Software Development Engineer II

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 global hybrid work setup (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.

Role Summary

A supporting-level team member who is well-versed in basic principles of software engineering and work as a supporting player on complex projects and engages in discussion of new topics and feel empowered to challenge the status quo.

Expedia Group is seeking a talented Software Developer to join our checkout experience team in London. We are looking for someone passionate about technology, problem-solving, and out-of-the-box thinking to join us.

As a Software Development Engineer, your primary responsibility is to design, develop, document and thoroughly test your code. You will be working along with other SDEs on the software components of the microservices architecture-based application and you will be helping us in improving and enhancing our products daily. You will join a very experienced, successful, and high-performing cross-functional team. You will work on large-scale systems design and troubleshooting and be fluent in systems programming and/or automation. You will have a desire to tackle the complex problems of scale which are unique while using your expertise in coding, analysis and large-scale system design. You will get to expand your skills in developing high-quality, distributed and scalable software. You will learn best practices and will have a unique opportunity to grow to the next level.

• Build scalable design and architectures with modern frameworks
• Build end to end features spanning across front end and backend systems
• Demonstrate user behavior data and A/B testing to better understand our customers, fostering a community of trust to incrementally increase booking conversion rates.
• Develop features relying on driven data, microservices, and data science programming models
• Develop fast, scalable, highly available, and reliable apps.
• Translate designs and wireframes into high quality code
• Optimize components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browser
• Create and maintain quality software using best-in-class tools: Git, Splunk etc.
• 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.

• At least 1-2 years of development experience cross the stack
• Must have: willing to learn and explore full-stack development.
• Must have skills: ReactJS
• Good to have skills: Proficiency in Java/Kotlin or any other backend language and graphQL is a plus.
• Ability to learn quickly and work through the stack on multiple technologies with a get-it-done attitude.
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills.
• Communicate and work with distributed teams to drive towards results.
• Experience in Continuous Integration/Delivery is a plus.
• Relevant years of software development experience developing web services applications
• Comfortable collaborating on a multi-functional team including product management, architects, and UI designers
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum team environment
• Skilled in building RESTful APIs
• Ability to write clean & coherent code and follow established coding conventions.
• Knowledge/experience of CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Git, Docker, TeamCity, etc.) a plus.
• Experience at other fast-paced Internet companies, especially Travel companies, is a huge plus.

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.

Expedia Group's family of brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Vrbo®, trivago®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Hotwire®, Wotif®, ebookers®, CheapTickets