About Us:

Have you ever had the opportunity to impact the lives of millions of people in a meaningful way and help them enjoy time away with their friends and families building memories? 

That is what we do here at HomeAway.com, an Expedia Inc. company. We are the leading vacation rental website in the world with more than one million online bookable vacation rentals. Our mission is to make every vacation rental in the world available to every traveler in the world through our online marketplace and we're committed to helping families and friends find the perfect vacation rental to create unforgettable travel experiences together. 

The Opportunity:

Challenges you can work on:

• Create experiences seen by over 100 million people a month
• Develop fast, scalable, highly available, and reliable web apps
• Building component based web UI architectures with modern JavaScript libraries
• Develop smart web apps that will allow for in-session personalization
• Leverage real time user behavior data, predictive science and A/B testing to better understand our customers, fostering a community of trust to incrementally increase conversion, and have direct revenue impact from delivered code
• Share your work with your peers in our bi-weekly meetup and participate in our Internal Open Source by delivering high quality code that levels up not only your team but the entire organization
• Endless opportunities to grow your career the way you want
• Help develop beautiful & intuitive user interfaces
• Be at the forefront of building HomeAway’s next generation user experience

Technologies we use:

Node.js, React.js, Backbone.js, Less, AWS, Docker, Linux, Jetty, Dropwizard, Java 8, Webpack, Git, Yeoman

Requirements:

• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 6+ years of experience developing highly available enterprise web applications with state of the art front end web technologies
• Excellent communication skills with ability to work well cross-functionally across multiple department
• An analytical problem solver that is passionate about delivering a high quality user experience
• Mobile first responsive design experience
• Cross-browser development & compatibility experience
• HTML5, CSS3, and a CSS Pre/Postprocessor experience

Responsibilities:

• Provide hands on technical leadership and participate in architectural decision-making 
• Drive new features from inception to production, working across the company with product managers, UX designers and other stakeholders
• Dedicated to delivering tested and optimized high performance code for a distributed SOA environment (our stack
• satisfies 10s of thousands of requests per second!)
• Create and maintain quality software using best-in-class tools: GitHub, Splunk, New Relic, Sonar and TeamCity 
• Work with QA, product management and operations in an agile environment
• Participate in resolution of production issues and lead efforts toward solutions 
• Grow a performant production environment in a way that makes the system increasingly reliable
• Opportunities to showcase your work on our tech blog and internal & external conferences
• Conduct peer code reviews and act as a resource for junior developers

Benefits:

• Competitive health and insurance benefits
• Competitive salary
• Annual target bonus or commission
• Paid vacation and sick time
• Vacation rental on a yearly basis (taxable benefit)
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Free snacks and beverages
• Frequent company update talks with our leadership team
• Free listing on HomeAway.com
• Electric, adjustable stand-up desk
• Discounted Metro & Rail pass
• Casual dress code