Software Development Engineer - III (Backend)

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.

Role Summary
A high performing and influential individual contributor who leads by example while continuing to mentor junior engineers, interfaces consistently with tech leadership in the local organization, leads complex and vaguely defined projects, and stretches into team leadership skills based on current projects.

Who you are:
5+ years for Bachelor's
3+ years for Master's
Education
•Developed software in at least 3 different languages.
• Maintained/ran at least 4 software project/product in production environments (bug fixing, troubleshooting, monitoring, etc.).
Functional/ Technical Skills
• Has strength in a couple languages and/or one language with multiple technology implementations.
• Identifies strengths and weaknesses among languages for particular use cases.
• Creates API's to be consumed across the business unit.
• Selects among technology available to implement and solve for need.
• Understands how projects/teams interact with other teams.
• Understands and designs moderately complex systems.
• Tests and monitors code at the project level.
• Understands testing and monitoring tools.
• Debugs applications.
• Tests, debugs, and fixes issues within established SLAs.
• Designs easily testable and observable software.
• Understands how teams goals fit a business need.
• Identifies business problems at the project level and provides solutions.

What you'll do:
• Proactively teams up with peers across the organization to build an understanding of cross dependencies and shared problem solving.
• Participates in a community of practice to share and gain knowledge.
• Continually seeks new technical skills in an engineering area.
• Shares new skills and knowledge with team to increase effectiveness.
• Demonstrates knowledge of advanced and relevant technology.
• Is comfortable working with several forms of technology.
• Understands the relationship between applications, databases and technology platforms.
• Develops and tests complex or non-routine software applications and related programs and procedures to ensure they meet design requirements.
• Effectively applies knowledge of 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.
• Effectively applies knowledge of databases and database design principles to solve data requirements.
• Effectively uses the understanding of software frameworks and how to leverage them to write simpler code.
• Leads/clarifies code evolution in code reviews.
• Brings together different stakeholders with varied perspectives to develop solutions to issues, and contributes own suggestions.
• Thinks holistically to identify opportunities around policies/ processes to increase efficiency across organizational boundaries.
• Assists with a whole systems approach to analyzing issues by ensuring all components (structure, people, process and technology) are identified and accounted for.
• Identifies areas of inefficiency in code or systems operation and offer suggestions for improvements.
• Compiles and reports on major operational or technical initiatives (like RCAs) to larger groups, whether via written or oral means.

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