Job Description

Software Development Engineer III (UI/UX)

As a global leader in travel, Expedia helps millions of people every day go places and build lifelong memories. With the Activities line of business, our mission is to help our customers find and have memorable experiences on their trips. Expedias Activities product development team is a global team of over 50 inspiring and creative individuals spanning two sites who focus on enabling our mission end to end, from customer to supplier. It offers expertise and assistance in booking activities, tours, attractions, ground transportation, and other in-destination services to our customers in over two thousand destinations around the world. We take pride in solving customer and supplier centric problems by truly using the platform and build capabilities at scale.

Are you someone who is humble, passionate about travel, technology, and solving complex customer and supplier centric problems? Are you an engineer looking to showcase your ability to build highly scalable, performant, and resilient systems with the latest technologies available? Are you the go-to person on your team? Are you someone who believes in teamwork as opposed to working in silos? If so, the activities team might be the right team for you. We are looking for a humble and enthusiastic developer who will push the boundaries on engineering forward-thinking solutions and contribute to shaping our new future. We expect you to have the energy and passion to deliver using a whole range of technologies and have a solid understanding of engineering principles.

What's in it for you? Beyond travel perks and other competitive benefits, you can walk away from work every single day knowing you truly made an impact. You can build a new feature that goes on the live site. You can build programs that streamline our backend search and supply processes. You can help localize content and systems globally. And you can do this all while working alongside smart, passionate engineers who love travel to their core.

What you will do:

* Participate in a community of practice to share and gain knowledge

* Share new skills and knowledge with team to increase effectiveness.

* Understand the relationship between applications, databases and technology platforms

* Identify design system components capable of being inner-sourced out to the larger organization

* Coordinate bringing together different partners with varied perspectives to develop solutions to issues and gives own suggestions

* Recognize areas of inefficiency in code or systems operation and offers suggestions for improvements

* Compile and report on major operational or technical initiatives (like RCAs) or UX research to larger groups, whether via written or oral means

* Use both qualitative and quantitative insights of customer research and data and business analytics to drive insights and solutions

* Architect reusable functional components for use across our global sites (i.e. form widgets, content modules, etc)

* Optimize everything for speed, speed, speed. Know the rendering engines in each browser and their weaknesses

* Utilize node, gulp to compile and transcribe your code

* Write semantic HTML components

* Drive new features from inception to production, working across the company with product managers, UX designers and other partners

* Participate in resolution of production issues and lead efforts toward solutions

* Giving to development standards working closely with the Dev Manager

* Discussing technical solutions with peers and providing innovative new ideas to solutions

* Maintaining a high awareness of industry issues and trends, particularly in regard to accessibility, usability, and emerging technologies

* Help on board and train junior UI devs

* Communicate and work efficiently with geographically distributed multi-functional teams

* Showcase your work on our tech blog and internal & external conferences

Who you are:

* 3-5 years of experience as UI developer

* Experience working on progressive web applications

* Solid understanding of HTML, CSS, Object Oriented principles and JavaScript

* Experience working with Java, Kotlin and Graph QL

* Experience creating mobile-first experiences

* Experience with ES6 or other JS libraries

* Up-to-date familiarity with emerging W3C standards (HTML5, CSS(4), etc)

* Knowledge of working with JavaScript frameworks to create rich interactive content

* Solid knowledge of cross-browser/multi-device support; mobile-first

* Experience using version control systems (Git, SVN, etc)

* Solid understanding of node, npm and gulp

* Solid understanding of Web Accessibility, experience building sites to at least an AA standard

* Demonstrates strength in a couple languages and/or one language with multiple technology implementations

* Bachelor's or Masters degree in a related Technical field or equivalent related professional experience

* A passion for travel

Why join us:

Expedia Group recognizes our success is dependent on the success of our people. We are the world's travel platform, made up of the most knowledgeable, passionate, and creative people in our business. Our brands recognize the power of travel to break down barriers and make people's lives better that responsibility inspires us to be the place where exceptional people want to do their best work, and to provide them the tools to do so.

Whether you're applying to work in engineering or customer support, marketing or lodging supply, at Expedia Group we act as one team, working towards a common goal; to bring the world within reach. We relentlessly strive for better, but not at the cost of the customer. We act with humility and optimism, respecting ideas big and small. We value diversity and voices of all volumes. We are a global organization but keep our feet on the ground, so we can act fast and stay simple. Our teams also have the chance to give back on a local level and make a difference through our corporate social responsibility program, Expedia Cares.

If you have a hunger to make a difference with one of the most loved consumer brands in the world and to work in the dynamic travel industry, this is the job for you.

Our family of travel brands includes: Brand Expedia, Hotels.com, Expedia Partner Solutions, Egencia, trivago, Vrbo, Orbitz, Travelocity, Wotif, ebookers, CheapTickets, Hotwire, Expedia Media Solutions, CarRentals.com, Expedia Local Expert, Expedia Cruise and SilverRail Technologies, Inc. For more information, visit www.expediagroup.com.

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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, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.