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Principal Software Development Engineer

Are you looking for a new challenge? Are you passionate about Travel, Technology, and solving tough problems for the Customer? Does building a highly scalable platform linking customers, suppliers and travelers from different channels like chat, mobile web and voice interfaces to intelligent virtual agents excite you? Are you excited about the opportunity to provide technical leadership to a team of engineers? Do you like to tackle a variety of Business and Technology problems? If so, here is an excellent opportunity for you.

As a Principal Software Development Engineer, within Intelligent Services team, you will be creating solutions and providing technical leadership to a team dedicated to building foundational core services for the Service platform supporting multiple brands and lines of business. In addition, you will be contributing quality initiatives – bringing Expedia Group Quality initiatives into Intelligent Services team.

In this role, you will focus on enabling solutions for domain teams to seamlessly onboard to the platform, ensure high quality bar for all the platforms in IS, from conceptualization to design and implementation. As a principal software engineer, you will be driving the thought leadership in this space to build a first-class approach to enable success of the domain teams.

What you'll do:

Build relationships with engineering and product leaders across the organization to understand business problems and apply a technology lens to resolve them
Coaching and mentoring: Combine and share knowledge and skills in more than one functional area to promote efficiency in the department or business unit/function
Interpret internal/external business challenges and recommend integration of the appropriate systems, applications and technology to provide a fully functional solution to a business problem
Master software design with the best methods, shape coding methodologies and best methods and promote adoption of new platform technologies
Bring Quality best practices into the organization – from deployment to delivery
Enable optimum organizational efficiency by taking a whole systems approach and thinking across boundaries to identify which policies/processes should be standardized and which should differ
Champion prioritized goals and work with others across Expedia Group to investigate those initiatives. Ensure documentation is not overwhelming or obsolete
Provide leadership, technical direction, and architectural input into product vision and roadmap development
Work across global teams for Activities to drive towards desired north star architecture

Who you are:

Bachelor's or Masters in a related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience
Presents new technology choice to technical and non-technical observers, able to guide others to make well defined technology choices
Understands systems being created across the team and how your own business unit would integrate with them
Very hands on and able to understand, develop and design highly sophisticated systems
Ability to establish standards for operational excellence and code quality at a multi-project level
Drives principles and practices in design of software that is easily testable and observable
Experience building high scale distributed cloud-based microservice architectures
Strong background in third-party cloud services, especially Amazon AWS technologies and UI development expertise using React, node JS is a plus
Strong experience with backend technologies such as Java, Kotlin, Scala, client / server architecture and domain driven design
Strong Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structure, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
Effective coaching and leadership skills and an ability to lead engineering projects across a diverse organization with global decentralized teams
Strong communication and presentation experience and the ability to explain technical details and challenges to a wide variety of people
Ability to look at solutions in creative ways, recognize opportunities to innovate, and engage partners in a vision and strategy
Experience in full-stack software development across multiple technologies, languages, and frameworks

The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $207,500.00 to $290,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $332,000.00, 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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