Software Development Engineer III

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.

Role Summary

This role is under Ordering Services team & this team is responsible for enabling our customers to plan and book orders in a consistent and reliable manner across various channels of supply while utilizing different forms of payment. We are looking for 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.
Looking for a high performing individual contributor who acts as a mentor to more junior engineers, applies new engineering principles to improve existing systems, and is responsible for leading complex, well-defined projects.

In this role, you will:

• Design, build, and evolve highly available, performant, and secure services and APIs, including low-level design, API design, and data modeling to support complex business capabilities across multiple domains.

• Own end-to-end implementation for medium-to-large features and services, from technical design and coding through testing, deployment, monitoring, and operational support in a modern CI/CD and cloud environment.

• Collaborate closely with product, architecture, and peer engineering teams to break down ambiguous problems, define technical approaches, and deliver solutions that are scalable, maintainable, and observable.

• Improve code quality, reliability, and engineering efficiency by driving best practices in coding standards, automated testing, code reviews, and documentation across the team.

• Safely integrate and operate AI/ML‑enabled solutions that improve outcomes, including familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real world products.

• Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues, using logs, metrics, and tracing to identify root causes and implement resilient fixes that enhance the stability of services spanning multiple components.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience.

• 5+ years of relevant professional experience.

• Professional software development experience building and operating production services or applications, including working proficiency in at least one modern programming language and related frameworks.

• Demonstrated ownership of end-to-end delivery for services or features, including design, implementation, testing, deployment, and ongoing operational support for a service or set of services.

• Proven experience with system design (including low-level design), API design, and data modeling to build scalable, secure, and maintainable systems in a service-oriented or microservices environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience designing and evolving distributed, cloud-based systems at scale, including performance optimization, resiliency patterns, and effective use of observability to operate always-on services.

• Track record of leading the technical design for complex features or services, influencing architectural direction within a team or domain, and mentoring other engineers on design and implementation best practices.

• Strong focus on operational excellence, including automated testing strategies, continuous delivery, monitoring, alerting, and participating in on-call or incident response to improve service reliability over time.

• Hands-on experience integrating or extending AI/ML‑enabled solutions within production systems, such as using AI-powered developer tools, recommendation or ranking services, or intelligent automation to improve product or engineering outcomes.

• Familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real world products, including safely integrating and operating AI/ML‑enabled solutions that improve software and customer outcomes.

Accommodation requests

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