Software Development Engineer 2- Full Stack developer

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

Introduction to the 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:

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

• Proactively reaches out to meet peers across environment and collaborates to solve problems.

• Design, develop, test and deploy software that spans both frontend and backend components (web UI, REST/GraphQL APIs, data layer)

• Takes advantage of opportunities to build new technical expertise in a specific engineering area.

• Seeks knowledge from subject matter experts when needed.

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

• Develops and tests standard software applications and related programs and procedures to ensure they meet design requirements.

• Applies 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.

• Applies knowledge of database design to solve data requirements.

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

• Thinks broadly and understand how, why and when policies/processes are standardized and when they differ across the organization.

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

• Applies formal training methods to current workload. Feels comfortable challenging authority/the status quo.

• Reports clearly on current work status.

• Asks challenging questions when empowered to do so.

Experience and Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

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

• 3+ years of relevant experience (or 0-2 years with a Master's degree).

• Experience developing software in an agile team environment using version control.

• Experience building and maintaining software in production on public or hybrid cloud infrastructure.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proficiency in one programming language and moderate familiarity with other applicable languages.

• Familiarity with various data stores, API access patterns, and systems integration.

• Experience with software testing and monitoring tools and practices.

• Proven ability to debug applications and understand moderately complex systems.

• Understanding of how team goals and technical projects align with business needs.
   

Accommodation requests

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