Full Stack Development Engineer III (Backend Heavy)

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. Were building a more open world. Join us.

Introduction To The Team

Were the Insurance team at Expedia Group, and were on a mission to redefine how travelers experience peace of mind during their journeys. Whether its trip protection, flight cancellations, or medical emergencies abroad, our goal is to deliver seamless, reliable, and intelligent insurance experiences across Expedias suite of brands (like Expedia.com, Vrbo, Hotels.com, and more).

We work closely with different insurance suppliers to onboard their products into our systems and make them available to customers during various booking journeys such as during checkout, post-purchase, and even through trip management pages. Our team ensures the right protection is offered at the right time, making travel safer and more confident for millions of users.

In This Role, You Will

• Design, develop, debug, and modify web services for Insurance micro-services
• Lead, coordinate, and collaborate on multiple concurrent and complex cross-organizational initiatives
• Lead the end-to-end product life cycle from mid to large size projects: Design, development, testing, deployment, and providing operational excellence and support
• You contribute to advancing the teams design methodology and quality programming practices and mentor junior team members to adapt standard methodologies
• You find and advocate for industry standards and best practices in development methodologies, techniques, and technologies
• Innovate and implement new ideas to solve complex software problems and prototype creative solutions to enable product MVPs
• Independently understand scheduling, cost constraints, and impact to other teams, and make resource and architectural trade-off based on those factors
• Anticipate and prevent problems and roadblocks, before they occur, and present technical issues and their impact to leadership
• Effectively build and maintain a network of key contacts across company, and use these contacts to achieve results
• Communicate and work effectively with geographically distributed cross functional teams
• Drive for continuous improvement in software and development process with agile development team

Experience and Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience.
• 5+ years of relevant professional experience.
• 5+ years of relevant professional software development experience.
• Proven experience owning and delivering full?stack features or services end to end, including design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operational support within a multi-service or domain-focused environment.
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language for backend development (e.g., Java, Kotlin) and modern web frontend technologies, including JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3, and at least one framework such as React, Angular.
• Familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real world products.

• Experience architecting and operating large-scale, distributed backend systems in a cloud environment.
• Advanced knowledge of backend system design, resilient API frameworks, and data modeling for multi-service platforms.
• Strong record of implementing operational excellence through automated testing, robust monitoring, and reliability engineering.
• Demonstrated ability to safely integrate and operate AI/ML-enabled solutions for backend quality and performance improvements.
• Deep expertise in leveraging AI/ML for backend development, such as predictive analytics for anomaly detection or autonomous scaling solutions.

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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