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User Experience Engineer III - Full stack (Web heavy - React.Js + Java/Kotlin/Node.Js)
At Expedia Group, we help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time. As a global travel company powered by passionate people, trusted partnerships, and leading technology, we connect travelers, partners, and advertisers through our consumer brands, B2B network, and travel advertising business.
Here, you'll do meaningful work that helps millions of people discover, book, and experience travel with more ease, confidence, and joy. Our five Behaviors-Traveler First, Think Big, Operate with Excellence, Ownership Mindset, and Succeed Together-help foster a supportive environment where people can grow their careers and have the flexibility, benefits, and support to do their best work. Join us and build for travelers everywhere.
User Experience Engineer III - Full stack (Web heavy - React.Js + Java/Kotlin/Node.Js)
At Expedia, we believe in being thinker-doers - we are Makers.
We believe travel enriches our lives and connects us to each other. Our Expedia Flights team is dedicated to building experiences that help travelers go places and makes our world more connected. Our team is global with representation in the United States, Mexico, Australia, and India. Flights Shopping Platform is one of the largest in the world serving over 150 million queries a day and powering some of the strongest brands in the industry like Orbitz, Expedia, Travelocity, Wotif, Hotwire and ebookers. Expedia redefined the airline industry with its flight shopping and booking technology 20 years ago. We always want to “be the place travelers choose to explore and book flights for a trip” and are looking for talent to join us and build technology and experiences that power these.
Our team is looking for curious, empathetic, and creative problem solvers with the growth mindset. We are a team of travel-loving makers, building a cutting-edge flights shopping platform using open-source technologies. Our platform serves customers on desktop, tablet, and mobile devices on Expedia sites and through a variety of partners.
In this role, you will:
- Design, build, and maintain full stack web experiences using React.js on the front end and Java/Kotlin services on the back end, ensuring performant, resilient, and secure user flows.
- Implement clean, reusable UI components and client-side state management patterns, collaborating with designers to translate experience requirements into responsive, accessible interfaces.
- Design low-level system components, RESTful APIs, and data models that support user-centric functionality, ensuring clear contracts, versioning, and maintainability across services.
- Own the end-to-end lifecycle of features from technical design and implementation through testing, deployment, monitoring, and iterative improvement based on data and customer feedback.
- 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.
- Collaborate across engineering, product, and UX to deliver cohesive experiences across multiple domains, contributing to shared patterns, libraries, and best practices that enable fungible full stack development.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience.
- 5+ years of relevant professional experience.
- Hands-on experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs, low-level component designs, and data models that support scalable, secure, and reliable user experiences across full stack web applications.
- Proven ability to own features or services end to end, including development, automated testing, deployment, monitoring, and incident response within a production environment.
- Practical familiarity with AI-driven tools or systems within the software development lifecycle, and the ability to safely integrate and work with AI/ML‑enabled capabilities in products or workflows.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience designing and evolving front-end architectures with React.js (or similar) at scale, including performance optimization, code-splitting, accessibility, and resilient client-side state management.
- Depth in backend engineering with Java/Kotlin services, including API design, service decomposition, data modeling, and integrating with distributed systems, caches, and data stores.
- Demonstrated track record of improving operational excellence through observability, alerting, automated quality gates, and data-driven decision making for user experience enhancements.
- Experience safely integrating and operating AI/ML‑enabled features in user-facing applications, such as personalization, recommendations, or intelligent assistance, including applying AI/ML concepts to real world product scenarios.
- Familiarity with modern full stack delivery practices (such as CI/CD, feature flags, experimentation, and canary releases) and the ability to influence technical direction, patterns, and best practices across multiple teams or domains, including role-specific experience with AI-assisted development and experimentation workflows.
Accommodation requests
Expedia Group is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience. If you need an accommodation or adjustment due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please submit a request at https://expedia.service-now.com/askeg?id=job_accommodation.
About Expedia Group
Expedia Group includes three flagship consumer brands - Expedia, Hotels.com, and Vrbo - along with a leading B2B travel business and travel advertising offerings. Across our brands and business, we help travelers explore the world with confidence and ease.
Important notice
Employment opportunities and job offers at Expedia Group will always come from Expedia Group's Talent Acquisition and hiring teams. Never share sensitive personal information unless you are confident of the recipient. Expedia Group does not extend job offers via email or messaging tools to individuals with whom we have not made prior contact. Our email domain is @expediagroup.com. The official place to find and apply for roles is https://careers.expediagroup.com/jobs/.
Equal Opportunity
Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent related professional experience
- 5+ years of relevant professional experience
- Experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs, low-level component designs, and data models for scalable, secure, reliable full-stack web applications
- Ability to own features or services end to end, including development, automated testing, deployment, monitoring, and production incident response
- Practical familiarity with AI-driven tools or systems in software development and AI/ML-enabled capabilities
- Experience designing and evolving React.js front-end architectures at scale
- Backend engineering experience with Java/Kotlin services, distributed systems, caches, and data stores
- Experience with observability, alerting, automated quality gates, and data-driven decision-making
- Experience integrating and operating AI/ML features in user-facing applications
- Familiarity with CI/CD, feature flags, experimentation, and canary releases
What the Team is Saying
Expedia Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Travel and wellness stipends, employee travel discounts, and access to industry credentials create distinctive lifestyle value aligned with the company’s mission. Feedback suggests these perks are widely valued and complemented by programs like charitable matching and volunteer time.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave for all parents, additional time for birthing parents, caregiving leave, and fertility/family‑building support indicate comprehensive family backing. Immediate eligibility and flexible return‑to‑work options further strengthen this area.
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Healthcare Strength — Employer‑provided medical options are positioned as locally competitive and are supplemented by mental‑health platforms and neurodiversity coaching. Health coverage is regarded positively, with multiple support pathways beyond standard insurance.
Expedia Group Insights
What We Do
Expedia Group, Inc. is the global travel marketplace with one purpose: to help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time. Expedia Group™ connects travelers, partners, and advertisers through its trusted brands, leading technology, and rich first-party data, delivering predictive, personalized experiences that shape the future of travel. Expedia Group’s ecosystem includes three flagship consumer brands – Expedia®, Hotels.com®, and Vrbo® – the largest B2B travel business, and a premier advertising network. Guided by an experienced and passionate global team, Expedia Group helps millions of travelers in more than 70 countries explore the world with confidence and ease.
Why Work With Us
Life at Expedia Group starts with the people and is shaped by how we work together. You’ll join a global community of curious teammates from different backgrounds, locations, and disciplines. Day to day, that means sharing ideas, taking ownership, and solving problems together.
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