Software Development Engineer II

Introduction to the Team:

Price is a key factor influencing traveler’s path to driving a choice leading to a purchase.

In a world of infinite paths to purchase, travelers make multiple searches and to find the ‘best trip’ and ‘best deal’.

The Expedia Group Offers pillar is tasked with giving the customer a simple, clear, accurate, transparent pricing experience throughout their shopping and booking journeys.

We do this by putting the customer first, creating capabilities and experiences that can be shared and presented to the customer that meet the travelers’ expectations in locally relevant ways and adhere to regulatory norms.

Looking to join a team at the forefront of travel technology development?

We are looking for a Software Development Engineer II to join one of our teams, responsible for developing technology that helps millions of travelers to find the best hotel at the right time for their next unforgettable trip.

In this role, you will: 

• Collaborate with team members to co-develop and solve problems.

• Seek knowledge from subject matter experts when needed.

• Implement product features working as part of a multi-functional team and run what you build approach.

• Work in an agile team.

• Understand the importance of system and technology integration and the basic features and facilities involved in the integration process.

• Apply software design principles, data structures and/or design patterns and computer science fundamentals to write code that is clean, maintainable, optimized, modular with good naming conventions.

• Help coordinate stakeholder input and collaboration efforts when developing solutions to issues.

• Report clearly on current work status.
  
  You ask challenging questions when empowered to do so.

Experience and qualifications:  

• Bachelor's or Masters degree in a Technical field; or equivalent related professional experience

• Minimum 2 years of experience in backend development, with a strong command of Object-Oriented Programming concepts, data structures, and algorithms, in Kotlin/Java.
  
  

• Developing software in a team environment of at least 5 engineers (agile, version control, etc.

• Building and maintaining a software project/product in production environments in public/hybrid cloud infrastructure.

• Very passionate about learning, especially in the areas of technology, service design patterns and system architecture.

• Understanding of how projects fit together within your team.

• Able to understand moderately complex systems.

• Understanding of testing and monitoring tools.