Software Development Engineer III

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 team:

We're the Insurance team at Expedia Group, and we're on a mission to redefine how travelers experience peace of mind during their journeys. Whether it's trip protection, flight cancellations, or medical emergencies abroad, our goal is to deliver seamless, reliable, and intelligent insurance experiences across Expedia's suite of brands (like Expedia.com, Vrbo, Hotels.com, and more).
We work closely with different insurance suppliers to onboard their products into our systems and make them available to customers during various booking journeys — such as during checkout, post-purchase, and even through trip management pages. Our team ensures the right protection is offered at the right time, making travel safer and more confident for millions of users.

In this role, you will:

• Design, develop, debug, and modify web services for Insurance micro-services

• Lead, coordinate, and collaborate on multiple concurrent and complex cross-organizational initiatives

• Lead the end-to-end product life cycle from mid to large size projects: Design, development, testing, deployment, and providing operational excellence and support

• You contribute to advancing the teams design methodology and quality programming practices and mentor junior team members to adapt standard methodologies

• You find and advocate for industry standards and best practices in development methodologies, techniques, and technologies

• Innovate and implement new ideas to solve complex software problems and prototype creative solutions to enable product MVP’s

• Independently understand scheduling, cost constraints, and impact to other teams, and make resource and architectural trade-off based on those factors

• Anticipate and prevent problems and roadblocks, before they occur, and present technical issues and their impact to leadership

• Effectively build and maintain a network of key contacts across company, and use these contacts to achieve results

• Communicate and work effectively with geographically distributed cross functional teams

• Drive for continuous improvement in software and development process with agile development team

Experience and qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or master’s in computer science, information systems, engineering, or related technical fields; or equivalent related professional experience

• 5+ years of experience in the field of Software Engineering

• Demonstrated proficiency in most areas of the professional function, and in-depth specialization in some Effective verbal and written communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information clearly and concisely

• Experience in Agile/Scrum software development practices

• You are a voracious learner, especially in the areas of technology, service design patterns, and system architecture

• Ability to independently drive features from inception through to completion and production deployment

• Excellent coding skills in Java and proficiency with HTML, XML, and JSON. Nice to have, familiarity with ReactJS

• Experience working with Rest APIs and familiarity with the 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

• Ability to work in a diverse organization with global decentralized teams, working across multiple locations

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 Accommodation Request.

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®, Expedia Group™ Media Solutions, Expedia Local Expert®, CarRentals.com™, and Expedia Cruises™. © 2024 Expedia, Inc. All rights reserved. Trademarks and logos are the property of their respective owners. CST: 2029030-50

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