Software Development Engineer, Expedia Group
Online travel shopping company
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Online travel shopping company
1001+ employees
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1001+ employees
Company mission
Expedia's mission is to power global travel for everyone, everywhere.
Role
Who you are
- An established performer who consistently applies software engineering principles to business contexts, leads small, well-defined projects and continues as a supporting player on complex projects, and actively identifies inefficiencies in existing systems
- 2+ years for Bachelor's, 0-2 years for Master's
- 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
- Has strength in a language, moderate familiarity in other applicable languages
- Is familiar with a couple data stores or API access patterns and integration
- Has familiarity with associated technologies within their specialization as part of the wider ecosystem
- Understands of how projects fit together within their team
- Understands moderately complex systems
- Tests and monitors their own code
- Understands testing and monitoring tools
- Debugs applications
- Understands how team goals fit a business need
What the job involves
- Collaborates with team members to co-develop and solve problems
- Proactively reaches out to meet peers across environment and collaborates to solve problems
- Takes advantage of opportunities to build new technical expertise in a specific engineering area
- Seeks knowledge from subject matter experts when needed
- Understands the importance of system and technology integration and the basic features and facilities involved in the integration process
- Develops and tests standard software applications and related programs and procedures to ensure they meet design requirements
- Applies 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
- Applies knowledge of database design to solve data requirements
- Helps coordinate stakeholder input and collaboration efforts when developing solutions to issues
- Thinks broadly and understand how, why and when policies/processes are standardized and when they differ across the organization
- Completes tasks and/or provides data to support implementation of holistic solutions that forge linkages between structure, people, process and technology
- Applies formal training methods to current workload. Feels comfortable challenging authority/the status quo
- Reports clearly on current work status
- Asks challenging questions when empowered to do so
Salary benchmarks
Our take
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 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
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Leadership
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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