Full Stack Software Development Engineer III

Expedia Group

Location: Chicago, Illinois

Job Type: Full time

Posted


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Full Stack Software Development Engineer III

Would you like to be part of a team that delights millions of travelers from all over the world by creating the best possible booking experience? If you're passionate about building engaging, robust, and blazingly fast websites then come and join us!


We're looking for a Software Development Engineer to join our team on our mission to power the next generation of Expedia,Hotels.com, and Vrbo customer experiences! We scale and optimize the performance on applications serving the lodging customer experiences. Using a modern technology stack of Node.js, React, and GraphQL, we focus on writing accessible, scalable, and performant code, as well as building and being part of a thriving community of like-minded engineers.


What you’ll do:

  • Apply software design principles and/or design to write code that is clean, maintainable, optimized, and modular with good naming conventions

  • Prototype basic flows to resolve customer needs and collaborate with multi-functional design and research peers to deliver

  • Understand user-centered research practices and read through and implement UX Design documents

  • Collaborate with team members, particularly design counterparts, to co-develop and resolve problems

  • Understand the importance of system and technology integration and the basic features and facilities involved in the integration process

  • Apply formal training methods to the current workload and feel comfortable challenging authority/the status quo

  • Use opportunities to build new technical expertise in a specific engineering area

  • Help coordinate partner input and coordinate efforts when developing solutions to issues

  • Mentor junior developers

Who you are:

  • Bachelor's or Master’s degree in a related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience

  • Equivalent experience includes: Developing software in a team environment, building and maintaining a software project/product in production environments in public/hybrid cloud infrastructure

  • Hands-on experience with technologies like Spring, REST APIs, JSON, JavaScript,React, GraphQL

  • Experience with improving application performance for Web, mobile, and native.

  • Strong coding skills in Java and or Kotlin

  • Technical proficiency in developing high-performance, scalable web applications in distributed architecture SOA

  • Exposure to Design Patterns, data structure and algorithms

  • Familiarity in a couple data stores or API access patterns and integration

  • Understanding of how projects fit together within your team and how teams' goals fit a business need

  • Able to understand moderately sophisticated systems

  • Ability to test and monitor your own code

  • Understanding of testing and monitoring tools

  • Ability to debug applications

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The total cash range for this position in Chicago is $148,500.00 to $208,000.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $237,500.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.

Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.

Expedia Group is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to support employees and their families, including medical/dental/vision, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program. To fuel each employee’s passion for travel, we offer a wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and an International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership.View our full list of benefits.

About Expedia Group

Expedia Group (NASDAQ: EXPE) powers travel for everyone, everywhere through our global platform. Driven by the core belief that travel is a force for good, we help people experience the world in new ways and build lasting connections. We provide industry-leading technology solutions to fuel partner growth and success, while facilitating memorable experiences for travelers. 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™.

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