Software Development Engineer II (Pricing)

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.

Software Development Engineer II (Pricing)

Introduction to team:

The Traveler Business Team builds and drives growth for our global consumer businesses—Expedia, Hotels.com, and Vrbo. This division creates compelling and differentiated traveler value for each brand by setting the strategic vision, operating strategy, and plan. Responsibilities include investment allocation and prioritization, P&L accountability, and leading cross-functional teams across Expedia Group, who are all held accountable to a single scorecard. 

The Expedia Group Pricing Engineering team builds and maintains a world class Pricing Platform that drives our pricing strategy across EG Brands and partners.

In this role, you will:

• Design and implementation of next-generation micro services using Java, Scala, Kotlin, Spring Boot, Python, Spark

• Prototype solutions quickly, researching new technologies, where applicable and collaborate to implement the technical vision

• Work closely with geographically distributed teams and collaborate with cross team leads to define, implement, and consume services/components/modules

• Design and implement products and solutions that are highly scalable with high-quality, clean, maintainable, and well-documented code across the full technology stack

• Work collaboratively with all members of the technical staff and other partners to build and ship outstanding software in a fast-paced environment

• Find opportunities for process and technology improvements, and work towards adoption and implementation

• Assist with supporting Production systems (includes investigating issues and working towards resolution)

• Exercise creativity and provide alternative solutions to a given problem removing roadblocks and driving issues to closure

• Create/update documentation for the purpose of sharing knowledge between team members

• Actively participate in group technology reviews to critique the work of self and others

• Collaborate with Pricing Business, Strategy and program teams to deliver world class pricing systems, by understanding business needs and translating them to technology solutions

Experience and qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's in computer science, Communication Systems or related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience

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

• Proficiency in Java, Scala, Spring, Spring Boot, and strong Java programming skills

• Proficient with Object Oriented Programming concepts with a strong understanding of Data Structures, Algorithms, and Computer Science fundamentals

• Experience working with Spark advantageous

• Experience with cloud-computing platforms such as Amazon Web Services

• Understanding of testing and monitoring tools

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