3 days ago
Responsibilities
- Design, build, test, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs for the advertiser portal and third-party integrations.
- Develop reusable capabilities for a unified advertising platform across multiple advertising products.
- Own features and services end to end, including design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operational support.
- Contribute to system design, low-level design, API design including GraphQL, and data modeling.
- Build customer-facing features with primarily backend development and some React frontend contributions.
- Improve scalability, performance, reliability, monitoring, observability, automation, and overall system health.
- Troubleshoot production issues, debug across technical systems, write secure and maintainable code, and participate in code reviews.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, operations, and globally distributed teams to translate business needs into technical solutions.
- Use AI-enabled solutions and AI-assisted development tools to improve developer productivity and product outcomes.
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 ability to ramp quickly on Kotlin, plus familiarity with React.
- Experience designing and consuming APIs using REST and/or GraphQL.
- Ability to work across multiple technical systems or services and debug and deliver maintainable solutions.
- Preferred experience with advertising technology, marketplaces, or high-scale distributed systems.
- Preferred experience with event streaming or messaging technologies such as Flink or Kafka.
- Preferred experience contributing to architecture and design discussions for services, APIs, and data models.
- Preferred ability to improve service quality through performance tuning, observability, and automation.
- Preferred experience using metrics and data to inform engineering decisions and measure impact.
- Preferred familiarity with AI-driven systems or AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot or Claude.
- Preferred experience building customer-facing features with React frontend development.
- Preferred background working on large-scale, high-throughput systems or platforms.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Paid time off and an Employee Assistance Program.
- Wellness and travel reimbursement.
- Travel discounts and International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IATAN) membership.
- Chicago, Illinois location with at least three days per week in the office under the flexible work model.
- Relocation assistance is not offered.
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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.