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.
Software Development Engineer II
Expedia Insurance and Assurance team is looking for a Software Engineer to build and maintain its ever-evolving scalable and performance platform. Our team wants the right candidate who enjoys building services from scratch, loves to challenge the status quo, simplify the architecture, who does not hesitate from taking initiatives, and loves to learn new technologies. Does this sound like you? Than read on! At Expedia, we are revolutionizing travel through the power of technology. Every second of every day, we send travelers on a trip. We sell enough tickets to fill nearly six hundred 737 airplanes every day, and our mobile apps have been downloaded more than 10 million times across 180 countries. Our teams are used to working in a fast-paced environment to keep up with the evolving travel landscape. The opportunities to inspire travel for global customers are endless. Our team helps customers by offering a range of products designed specifically to provide peace of mind and confidence when booking with Expedia. Come join our team to help us continue providing this service to our customers.
What you will do:
- Design, develop, debug, and modify web services for Insurance micro-services
- Write clean code utilizing object-oriented design principles, data structures, and algorithms
- Create and maintain Spring-based Java services and components that interact within and outside of Expedia’s technical stack
- Write automated unit, integration, and acceptance tests as appropriate to support our continuous integration pipelines
- Practice resilience engineering for every front-end and back-end component you build and evangelize resilience within the team
- Support and maintain the Insurance services and micro-services stack
- Collaborate with the Product team, architects, and peer engineers
- Help design and build reusable frameworks and libraries to simplify development
- Participate in peer code reviews and advocate for the best coding practices and principles
Who you are:
- You are a voracious learner, especially in the areas of technology, service design patterns, and system architecture
- At least a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- 2+ years of full-stack software development experience across multiple technologies, languages, frameworks. ML related technologies knowledge would be a plus
- Ability to collaboratively work with the team from inception through to completion and production deployment
- Excellent coding skills in Java/JavaScript 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
- Experience with Agile development methodology
- Flexible in learning and understanding both front-end as well as back-end services
- Ability to work in a diverse organization with global decentralized teams, working across multiple locations