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 flexible work model (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.

Introduction to the team

Our Technology Team partners with teams across Expedia Group to create innovative products, services, and tools to deliver high-quality experiences for travelers, partners, and our employees. A singular technology platform powered by data and machine learning provides secure, differentiated, and personalized experiences that drive loyalty and traveler satisfaction.

Make an Impact!

Join the Flight Search Services (FSS) team, the engine room behind Expedia Group’s global air shopping platform. In this role, you will be instrumental in building and scaling high-throughput, low-latency backend systems that process massive volumes of data to connect travelers with flights worldwide. This is a unique opportunity for a developer who thrives on solving complex distributed systems problems to make a tangible impact on our core business. You will collaborate with a talented, cross-functional team to deliver high-quality, production-ready software that powers the future of travel.

In this role, you will:

• Design, develop, test, and maintain services and components with a focus on clean API design, robust data modeling, and reliable system behavior

• Contribute to system design, including low-level design decisions, to ensure services are scalable, observable, and maintainable

• Implement high-quality, well-tested code, participate in code reviews, and improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes across the team

• Collaborate with product, design, and partner engineering teams to deliver features end-to-end, balancing technical quality with delivery timelines

• Safely integrate and operate AI/ML‑enabled solutions that improve outcomes, including familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows, and applying AI/ML concepts to real-world products

• Work across multiple services or components within a domain, diagnosing production issues, improving performance, and contributing to operational excellence

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience

• 2+ years of relevant professional experience

• Professional software development experience with ownership of services or components within a broader system

• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language and associated ecosystem, with hands-on experience in API design, data modeling, and system design (including low-level design)

• Experience building, testing, deploying, and operating backend or full-stack services in production environments, including participating in on-call or incident response rotations as appropriate

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong proficiency in modern Java development, with a track record of writing clean, maintainable, and production-ready code

• Hands-on experience with public/hybrid cloud services and container orchestration tools like Kubernetes to deploy and manage scalable applications

• Previous experience working on high-throughput, low-latency backend systems; familiarity with handling millions of requests daily is a strong plus

• A solid understanding of distributed systems concepts, microservices architecture, and API design

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and monitoring tools to ensure system reliability and health

• A proactive approach to debugging complex issues in a distributed environment and a passion for optimizing performance

Please note that this role is only available in Seattle, WA, in alignment with our flexible work model, which requires employees to be in-office at least three days a week. We are unable to offer relocation assistance for this role.

The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $119,000.00 to $166,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $190,500.00, 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.

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 the Accommodation Request.

We are proud to be named as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2024 and be recognized for award-winning culture by organizations like Forbes, TIME, Disability:IN, and others.

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