Senior Software Development Engineer

Job description

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.

We’re building a more open world.

Join us.

Senior Software Development Engineer (Front-End )

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.

We’re building a more open world.

Join us.

Introduction to the Team

At Expedia, we believe in being thinker-doers - we are Makers.

We believe travel enriches our lives and connects us to each other.

Our Expedia Air Shopping Experience team is dedicated to building experiences that help travellers go places and makes our world more connected.

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 redefined 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.

Our team is looking for curious, empathetic, and creative problem solvers with the growth mindset.

We are a team of travel-loving makers, building a cutting-edge flights shopping platform using open-source technologies.

Our platform serves customers on desktop, tablet, and mobile devices on Expedia sites and through a variety of partners.

In this role, you will: 

• Lead & design for complex systems and UI features

• Partner with UX designers to identify and develop solutions for Experience and UX interactions.

• Partner with product and designers to identity and collect data to drive user research.

• Design and implement modular and scalable UI components, that can be shared across pages easily

• Recognize outmoded methods of operation with current systems and design plans for disrupting them in a non-disruptive manner.

• Facilitates collaboration with different stakeholders with varied perspectives to develop effective solutions to issues.

• Strives for optimum organizational efficiency by applying systems thinking across boundaries and making recommendations about policies/ processes

• Research and recommend frameworks and architectural/code design patterns.

• Identify areas of improvements within the code and suggests solutions

• Advocate for operational excellence (such as unit testing, establishing SLAs, programming for resiliency and scalability).

• Act as a spokesperson and develops prototypes to impact strategic thinking, not just execution.

• Share domain and Industry knowledge between own and cross-functional teams.

• Serve as a guide to others by sharing and helping junior associates in their duties.

• Effectively manage shifting priorities while providing guidance to team, product, and key stakeholders

• Extend outside of direct organization and collaborate with peers across a senior level organization.

• Lead a community of practice and bring people together for shared learning.

• Partner with the business to have a clear understanding of how own technology stack is tied to business outcomes and our bottom line

Experience and Qualifications: 

• 8+ years of experience building and developing distributed and complex software.

• Worked in at least in 2 multi-quarter projects.

• Worked in decentralized teams and projects.

• Formally mentored at least 3 individuals.

• Drove technical design end to end of at least 3 projects.

• Must-Have Skill: Strong mastery of front-end domain technology and ReactJS.

• Preferred, but not mandatory skills: Demonstrates strength in multiple technologies or languages - GraphQL, Kotlin is a plus.

• 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

• Justifies technology choices to technical and nontechnical observers

• Serves as an expert for a given domain.

• Demonstrates mastery of accessible markup and code.

• Makes well-defined technology choices

• Creates team project systems.

• Guides integrations across teams within business unit.

• Understands highly complex systems and designs moderately complex systems.

• Identifies and advocates for project quality via testing, monitoring and alerting at the project level, having strong understanding of relevant tools and technologies.

• Establishes operational excellence metrics at the team level.

• Possesses a strong understanding of how team goals fit a business need.

• Identifies business problems at the team level and provide solutions

• 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

•  Possesses recognized ability to fill in for peer engineering management as need arises.

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 .

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.

Required Skill Profession

Computer Occupations