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Responsibilities
- Design, build, test, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs for the advertiser portal and third-party integrations.
- Contribute reusable capabilities to a unified advertising platform across multiple advertising products.
- Own features and services through design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operational support.
- Participate in system design, low-level design, API design including GraphQL, and data modeling.
- Develop customer-facing features with primarily backend work and some React frontend contributions.
- Improve scalability, performance, reliability, monitoring, debugging, automation, and observability for high-traffic systems.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, operations, and globally distributed teams to translate business needs into technical solutions.
- Write secure, maintainable, and well-tested code and participate in code reviews and engineering best practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 3 years of software development experience building and supporting production systems and services.
- Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and core computer science fundamentals.
- Experience owning components or services through implementation, testing, deployment, and operational support.
- Experience designing and building scalable backend systems and APIs.
- Proficiency in Java or Kotlin, or the ability to ramp quickly, plus familiarity with React.
- Experience designing and consuming REST and/or GraphQL APIs and working across multiple technical systems or services.
- Preferred experience includes advertising technology, marketplaces, high-scale distributed systems, event streaming with Flink or Kafka, architecture and design discussions, performance tuning, observability, automation, metrics-driven engineering, AI-driven systems, GitHub Copilot, Claude, and frontend development with React.
- Strong ownership, collaboration, problem-solving, and interest in building scalable, high-performance systems.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, an Employee Assistance Program, wellness and travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and IATAN membership.
- The role is available only in Chicago, Illinois, follows a flexible work model requiring at least three days in the office per week, and does not offer relocation assistance.
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About Expedia
Expedia Group builds a global online travel marketplace where consumers book flights, hotels, vacation rentals, cars, and activities, and partners distribute and market inventory across its platform. It monetizes through commissions, merchant/agency models, and advertising via brands including Expedia, Hotels.com, and Vrbo. Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Seattle, the public company (NASDAQ: EXPE) serves travelers and partners in more than 70 countries with B2C, B2B, and ad tech offerings.