Mobile Engineering Intern - 2025 - Seattle, Chicago
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 global hybrid work setup (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.
*Note: Applications will remain live for at least 5 business days when the role is posted. The post will be removed when application targets are met.
By joining the Expedia Group 2025 Global Summer Internship Program as a Mobile Internyou’ll fully integrate into our inclusive community and gain a well-rounded experience of life at Expedia Group. Our global program offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to business-critical projects by developing your skills through tailored learning and training, providing ongoing support, and offering insightful intern-specific events to build knowledge and community. We’re building a more open world. Join us.
Internship Program Highlights:
Onboarding:Connect with your cohort, receive support, and set up for success in your first week
Intern Bootcamp: Role-specific technical and professional skills learning, both in-person and virtual, delivered in your first week to help you get set up for success
Meaningful work and projects: Interns join a variety of Expedia Group teams and directly contribute to business workstreams and priorities; at the conclusion of the internship interns present their work to team members and senior leadership
Learning Series: Interactive workshops delivered by our Learning team to build professional & soft skills, and support development, including topics such as personal branding and presentation skills
Leadership Series: Exclusive intern-only events with our Travel Leadership Team leaders to learn about their career journeys, hear their views on industry and company trends and ask questions!
Social events: Regular fun events organized for each regional cohort so you can get to know others, enjoy the Expedia Group culture, and enjoy some downtime!
Mentorship:Mentors are assigned to each individual intern to support your development and learning throughout the program and are also a great way to build your understanding and network at EG.
Support: Coaching and advice, provided by managers, team navigators (buddies) and a specific point of contact per region from Emerging Talent & Careers.
What You’ll do:
At Expedia, we develop next-generation technologies for which we have become world-renowned, and through which we are revolutionizing travel. We use top technology talent to innovate and build state of the art mobile and web applications. As a mobile engineer at Expedia, you will design and implement high-volume, fault tolerant, scalable solutions. You will work with the team to design, implement and iterate on feature quickly and efficiently. We’re looking for an engineer to work on mobile applications used by hundreds of thousands of our travelers and partners around the world and localized to multiple languages. Our engineers are involved in every aspect of the application lifecycle. We release our apps to production multiple times month and measure how our applications perform, so we can keep improving our features and our underlying platform. This is a unique opportunity to join the largest online travel company in the world and help shape the future of the top lodging initiatives within the Expedia Worldwide Engineering organization.
Implement holistic solutions to bring consistent experience between desktop and mobile platforms, with focus on either Android or iOS.
Engineer scalable, fault tolerant software for serving features across Expedia Group apps.
Work closely with other native mobile developers, designers and product managers to help, define and implement new features
Facilitate and contribute to discussions that result in simple, scalable, and reliable system designs.
Be an advocate for mobile first design and development of features in Expedia Group.
Help our teams operate efficiently and collaboratively to build apps that are performant, compact, intuitive, and maintainable.
Who You Are:
We know that many potential candidates can be hesitant to apply for a job if they aren't sure that they meet all the criteria shared. If you meet all the criteria labelled ‘Must’ and are interested in this role, we encourage you to apply!
Must be available to commit to the full program dates below
May 19-July 25, 2025 OR June 23-August 29, 2025
Must be graduating with an undergraduate or master’s degree in a technical subject (e.g. Computer Science, Information Technology) betweenDecember 2025 and July 2026
Must bewilling to relocate to city of job location if outside commuting distance
Must commit to full time hours every week
Must be graduating from university in the same country of internship location
Must haveno more than 2 years of professional experience in a similar role
Helpful to be familiar with basic concepts of automated tests.
Helpful to have knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and iOS or Android Development
Helpful to have effective communication skills and the ability to engage with a variety of partners (e.g., internal, external, technical, non-technical people)
What We Offer:
Successful candidates will receive a competitive compensation package including the benefits below and others:
The total cash range for this position in Seattle & Austin is $45-51 per hour. The total cash range for this position in Chicago is $41-47 per hour. Pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location and degree level. Hybrid Work Policy
Travel discounts
Opportunity to receive afull-time permanent offer after graduationand 12 months of customized support from our Emerging Talent & Careers team
Community support through Expedia Group’s Inclusion Business Groups
Relocation support (if eligible)
Next Steps:
Apply now! Our dedicated emerging talent & careers team will review your application and suitable applicants will be encouraged to complete an immersive strength based online assessment as the first step. Depending on the role profile you are applying to, selected candidates may also be asked to take a skills-based screening assessment.
Candidates who are invited to a final round interview will have the opportunity to meet with members of our team through two virtual interviews covering both technical and behavioral skills related to the position. These interviews will also be a chance for you to learn more about us, too!
Our Commitments:
Expedia Group has made commitments that we hope will propel us forward on the path to progress, including our aspirational hiring goalfor women to occupy 50 percent of roles at all levels by the end of 2025.
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 theAccommodation Request.
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