At Expedia Group, we help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time. As a global travel company powered by passionate people, trusted partnerships, and leading technology, we connect travelers, partners, and advertisers through our consumer brands, B2B network, and travel advertising business.

Here, you'll do meaningful work that helps millions of people discover, book, and experience travel with more ease, confidence, and joy. Our five Behaviors-Traveler First, Think Big, Operate with Excellence, Ownership Mindset, and Succeed Together-help foster a supportive environment where people can grow their careers and have the flexibility, benefits, and support to do their best work. Join us and build for travelers everywhere.

Introduction to team:

Our team is looking for a Software Development Engineer III for our Tax and Regulatory Platforms. As a member of this team, you will have the opportunity to build and support the Global Tax Platform and Unified Regulatory Platform for the travel industry. These highly resilient systems must scale to process Expedia Group’s business transactions in time while adapting to ever-changing regulations in markets around the world. They power the complete transaction lifecycles, from shopping through booking, invoicing, accounting, filing, reporting, etc. And they must do these while providing financial-grade accuracy and robust reporting and audit trails.

This is an opportunity to take a pivotal role in building the travel industry’s premier commerce and financial platforms. You will have the opportunity to design and implement our APIs, data streams, real-time compute, and data lake storage at scale. As an engineer in the team, you will need to push the boundaries of cloud technologies. From Kafka, Kubernetes, or gRPC to Apache Spark and Flink, we’re always looking for the right technology to scale our solutions. We need your expertise to build for the long-term, with a focus on design patterns, re-use, and robust engineering practices including CI/CD.

In this role, you will:

Proactively teams up with peers across the organization to build an understanding of cross dependencies and shared problem-solving.
Participates in a community of practice to share and gain knowledge.
Continually seeks new technical skills in an engineering area.
Share new skills and knowledge with the team to increase effectiveness.
Demonstrates knowledge of advanced and relevant technology.
Is comfortable working with several forms of technology.
Understands the relationship between applications, databases, and technology platforms.
Develops and tests complex or non-routine software applications and related programs and procedures to ensure they meet design requirements.
Effectively applies knowledge of software design principles, data structures and/or design patterns, and computer science fundamentals to write code that is clean, maintainable, optimized, modular with good naming conventions.
Effectively applies knowledge of databases and database design principles to solve data requirements.
Effectively uses the understanding of software frameworks and how to leverage them to write simpler code.
Leads/clarifies code evolution in code reviews.
Brings together different stakeholders with varied perspectives to develop solutions to issues and contributes its own suggestions.
Thinks holistically to identify opportunities around policies/ processes to increase efficiency across organizational boundaries.
Assists with a whole systems approach to analyzing issues by ensuring all components (structure, people, process, and technology) are identified and accounted for.
Identifies areas of inefficiency in code or systems operation and offers suggestions for improvements.
Compiles and reports on major operational or technical initiatives (like RCAs) to larger groups, whether via written or oral means.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field, or equivalent related professional experience
Proficiency in Java and/or Scala
Experience with AWS and containerization/Kubernetes
5+ years of relevant professional experience
Experienced software developer with strong system design, problem solving, and object‑oriented coding skills
Experience developing in cloud environments
Background in e‑commerce solutions or similar transactional processing systems, including delivering and supporting highly available, scalable solutions with large transaction volume on a 24x7 operational cycle
Experience building CI/CD pipelines
Excellent teamwork and communication skills
Passionate about learning new things and sharing knowledge with others

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with data platforms such as Data Lakes, Hive, Spark, streaming technologies
Experience with UI development frameworks such as React or Node.js
Experience with monitoring/observability tools such as DataDog, Splunk, or similar application monitoring tools

Accommodation requests

Expedia Group is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience. If you need an accommodation or adjustment due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please submit a request at https://expedia.service-now.com/askeg?id=job_accommodation.

About Expedia Group

Expedia Group includes three flagship consumer brands - Expedia, Hotels.com, and Vrbo - along with a leading B2B travel business and travel advertising offerings. Across our brands and business, we help travelers explore the world with confidence and ease.

Important notice

Employment opportunities and job offers at Expedia Group will always come from Expedia Group's Talent Acquisition and hiring teams. Never share sensitive personal information unless you are confident of the recipient. Expedia Group does not extend job offers via email or messaging tools to individuals with whom we have not made prior contact. Our email domain is @expediagroup.com. The official place to find and apply for roles is https://careers.expediagroup.com/jobs/.

Equal Opportunity

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.

Software Development Engineer III - Java Backend