Software Development Engineer, Expedia Group
Online travel shopping company
Open for applications
Online travel shopping company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
Expedia's mission is to power global travel for everyone, everywhere.
Role
Who you are
- Professional software engineering experience
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in a related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience
- Developed software in a team environment of at least 5 engineers (agile, version control, etc.)
- Built and maintained a software project/product in production environments in public/hybrid cloud infrastructure
- Strength in a strongly typed object-oriented language like Java, Scala experience is a plus
- Familiarity with modern databases
- Understanding of how projects fit together within your team and the team’s goals fit the business need
- Able to understand moderately sophisticated systems
- Able to test and monitor your code
- Understanding of testing and monitoring tools
- Ability to debug applications
What the job involves
- Collaborate with team members to co-develop and resolve problems
- Take advantage of opportunities to build new technical expertise in a specific engineering area
- Understand the importance of system and technology integration and the basic features and facilities involved in the integration process
- Apply software design principles, data structures and/or design patterns and computer science fundamentals to write code that is clean, maintainable, optimized, and modular with good naming conventions
- Implement tasks and/or provide data to support the implementation of holistic solutions that forge linkages between structure, people, process and technology
- Apply formal training methods to the current workload. You feel comfortable exciting authority/the status quo
- Report clearly on current work status
- Ask challenging questions when empowered to do so
Salary benchmarks
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
Expedia is an online travel agency. They enable users to access a wide range of services including airline tickets, hotel reservations, car rentals, cruises, vacation packages, and various attractions and services via the world wide web and telephone travel agents. Its primary web businesses include Expedia.com, Hotels.com, Hotwire.com, and Egencia.com.
Between 2021 and 2022, Expedia has been selling and merging a list of its sub-brands in a bid to simplify its operations, including Egencia and Classic Vacations. Due to plummeting share prices, mostly in the case of its sub-brands, Expedia has been leveraging its subsidiaries' customer base and merging them into the company’s core brand. Contrasting this move, Expedia has also been partnering with tech start-ups in a bid to make travel more accessible to underserved groups. Becoming Rentable, a travel company for the disabled is one of 12 startups that are part of Expedia Group’s new Open World Accelerator Programme.
What this indicates is Expedia’s shift from buying other travel companies and a move towards enhancing the experience of its preexisting customer base. This move is aiding in a long-term plan for greater long-term traveler loyalty, utilizing Expedia’s vast amounts of data, not just from reviews, but from check-in, cleanliness, communication, cancelations, etc to inform how guests experience a property.
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Company
Company benefits
- Leisure Travel Reimbursement
- Travel Discounts
- Family & Friends Discount
- Employee Assistance Program
- Wellness Reimbursement
- Global Service Awards
- Business Travel Medical Insurance
- Matching Gifts
- Expert Medical Opinion
- New Parent Benefit
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Private Health Insurance
Company values
- Force Simplicity
- Include Consciously
- Trust Each Other
- Go Get What's Next
- Choose Fearlessly
Company HQ
Interbay, Seattle, WA
Founders
Peter M. Kern
(CEO, not founder)Has been a director of Expedia Group since completion of the IAC/Expedia Group Spin-Off and has served as Vice Chairman of Expedia Group since June 2018. Previously CEO of Tribune Media and Managing Partner of InterMedia Partners VII, LP, a private equity firm.
People progressing
Joined as Manager - Strategic Initiatives and has been promoted multiple times to Senior Manager - Strategic Initiatives after 1 year, to Director - Strategic Initiatives also after 1 year, and again to Senior Director - Strategy & Supply after 2 years. Now works as the Vice President of the Travel Agent Affiliate Program.
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