Senior Software Development Engineer - Marketplace

Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.

Why Join Us?

To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.

We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a flexible work model (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. Were building a more open world. Join us.

Senior Software Development Engineer - Marketplace

Introduction to Team

Expedia Technology teams partner with our Product teams to create innovative products, services, and tools to deliver high-quality experiences for travelers, partners, and our employees. A singular technology platform powered by data and machine learning provides secure, differentiated, and personalized experiences that drive loyalty and traveler satisfaction.

Marketplace Trust is a critical area of our business focused on making the experience for our customers and partners simple and easy to navigate while also driving the right marketplace behaviors and addressing experiences that are counter to building trust.

We are a data-driven organization with an appetite to resolve the most difficult problems. If you are interested in being near the heart of the company - where the needs of travelers, partners, and the business intersect - than this position is for you! We apply every data signal in the marketplace to build scalable and extensible systems to improve positive outcomes across the platform.

Our team is looking for a high performing and influential individual contributor who leads by example while continuing to mentor junior engineers, interfaces consistently with tech leadership in the local organization, leads complex and vaguely-defined projects, and stretches into team leadership skills based on current projects.

In this role, you will:

• Lead and actively participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle, including the design, analysis, development, and deployment efforts for multiple enterprise applications projects to tackle sophisticated business problems

• Deconstruct large, sophisticated problems into manageable and achievable breakthroughs driving streamlined execution by the team

• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to peers and more junior engineers, helping them overcome obstacles and have growth opportunities

• Collaborate with EG leaders with vision to architect and build robust applications and thoughtfully choose relevant technologies to evolve EG travel platform

• Maintain, monitor and improve our solutions and systems with a focus on service excellence; apply industry standards and new technologies to improve efficiency, quality, and system performance

• Technologies we use: Java, Scala , Kotlin , Spring, Node.js, React, GraphQL , Docker, Kafka, Cassandra, MongoDB, Qubole , Spark, DataDog , Splunk, AWS cloud

Experience and qualifications:

• You have a Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent related professional experience

• You have 6 + years experience as a software developer

• You are proficient in Java

• You are a self-starter who is consistently looking to innovate and find ways to enhance our customers' experience, with ability to own solutions end to end

• You have a deep understanding of software design principles, algorithms and data structures and commitment to technical excellence

• You have e xperience building on cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) with sound architectural patterns and scalable, cost-efficient production quality systems

The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $173,000.00 to $242,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $277,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.

Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individuals knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.

Expedia Group is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to support employees and their families, including medical/dental/vision, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program. To fuel each employees passion for travel, we offer a wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and an International Airlines Travel Agent ( IATAN ) membership. View our full list of benefits .

Accommodation requests

If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, or other physical or mental health conditions, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the Accommodation Request .

We are proud to be named as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2024 and be recognized for award-winning culture by organizations like Forbes, TIME, Disability:IN, and others.

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