About Us:

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 manage bookings online.

Challenges you can work on:

• Create experiences seen by over 100 million people a month.
• Develop fast, scalable, highly available, and reliable web apps.
• Building component based web UI architectures with modern JavaScript libraries.
• Develop smart web apps that will allow for in-session personalization.
• Leverage real time user behavior data, predictive science and A/B testing to better understand our customers, fostering a community of trust to incrementally increase conversion, and have direct revenue impact from delivered code.
• Share your work with your peers in our bi-weekly meetup and participate in our Internal Open Source by delivering high quality code that levels up not only your team but the entire organization.
• Endless opportunities to grow your career the way you want.
• Help develop beautiful & intuitive user interfaces.
• Be at the forefront of building HomeAway’s next generation user experience.

Technologies we use:

Node.js, React.js, Backbone.js, Less, AWS, Docker, Linux, Jetty, Dropwizard, Java 8, Webpack, Git, Yeoman.

Requirements:

• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience developing highly available enterprise web applications with state of the art front end web technologies.
• Excellent communication skills with ability to work well cross-functionally across multiple department.
• An analytical problem solver that is passionate about delivering a high quality user experience.
• Mobile first responsive design experience.
• Cross-browser development & compatibility experience.
• HTML5, CSS3, and a CSS Pre/Postprocessor experience.

Responsibilities:

• Drive new features from inception to production, working across the company with product managers, UX designers and other stakeholders.
• Dedicated to delivering tested and optimized high performance code for a distributed SOA environment (our stack satisfies 10s of thousands of requests per second!).
• Create and maintain quality software using best-in-class tools: GitHub, Splunk, New Relic, Sonar and TeamCity.
• Work with QA, product management and operations in an agile environment.
• Participate in resolution of production issues and lead efforts toward solutions.
• Grow a performant production environment in a way that makes the system increasingly reliable.
• Opportunities to showcase your work on our tech blog and internal & external conferences.

Benefits:

• 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.