Senior Software Development Engineer - Content Platform

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.

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.

Within Expedia Product & Technology, our Content organization enables Expedia Group to acquire, enrich and distribute hundreds of millions of assets (images, texts, attributes, videos, etc.) used across our various brands and lines of businesses. While planning your next trip on Expedia Group websites or mobile applications, every step of your experience was enhanced by our Content!

Our team is dedicated to delivering highly scalable software solutions in an agile development environment, using state-of-the-art technologies. Our culture provides a safe environment to spark creativity and encourage continuous learning and growth. Much of our development is on back-end services. We work in a Dev Ops model where developers are involved in all aspects of software development from design to test, implementation, deployment, monitoring and support.

• Design, build, and evolve complex services, APIs, and data models that power Expedia Group’s content and product catalog experiences, ensuring high availability, reliability, and performance.
• Lead system design and low-level design (LLD) efforts for content and catalog services, including API design, contracts, and data modeling that enable scalable and reusable solutions across multiple domains.
• Drive end‑to‑end delivery for multi‑service features, from technical discovery and design through implementation, testing, deployment, and operational support, raising the engineering bar for the team.
• Collaborate closely with product, architecture, and partner engineering teams to define technical requirements and deliver content capabilities that are reusable across lines of business and markets.
• Champion engineering excellence by improving CI/CD pipelines, observability, operational readiness, and incident response for content systems, while mentoring other engineers in best practices.
• Safely integrate and operate AI/ML‑enabled and AI‑assisted solutions into content workflows and services, applying AI/ML concepts to real‑world products and improving content quality, coverage, and developer productivity.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience.
• 8+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Several years of professional software development experience owning one or more backend or full‑stack services in a production environment, including design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operations.
• Proven experience designing and implementing service‑oriented or microservice architectures for complex content or catalog‑like domains, including API design, data modeling, and low‑level/system design.
• Proficiency in one or more modern programming languages (Kotlin or Java preferred) and associated frameworks, plus strong skills working with relational or No
  
  SQL databases (Redis/Valkey, Cassandra and ScyllaDB preferred), including schema design and data access patterns for content systems.