to write code that is clean, maintainable, optimized, modular with good naming conventions

• Apply knowledge of database design to resolve data requirement

• Help coordinate partner input and collaboration efforts when developing solutions to issues

• Think broadly and understand how, why and when policies/processes are standardized and when they differ across the organization

• Complete tasks and/or provides data to support implementation of comprehensive solutions that forge linkages between structure, people, process and technology. Innovation:

• Apply formal training methods to current workload. You feel comfortable challenging authority/the status quo

• Report clearly on current work status. Ask challenging questions when empowered to do so

Who you are:

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in a Technical field; or equivalent related professional experience

• Equivalent experience includes: Developing software in a team environment of at least 5 engineers (agile, version control, etc.) o Building and maintaining a software project/product in production environments in public/hybrid cloud infrastructure

• Strong coding skills in in an object-oriented programming language, like Java, Python or Ruby

• Hands-on experience with technologies like Spring, React, REST APIs, JSON, JavaScript

• Technical proficiency in developing high-performance, scalable web applications in distributed architecture SOA

• Exposure to Design Patterns, data structure and algorithms

• Familiarity in a couple data stores or API access patterns and integration

• Familiarity with cloud technologies like AWS, Azure, GCP and with monitoring tools like Datadog or NewRelic

• Understanding of how projects fit together within your team and how teams' goals fit a business need

• Able to understand moderately sophisticated systems

• Ability to test and monitor your own code

• Understanding of testing and monitoring tools

• Ability to debug applications

The total cash range for this position in Austin is $105,500.00 to $148,000.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $169,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.

Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.

Expedia Group is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to support employees and their families, including medical/dental/vision, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program. To fuel each employee’s passion for travel, we offer a wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and an International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership.View our full list of benefits.

Expedia iscommittedto creating an inclusive workenvironmentwith a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.