Software Development  Engineer II

Do you want to work on highly distributed systems and work with streaming data solutions? Do you like to challenge yourself and push to find unique ways of solving complex problems? Do you want to leverage state of the art technologies while building best-in-class software and leading the company into uncharted territory? Then you should join Expedia Group’s Property Status team.

The Property Status team goal is to compute whether a property should be live or not… and if not, clearly explain why not. This involves analyzing data from all over the company, enforcing minimum rules for properties, setting properties live (or not), and providing scalable API’s for retrieving information. The software you develop will control the live status for all of Expedia’s inventory. It will touch every property that onboards and consider every process or signal that needs to affect live status. Joining this team will place you in one of the most critical areas affecting the future growth of the company.

What you'll do:

• Challenges you can work on:

  • Develop fast, scalable, highly available, and reliable property status software that will control the live status for all of Expedia’s properties.

  • Scale our services to handle thousands of requests per second.

  • Use real-time data to understand performance and ensure system scalability.

  • Develop property status funnel features that will drive our business through real-time feedback loops.

  • Scale our public API’s to allow other partners to leverage new Expedia Group services.

  • Scale our private API’s to allow enhanced Expedia UI experiences.

  • Simplify our core property status workflow to enhance both our travelers’ & suppliers’ experience

• Technologies we use:

  • Java, Kotlin, AWS, Docker, Dropwizard, Kafka, Akka Streams, GraphQL, gRPC, Node.js, S3, Hadoop, Aurora, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Splunk, DataDog, Swagger, Mesos, Samza

• Responsibilities:

  • Building backend applications from concept to completion

  • Strong commitment to rewriting, refactoring and improving code

  • Delivering tested and optimized high performance code for a distributed SOA environment

  • Developing quality scalable, tested and reliable applications using industry best practices

  • Resolving problems and roadblocks as they occur with help from peers or managers - following through on details and driving issues to closure.

  • Defining, developing and maintaining artifacts like technical design or stakeholder documentation

  • Actively participating in user story creation, coding and design reviews

  • Supporting and troubleshooting data and/or system issues as needed

Who you are:

• 1-3+ years of experience in Software Engineering (Java experience strongly preferred)

• Bachelors or master’s degree, preferably in Computer Science or a related major, and/or equivalent work experience

• Experience using code versioning tools (Git or others)

• Demonstrated commitment to technical excellence - results oriented and self-managed

• Strong software development skills, including configuration management, issue tracking, estimation, Agile/Scrum methodology

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Excellent critical thinking skills

• Technical proficiency in Java, JSON/XML, web services and object-oriented design

• Experience working with AWS/Cloud infrastructure

• Experience with large distributed applications is a plus, as is building/operating highly available systems

• Exposure to various architectural patterns

Why join us:

Expedia Group recognizes our success is dependent on the success of our people.  We are a global 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 bring the world within reach – that responsibility inspires us to be the place where exceptional people want to do their best work and to provide them the 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. 

If you have a hunger to make a difference with one of the most loved brands in the world and to work in the dynamic travel industry, this is the job for you. 

Our family of travel brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Egencia®, trivago®, Vrbo®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Wotif®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Hotwire®, Expedia® Media Solutions, CarRentals.com™, Expedia Local Expert®, Expedia Cruises™ and SilverRail Technologies, Inc. For more information, visit www.expediagroup.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.