At Expedia Group, we help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time. As a global travel company powered by passionate people, trusted partnerships, and leading technology, we connect travelers, partners, and advertisers through our consumer brands, B2B network, and travel advertising business.
Here, you'll do meaningful work that helps millions of people discover, book, and experience travel with more ease, confidence, and joy. Our five Behaviors-Traveler First, Think Big, Operate with Excellence, Ownership Mindset, and Succeed Together-help foster a supportive environment where people can grow their careers and have the flexibility, benefits, and support to do their best work. Join us and build for travelers everywhere.
Senior Software Development Engineer
Introduction to team
Expedia Product & Technology builds 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 for the traveler and our partners that drive loyalty and customer satisfaction.
We, in the Expedia Group’s Strategic Partnerships and Affiliates Team, are building the next-generation, scalable B2B partnership platform that will power hundreds of thousands of demand partners across the industry ranging from big businesses to small bloggers and micro influencers in helping them recommend Expedia Group brands to their audiences and in the process grow their businesses. We aim to redefine the travel partnerships sector by building innovative partner tools and solutions that incorporates the new ways in which today’s travelers discover and shop travel products.
In this role, your expertise and passion for innovation, developing cutting-edge technology and implementing industry-leading solutions, will improve the experience of millions of travelers and travel partners each year. You will work with a geo-distributed, cross functional team of 20+ engineers designing and developing solutions for complex problems with a wide-reaching business impact.
In this role, you will:
Design, build, and maintain highly available, performant, and secure services and applications, including clear low-level designs, API designs, and data models that align with Expedia Group engineering standards.
Lead end-to-end development of complex features, writing high-quality, testable code and ensuring robust automated testing, CI/CD integration, monitoring, and alerting for the services you own.
Collaborate closely with product, design, and partner engineering teams to break down ambiguous business problems, define technical approaches, and deliver scalable solutions that can be reused across multiple domains.
Drive technical excellence within your team by performing deep code and design reviews, mentoring other engineers, and promoting best practices in reliability, observability, security, and performance.
Safely integrate and operate AI/ML‑enabled solutions that improve outcomes, including familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real world products where appropriate.
Own the operational health of your services in production, using data and metrics to guide improvements, reduce toil, and continuously enhance system resilience and customer experience.
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
8+ years of professional software development experience building and operating backend, full stack, or distributed systems at scale, including responsibility for at least one significant service or application in production.
Proven experience designing and implementing low-level designs, RESTful or gRPC APIs, and relational or NoSQL data models, with strong proficiency in at least one modern programming language and associated frameworks.
Demonstrated ownership of the full software development lifecycle (design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operations), including experience with CI/CD pipelines, code quality practices, and production monitoring.
Familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real world products, with an understanding of how to integrate such capabilities safely and effectively into existing systems.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience leading the technical design and delivery of complex, multi-service or domain-spanning features, including making architecture decisions that balance scalability, performance, security, and cost.
Hands-on experience operating large-scale, high-traffic systems in production, including incident response, root cause analysis, performance tuning, and systematic reliability improvements using data and metrics.
Track record of driving engineering excellence within a team or domain, such as evolving service architectures, improving API and data model designs, strengthening observability, or raising code quality standards.
Practical experience integrating AI/ML‑enabled capabilities into production services (for example, ranking, recommendations, personalization, or decision support), including safe data usage, model integration patterns, and monitoring model impact on key business and user metrics.
Familiarity with multiple technology stacks and cloud-native services, enabling you to contribute across different domains or layers of the stack and to influence technical direction for cross-team initiatives.
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About Expedia Group
Expedia Group includes three flagship consumer brands - Expedia, Hotels.com, and Vrbo - along with a leading B2B travel business and travel advertising offerings. Across our brands and business, we help travelers explore the world with confidence and ease.
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Equal Opportunity
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.
