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.

Introduction to team :

We're the  Insurance team at Expedia Group , and we're on a mission to  redefine how travelers experience peace of mind during their journeys . Whether it's trip protection, flight cancellations, or medical emergencies abroad, our goal is to deliver  seamless, reliable, and intelligent insurance experiences  across Expedia's suite of brands (like , Vrbo, , and more).

We work closely with  different insurance suppliers  to  onboard their products  into our systems and make them available to customers during  various booking journeys  — such as during checkout, post-purchase, and even through trip management pages. Our team ensures the right protection is offered at the right time, making travel safer and more confident for millions of users.

In this role, you will :

Design, develop, debug, and modify web services for Insurance micro-services

Lead, coordinate, and collaborate on multiple concurrent and complex cross-organizational initiatives

Lead the end-to-end product life cycle from mid to large size projects : Design, development, testing, deployment, and providing operational excellence and support

You contribute to advancing the teams design methodology and quality programming practices and mentor junior team members to adapt standard methodologies

You find and advocate for industry standards and best practices in development methodologies, techniques, and technologies

Innovate and implement new ideas to solve complex software problems and prototype creative solutions to enable product MVP’s

Independently understand scheduling, cost constraints, and impact to other teams, and make resource and architectural trade-off based on those factors

Anticipate and prevent problems and roadblocks, before they occur, and present technical issues and their impact to leadership

Effectively build and maintain a network of key contacts across company, and use these contacts to achieve results

Communicate and work effectively with geographically distributed cross functional teams

Drive for continuous improvement in software and development process with agile development team

Experience and qualifications :

Bachelor’s or master’s in computer science, information systems, engineering, or related technical fields; or equivalent related professional experience

5+ years of experience in the field of Software Engineering

Demonstrated proficiency in most areas of the professional function, and in-depth specialization in some Effective verbal and written communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information clearly and concisely

Experience in Agile / Scrum software development practices

You are a voracious learner, especially in the areas of technology, service design patterns, and system architecture

Ability to independently drive features from inception through to completion and production deployment

Excellent coding skills in Java and proficiency with HTML, XML, and JSON. Nice to have, familiarity with ReactJS

Experience working with Rest APIs and familiarity with the development of services using Spring Boot on Cloud (e.g. AWS)

Experience working around Apache Tomcat, Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Docker, Gradle

Experience using code versioning tools for e.g. Git

Ability to work in a diverse organization with global decentralized teams, working across multiple locations

Accommodation requests

If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, or other physical or mental health conditions, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the .

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 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.