Expedia Group jobs - Software Developer II

We believe travel enriches our lives and connects us to each other. Our Expedia Flights team is dedicated to building experiences that help travelers like you go places and makes our world more connected. We are a global team with representation in the United States, Mexico, Australia and India. Our Flights Shopping Platform is one of the largest in the world serving over 150 million queries a day and powering some of the strongest brands in the industry like Orbitz, Expedia, Travelocity, Wotif, Hotwire and ebookers. Expedia disrupted the airline industry with its flight shopping and booking technology 20 years ago. We always want to “be the place travelers choose to explore and book flights for a trip” and are looking for talent to join us and build technology and experiences that power these.

We want you to bring your techie skills to our agile environment as we move from revolutionizing the web to redefining the mobile travel experience. From the back-end supply and database functions, to new user-interfaces for our more than 140 branded travel sites, there is no shortage of technical innovation.

What's in it for you? Beyond travel perks and other competitive benefits, you can walk away from work each day knowing you truly made an impact. You can create a new feature that goes on the live site. You can build programs that streamline our backend search and supply processes. You can help localize content and systems globally. And you can do this all while working alongside smart, passionate techies who love travel to their core.

What You Will Do

• Design, develop, debug and modify web services within flights’ microservices stack

• Write clean code utilizing object-oriented design principles, data structures and algorithms
• Create and maintain Spring based Java services and components that interact within and outside of Expedia ’s technical stack.
• W rite automated unit, integration and acceptance tests as appropriate to support our continuous integration pipelines
• Performance and load test services and components you write from scalability and resiliency standpoint
• Practice resilience engineering for every frontend/backend component you build and evangelize resilience within the team

• Support and maintain the flights services and microservices stack
• Collaborate with Product team, architects and peer engineers
• Help design and build reusable frameworks and libraries to simplify development
• Participate in peer code reviews and advocate for best coding practices and principles
  
  

Who You Are

You are not only skilled at programming but an excellent communicator with a bias for action. You have focus and strong sense of ownership. Over time you will grow into a key technical resource capable of full stack development as well as driving cross-team design and architecture reviews.

• You are a voracious learner, especially in the areas of technology, service design patterns and system architecture.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline or equivalent experience

• 2-3 + years full-stack software development experience across multiple technologies, languages and frameworks
• Exce llent coding skills in Java / JavaScript and proficiency with HTML , XML and JSON
• Experience working with Rest APIs and familiarity with development of services using Spring Boot on Cloud (e.g. AWS)
• Experience working around Apache Tomcat, Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Docker, Gradle
• Experience using code versioning tools for e.g . Git.

• Good communication and ability to explain technical details and challenges to a variety of audiences
• E xperience with Agile development methodology
• Experience around GraphQL and Kotilin is a huge plus
• Flexible in learning and understanding both front-end as well as back-end services
• Ability to work in a diverse organization with global, decentralized teams working across multiple locations
  
  

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.

If you have a hunger to make a difference with one of the most loved consumer 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®, 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 ®.

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.

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, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.