Software Development Engineer I

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. We’re building a more open world. Join us.

Introduction to the team

We create and deliver an aligned, dedicated marketing strategy to fuel each Expedia Group brand's success. Since our travelers interact with us through our brands, we have a brand focus in our marketing, while leveraging the scale and efficiency we’ve built in functional expertise. 

The Expedia SEM Engineering team’s mission is to build the best-in-class platform to enable marketing and optimize value for EG Brands. This platform powers critical company-wide use cases like SEM Account structuring, coverage, signals, RLSA management, Account hygiene, etc. by reducing ops time to market and providing scale of operations. The platform is used by multiple SEM Operations teams for growth and engagement efforts, as well as brand marketing efforts.

Are you a highly motivated Software Development Engineer who wants to own, enhance and develop independent/open-source products which solve unique problems for marketing? If you're not satisfied with the status quo and constantly want to improve things, we want you here! Come join us and help build the products that catapult our marketing.

Technologies we work with include Python, Scala, React, PostgreSQL, Apache Spark, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Docker, AWS (EC2, S3, EMR, RDS, Kinesis, and multi-data center architecture).

In this role, you will:

• Use your outstanding engineering skills, software designs, and technical knowledge to deliver technical solutions to our marketing problems

• Identify and embrace new technologies, frameworks, and standard methodologies.

• Improve the operational aspects of the platform with updates to our deployment process, test automation, performance tuning, and monitoring

• Work closely with architecture, product, and lead business-critical projects.

• Share your interests and passions with our fun-loving, active team

Experience and qualifications:

• 0-2 years Bachelor or Master's in Computer Science or similar engineering field
• Ability to rapidly acquire and learn new software skills and technologies
• Has moderate strength in at least one language.
• Understands data patterns and storage.
• Understands software development theory and design.
• Understands how functions created fit into team projects.
• Understands lower complexity systems.
• Has a basic understanding of testing and monitoring
• Debugs code.

The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $87,500.00 to $122,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $140,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.

Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.

Expedia Group is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to support employees and their families, including medical/dental/vision, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program. To fuel each employee’s passion for travel, we offer a wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and an International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership. View our full list of benefits.

Accommodation requests

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.

Expedia Group's family of brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Vrbo®, trivago®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Hotwire®, Wotif®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Expedia Group™ Media Solutions, Expedia Local Expert®, CarRentals.com™, and Expedia Cruises™. © 2024 Expedia, Inc. All rights reserved. Trademarks and logos are the property of their respective owners. CST: 2029030-50

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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.