Expedia

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 Vrbo, an Expedia Group 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. We're committed to helping families and friends find the perfect vacation rental to create unforgettable travel experiences together.

Vrbo's Booking Services team is looking for hardworking software engineers wanting to get involved in one of the most important and complex spaces in all of Vrbo. Our goal is to build out an elite team of engineers, focused on developing customer centric eCommerce solutions for partners and travelers on the Vrbo marketplace. Together, building the future of Vrbo by solving complex business ideas with state of the art technology.

We are a services team, creating and maintaining large distributed systems globally at scale. As a member of the team, you will be at the forefront of our business strategy, building services that support the travel industry strategies that continue to expand our global marketplace. If you are customer centric, open minded engineer that enjoys working in a data-driven agile environment, this is the job for you!

As a technology leader, you will be working closely with our business partners, designing products to enable travelers to have a premier eCommerce experience when booking through Vrbo. As a team, we will build highly performant services capable of booking millions of dollars an hour in near real time.

• Develop fast, scalable, highly available, and reliable services that book millions of dollars each hour
• Develop features that will drive our business to be the leading global marketplace for travelers and property managers.

What you’ll do:

• Commit to vigilantly rewriting, refactoring, and perfecting code.
• Deploy to production daily using CI/CD, test services and feature flags.
• Dedicated to delivering tested and optimized high-performance code for a distributed SOA environment.
• Develop quality scalable, tested and reliable applications using industry standard methodologies
• Work with product management and operations in an agile environment.
• Create and maintain quality software using best-in-class tools: Git, Splunk, New Relic, Datadog, Sonar and Jenkins.
• Participate in resolution of production issues and lead efforts toward solutions

Technologies we use:

• Java, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, Mongo DB, S3, AWS, Lambdas, Docker, Dropwizard, Kafka, New Relic, Datadog, Terraform.

Who you are:

• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of professional, post-college, software development experience with Java.
• You have excellent communication skills with the ability to work well across multiple departments.

Benefits & Perks:

• Competitive health and insurance benefits.
• Competitive salary.
• Annual target bonus or commission.
• Parental leave for up to 20 weeks (dependent on eligibility).
• Paid vacation and sick time.
• Employee Stock Purchase Program.
• Free snacks and beverages.
• Frequent company update talks with our leadership team.
• Free listing on Vrbo.com.
• Electronic, adjustable stand-up desk.
• Discounted Metro & Rail pass.
• Casual dress.

Why join us:

Expedia Group recognizes our success is dependent on the success of our people. We are the world's travel platform, made up of the most knowledgeable, passionate, and creative people in our business. Our brands recognize the power of travel to break down barriers and make people's lives better – that responsibility inspires us to be the place where exceptional people want to do their best work, and to provide them to tools to do so.

Whether you're applying to work in engineering or customer support, marketing or lodging supply, at Expedia Group we act as one team, working towards a common goal; to bring the world within reach. We relentlessly strive for better, but not at the cost of the customer. We act with humility and optimism, respecting ideas big and small. We value diversity and voices of all volumes. We are a global organization but keep our feet on the ground so we can act fast and stay simple. Our teams also have the chance to give back on a local level and make a difference through our corporate social responsibility program, Expedia Cares.

Our family of travel brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Egencia®, trivago®, HomeAway®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Wotif®, lastminute.com.au®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Hotwire®, Classic Vacations®, Expedia® Media Solutions, CarRentals.com™, Expedia Local Expert®, Expedia® CruiseShipCenters®, SilverRail Technologies, Inc., ALICE and Traveldoo®.

About Vrbo:

In 1995, Vrbo introduced a new way for people to travel together, pairing homeowners with families and friends looking for places to stay. We were grounded in one purpose: To give people the space they need to drop the distractions of everyday life and simply be together. Since then, we've grown into a global community of homeowners and travelers, with unique properties in 190 countries around the world. Vrbo makes it easy and fun to book cabins, condos, beach houses and every kind of space in between.

Vrbo is part of HomeAway and the Expedia Group family of brands and offers homeowners and property managers exposure to over 750 million visits to Expedia Group sites each month. To learn more, visit www.vrbo.com.

Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with 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.