At Expedia Group, we help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time. As a global travel company powered by passionate people, trusted partnerships, and leading technology, we connect travelers, partners, and advertisers through our consumer brands, B2B network, and travel advertising business.

Here, you'll do meaningful work that helps millions of people discover, book, and experience travel with more ease, confidence, and joy. Our five Behaviors-Traveler First, Think Big, Operate with Excellence, Ownership Mindset, and Succeed Together-help foster a supportive environment where people can grow their careers and have the flexibility, benefits, and support to do their best work. Join us and build for travelers everywhere.

Introduction to the Team

The Air Supply Organization at Expedia Group is seeking an experienced backend developer with a passion for building robust, scalable, and high-performance applications that help millions of people plan their travels and create lifelong memories. Join us as we revolutionize the travel industry!

The Air Supply Organization at Expedia Group is at the forefront of innovation in the travel industry. We leverage our cutting-edge, in-house platform to seamlessly integrate with airlines worldwide, delivering exceptional travel experiences to millions of users annually. Through APIs that adhere to NDC standards, we enable travellers to access top-tier content, enjoy an immersive ticket shopping experience, and add convenient ancillaries to their journeys with ease.

We are part of the partner connectivity platform that serves as the backbone of Expedia's business, powering an efficient two-way marketplace that bridges supply and demand. Leveraging diverse integration methods-ranging from direct connections to NDC and GDS sourcing-our platform processes over 50 Tier-1 services and generates more than 8TB of data each month. Built with modern technologies like Java, Kotlin, Spring, MSSQL, DynamoDB, and Redis, our ecosystem supports millions of travelers in finding the best travel products tailored to their needs.

What Sets Us Apart

• Global Scale: We operate a platform that impacts millions of users worldwide, making air travel more accessible, seamless, and personalized.

• Innovation-Driven: We thrive on solving complex challenges, continuously improving our technology stack, and staying ahead in the fast-paced travel industry.

• Collaborative Culture: Our geographically distributed team is empowered to drive high-priority initiatives independently while fostering a culture of collaboration, inclusivity, and shared success.

If you're passionate about creating transformative solutions, tackling large-scale engineering challenges, and shaping the future of air travel, we'd love to have you on our team. Join us, and let's redefine the way the world travels together!

In this role, you will:

• Lead design and implement products and solutions that are highly scalable with high-quality, clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.
• Find opportunities for process and technology improvements, and work towards adoption and implementation.
• Assist with supporting Production systems (includes investigating issues and working towards resolution)
• Exercise creativity and provide alternative solutions to a given problem removing roadblocks and driving issues to closure
• Create/update documentation for the purpose of sharing knowledge between team members
• Actively participate in group technology reviews to critique the work of self and others
• Participate and formulate user story creation in partnership with the team, product managers.
• Closely collaborate with Senior and Principal Developers, as well as the Product Manager, to find effective solutions to problems.

Experience and Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience.
• 5+ years of relevant professional software development experience in Java/ Kotlin
• Demonstrated experience designing, building, and maintaining backend services and APIs at scale.
• Proficient in system design, data modeling, and secure, maintainable code development.
• Proven ability to own and deliver technical solutions for complex, multi-service environments.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Expertise in architecting, scaling, and operating distributed backend systems in production.
• Experience integrating AI/ML features or workflows into backend services to enhance product capabilities.
• History of driving operational excellence, including monitoring, alerting, and incident management for backend services.
• Demonstrated leadership in technical decision-making and mentorship within engineering teams.

Accommodation requests

Expedia Group is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience. If you need an accommodation or adjustment due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please submit a request at https://expedia.service-now.com/askeg?id=job_accommodation.

About Expedia Group

Expedia Group includes three flagship consumer brands - Expedia, Hotels.com, and Vrbo - along with a leading B2B travel business and travel advertising offerings. Across our brands and business, we help travelers explore the world with confidence and ease.

Important notice

Employment opportunities and job offers at Expedia Group will always come from Expedia Group's Talent Acquisition and hiring teams. Never share sensitive personal information unless you are confident of the recipient. Expedia Group does not extend job offers via email or messaging tools to individuals with whom we have not made prior contact. Our email domain is @expediagroup.com. The official place to find and apply for roles is https://careers.expediagroup.com/jobs/.

Equal Opportunity
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, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.