Software Development Engineer II - Full Stack

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 global hybrid work setup (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 

The Expedia Group Experimentation Platform team is responsible for building the systems and tools used across the company to implement the scientific method at enterprise scale. Our customers include Product Managers, Engineers and Analysts who use our tools to design and validate experiments that affect the millions of travelers and partner organizations using our brands and platforms daily. 

Understanding and measuring the outcome of changes within our products is fundamental to the success of our business. The Experimentation Platform, working closely with our analytics partners, ensures we follow good scientific practices in order to drive positive outcomes across our products and services. 

In this role, you will:  

• Collaborate with team members to co-develop, solve problems and build new technical expertise in a specific engineering area 

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

• Develop and test standard software applications and related programs and procedures to ensure they meet design requirements 

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

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

• Execute tasks and/or provide data to support implementation of holistic solutions that forge linkages between structure, people, process and technology 

• Apply formal training methods to current workload.  You feel comfortable challenging authority/the status quo 

Experience and qualifications: 

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a technical field; or equivalent related professional experience 

• Equivalent experience includes: 

• 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 

• Understanding of the fundamentals of microservice architecture and RESTful web services 

• Strength in Java/Kotlin, Familiarity to Node.js or React 

• Familiarity with Kafka, Spring, AWS, Hive, Spark, Docker, GraphQL or Elastic Search 

• Experience with JavaScript development, demonstrating a good understanding of the language 

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