Software Development Engineer II

Expedias Lodging Booking Services team is seeking a highly motivated developer to own and develop highly scalable and reliable web services that forms the core booking engine behind hotel bookings! These services sit at the intersection of supply and demand, and are mission critical in allowing travellers to complete and service their bookings with Expedia. If you understand what it takes to build a robust, scalable, reliable and high performance service, we want you to join our team!

In this role, you will:

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

• As a Software Development Engineer II, your primary responsibility is to design, develop, document, thoroughly test your code, and deploy it on production

• You will get to build your own automation and reporting tools to provide capabilities around the components/applications you own and will participate in troubleshooting Production issue

• Coordinate, and collaborate on multiple concurrent and complex cross-organizational initiatives

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

• Communicate and work effectively with geographically distributed cross-functional teams

• Drive for continuous improvement in software and development process within an agile development team

Experience and qualifications:

• Bachelors or Masters in computer science or related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience

• 2+ years of Software Development work experience using modern tech stack (Java, Kotlin, Spring boot, Mongo, Kafka, AWS)

• Excellent coding skills

• Solid understanding of Object Oriented Programming concepts, data structure, algorithms, and system-level programming (including multi-threaded programming)

• Good communication skills in written and verbal form

• Experience testing, automating, and instrumenting your code

• Prior experience developing MicroServices

• Working knowledge of Agile Software Development methodologies