Senior Software Development Engineer (Java Backend)

Senior Software Development Engineer (Java 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. Expedia Product & Technology builds innovative products, services, and tools to deliver high-quality experiences for travelers, partners, and our employees. A singular technology platform powered by data and machine learning provides secure, differentiated, and personalized experiences for the traveler and our partners that drive loyalty and customer satisfaction. Price is a key factor influencing traveler’s path to driving a choice leading to a purchase. In a world of infinite paths to purchase, travelers make multiple searches and find the ‘best trip’ and ‘best deal’. The Expedia Group Offers pillar is tasked with giving the customer a simple, clear, accurate, transparent pricing experience throughout their shopping and booking journeys. We do this by putting the customer first, creating capabilities and experiences that can be shared and presented to the customer that meet the travelers’ expectations in locally relevant ways and adhere to regulatory norms. What you’ll do: - You will successfully conduct day-to-day work and solve complex issues in your own specific technical engineering area, will share domain and industry knowledge between cross-functional teams and will serve as a guide to others by sharing and helping junior engineers in their duties, while reporting on status of difficult or high-level projects to local tech leadership via written or oral means. - You will partner with the business to have a clear understanding of how your own technology stack is tied to business outcomes and our bottom line and will advise on technical limitations of software design for products and provide alternative solutions. - You will possess knowledge of features and facilities for integration, and communication among applications, databases and technology platforms to bring together different components and form a fully functional solution to a business problem. - You will creatively test and maintain software applications and related programs and procedures by using a variety of software development tools following design requirements of customer. - You will take technical responsibility for the health of the codebase, including quality, scalability, and performance and you will act as a spokesperson for software design best practices, research and recommend frameworks and architectural/code design patterns, identify areas of improvements within the code and suggests solutions and advocate for operational excellence (such as unit testing, establishing SLAs, programming for resiliency and scalability). - You will take a whole systems approach to analyze issues and implement holistic solutions by ensuring that linkages between structure, people, process and technology are made and will strive for optimum organizational efficiency by applying systems thinking across boundaries and making recommendations about policies/ processes. On-Call Requirement: This position requires the employee to be on-call outside of regular working hours. On-call duties encompass: - Responding to emergencies or incidents as they arise - Providing prompt support and solutions - Participating in on-call rotations, including nights, weekends, and bank holidays - Remaining reachable by phone or other communication methods at all times during on-call periods We are proud to be named as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2024 and be recognized for award-winning culture by organizations like Forbes, TIME, Disability:IN, and others. Expedia Group's family of brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Vrbo®, trivago®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Hotwire®, Wotif®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Expedia Group™ Media Solutions, Expedia Local Expert®, CarRentals.com™, and Expedia Cruises™. © 2024 Expedia, Inc. All rights reserved. Trademarks and logos are the property of their respective owners. CST: 2029030-50