Senior Software Engineer - Search

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HomeAway, a world leader in the vacation rental industry, is the place to book beach houses, cabins, and condos with more than two million places to stay in 190 countries. The site makes it easy to find and book the perfect vacation rental for any getaway, often for less than the cost of traditional hotel accommodations. HomeAway is part of the Expedia Group family of brands.

The Opportunity:

The Search Service is at the core of our traveler experience, helping users find the most relevant listings for their travels. Our biggest challenge is to algorithmically pick the top 50 results, sometimes out of thousands, that we believe a traveler is most likely to book. To solve this problem, we employ data mining techniques to A/B test and productize models that predict booking outcomes and optimize our sort. 

Join the team if you are interested in working on a high performance, highly available system that is central to helping travelers find the best property for their trip!

What You’ll Do:

  • Write code! This role requires a highly skilled software engineer who is comfortable in an agile environment.
  • Build highly scalable solutions for the cloud. 
  • Provide extraordinary customer support to internal software engineers.
  • Use A/B testing approaches to improve the quality and performance of property searches at HomeAway.

Responsibilities:

  • Provide hands on technical leadership and participate in architectural decision-making 
  • Own new features from design to production release 
  • Dedicated to delivering tested and optimized high performance code for a distributed SOA environment
  • Create and maintain quality software using best-in-class tools: Git, Splunk, New Relic, Sonar, TeamCity, DataDog, Jenkins, etc.
  • Work product management and operations in an Agile environment
  • Participate in resolution of production issues and lead efforts toward solutions 
  • Opportunities to showcase your work on our tech blog and internal & external conferences
  • Participate in our inner-source culture (Internal Open Source) by delivering high quality code that levels up not only your team but the entire organization
  • Conduct peer code reviews and act as a resource for junior developers

Requirements:

  • Development experience with Java Web Applications, Service-Oriented Architecture, and Micro-Services
  • BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years of professional software development experience
  • Excellent communication skills with ability to work well cross-functionally across multiple departments
  • You have experience with Elasticsearch

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
  • Electronic, adjustable stand-up desk
  • Discounted Metro & Rail pass
  • Casual dress

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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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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