Back-end Software Engineer II

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HomeAway, based in Austin, Texas, is the world leader in vacation rentals with more than 2 million unique places to stay in 190 countries, and is a part of the Expedia, Inc. family of brands. HomeAway offers an extensive selection of vacation rental homes that provide travelers with memorable experiences and benefits, especially more room to relax, for less than the cost of traditional hotel accommodations. The company also makes it easy for vacation rental owners and property managers to advertise their properties and run bookings online.

And Engineering? Well, we solve problems of scale and work on state of the art and open-source technologies. Our culture is one that strives on solving hard problems focusing on product engineering based on hypothesis testing to empower people to come up with ideas.

Challenges you can work on:

  • Scale our services to more than 60k RPS
  • Develop fast, scalable, highly available, and reliable payment engines that will process billions of dollars per year
  • Use realtime data to understand customers’ needs before they do
  • Dockerize our apps and services for cloud deployment
  • Develop features that will drive our business through real-time feedback loops
  • Develop a smart service layer that will allow for in-session personalization based off user behavior and data
  • Scale our public API to allow other partners to demonstrate HomeAway services & experiences on third party sites
  • Simplify core booking and listing workflow to improve our travelers & suppliers experience

Technologies we use: AWS, Docker, Mesos Dropwizard, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, Kafka, Hadoop, Samza, NoSQL, Java8

Required skills and experience:

  • BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
  • 3+ years of professional software development experience
  • Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to work well across multiple departments

Day to Day responsibilities can include:

  • Contribute to vigilantly creating, rewriting, refactoring, and perfecting code
  • Dedicated to delivering tested and optimized high performance code for a distributed SOA environment (our stack satisfies 10s of thousands of requests per second!)
  • Develop quality scalable, tested and reliable applications using industry standard methodologies
  • Work with QA, product management and operations in an agile environment
  • Create and maintain quality software using best-in-class tools: Git, Splunk, New Relic, Sonar and TeamCity
  • Participate in resolution of production issues and lead efforts toward solutions
  • Opportunities to showcase your work on our tech blog and internal & external conferences

Benefits & Perks:

  • 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
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Expedia Group has three offices in the Austin area with a 16-story building now open in the Domain.

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