Job Description

Interested in working with a creative engineering team in building innovative solutions? Want to help customize the travel shopping experience to help each traveler make informed decisions on their next big adventure?

The Conversational Shopping team, part of Marketplaces and Yield, is seeking a talented and highly motivated Software Development Engineer to deliver rich user experiences for the Vacation Rental Inquiry bot on the web, Android app, and iOS app. Our goal is to enable travelers in the shopping journey to easily and naturally express their intent and preferences, and provide personalized and relevant search results and recommendations. You'll be responsible for delivery of initiatives, maintaining high coding standards, solving challenging problems, and jump into new projects.

What you'll do:

* Own and deliver code that set and raise the bar on quality, operability, and scalability

* Actively participate in code and design reviews

* Collaborate effectively with product managers, architects, and other engineers to co-develop and solve problems in an agile environment

* Work with cross-functional teams to research and resolve production issues

* Mentor other engineers on the team

Who you are:

* 5+ years of experience in software engineering in a team environment

* Bachelor's degree or Masters in Computer Science a related major; or equivalent professional experience

* A quick learner who is always seeking new ways to improve and optimize their technical solutions

* Problem solver and experienced building, testing, deploying and monitoring web applications in the cloud

* Championed code quality, automated testing, design reviews, and other engineering practices

* Flexible working on and understanding front-end frameworks and back-end services

* Experienced with technologies like Node.js, React, Java, Kotlin, GraphQL, etc.

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 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 to 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 desire to make a difference with one of the most loved consumer brands in the world and 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, lastminute.com.au, ebookers, CheapTickets, Hotwire, Classic Vacations, Expedia Media Solutions, CarRentals.com, Expedia Local Expert, Expedia CruiseShipCenters, SilverRail Technologies, Inc., ALICE, and Traveldoo.

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.

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.