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:

As part of the Digital Platform Engineering Team, you will have a unique opportunity to develop software solutions that capture data in real-time from a variety of sources and make data available programmatically to multiple stakeholders ranging from data scientists to business teams to end customers. You will be working on cutting-edge technologies to solve problems of scale and speed.

Responsibilities:

• Develop services to collect, enrich, and persist information on stream and Big Data platforms 
• Work closely with product engineers to design and build scalable data pipelines and data processing modules
• Design and implement high-performance data models in NoSQL database technologies
• Develop and configure resilient batch and real-time data processing jobs
• Dockerize apps and microservices for CI/CD deployment
• Participate in resolution of production issues and lead efforts toward solutions
• Develop and maintain high-quality software using best-in-class tools: Git, Splunk, New Relic, Datadog, Qubole, and Jenkins

Qualifications:

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent
• 5+ years of development experience including at least 2+ years working with Big Data technology
• Expertise developing in Java, Scala, or other JVM-based languages
• Experience with of all aspects of data systems including data modeling, ETL, aggregation strategy, and performance optimization
• Deep understanding of OOP/OOD programming principles
• Experience developing RESTful API services 
• Experience includes building high performance, distributed systems, and solving web-scale data engineering challenges
• Proven technical lead using technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, Cassandra (or other NoSQL database), Elasticsearch, Java, Scala, Hive, and Kafka
• Experience developing stream processing frameworks such as Samza, Storm, Spark Streaming, or Kafka Streams is a plus

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.