Android Engineer III - Trip Planning

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.

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.

Expedia Technology teams partner with our Product teams to create innovative products, services, and tools to deliver high-quality experiences for travelers, partners, and our employees. A singular technology platform powered by data and machine learning provides secure, differentiated, and personalized experiences that drive loyalty and traveler satisfaction.

The Android Engineer III role is part of the Trip Planner team, which builds the next generation of travel planning experiences to help travelers discover, share, and organize their dream vacations with ease. We design responsive, cross‑platform, and large‑scale solutions that integrate with every line of business—air, lodging, car rental, and more. Our work blends cutting‑edge technology with human‑centered design to make travel more predictive, proactive, and personalized.

As an Mobile Engineer focused on Android, you will play a key role in shaping the architecture and user experience of our mobile apps. You will lead feature development, contribute to platform‑wide consistency, and collaborate across disciplines to deliver high‑impact solutions. This role offers the opportunity to influence how millions of travelers plan and experience their trips, while contributing to Expedia Group’s mission to be the global one‑stop travel marketplace.

• Architect and develop core features for our Android apps, delivering reliable and scalable solutions
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams—including Product, Design, and Platform Engineering—to build seamless and intuitive user experiences
• Proactively address app performance issues and crashes to enhance product quality
• Promote and implement Android development best practices—clean architecture, testing, accessibility, and performance optimization
• Continuously drive improvements to create fast, responsive, and delightful mobile experiences
• Participate in code reviews to ensure high-quality, maintainable, and well‑structured code
• Write automated unit, system, and acceptance tests to support CI/CD pipelines

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
• 5+ years of Android development experience with production apps shipped using modern Android architecture
• Strong proficiency in Jetpack, Jetpack Compose, Kotlin, Kotlin Coroutines, Flow, and Android Studio.
• Proven experience with architectural patterns such as MVVM and a track record of building maintainable, modular code at scale.
• Effective communicator who can articulate technical concepts clearly across teams.

• Comfortable working on complex, large‑scale systems with high transaction volumes.
• Passionate about mobile‑first development and eager to explore new technologies.
• Committed to inclusive collaboration and mentoring others.
• Full ownership mindset, committed to maintaining a high‑quality bar across the entire development lifecycle
• Experience with Graph
  
  QL or building high‑efficiency services
• Familiarity with networking (e.g., Retrofit), web sockets, and asynchronous messaging for chat or real‑time experiences
• Experience contributing to Android SDKs or platform‑level libraries
• Experience optimizing for performance on mobile (CPU/GPU/memory/latency)
• Experience operating in an Agile environment and using…