Software Development Engineer III

Job Overview

Position:
Distributed Systems Engineer (Pricing) – Expedia Group

• Own mission‑critical services end‑to‑end—from technical design and API contracts through implementation, deployment, and ongoing operations—for high‑throughput, low‑latency distributed pricing services at global scale.
• Partner with the business to understand how the technology stack impacts business outcomes and the bottom line.
• Analyze complex problems, deconstruct them into manageable milestones, and collaboratively deliver sustainable technical solutions.
• Actively participate in architecture reviews, produce thorough technical documentation, and conduct detailed code reviews.
• Creatively test and maintain software applications and related programs, using a variety of development tools in line with customer design requirements.
• Research and recommend frameworks, architectural/code‑design patterns, identify code‑area improvements, and suggest solutions.
• Advocate for operational excellence—unit testing, SLAs, resilience, scalability—and apply systems thinking across boundaries to recommend policies and processes.
• Mentor team members, share knowledge, and foster continuous technical growth and collaboration across teams.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 5+ years of professional software development (or Master’s Degree with 4+ years).
• Hands‑on experience with Java or similar object‑oriented languages, or Scala/Kotlin, or comparable functional languages.
• Proven experience building and operating scalable, distributed systems and services within AWS or comparable cloud infrastructure.
• Formal mentoring of at least 3 individuals and driving technical design for at least 3 end‑to‑end projects.
• Ability to translate business problems into testable, observable solutions.
• Understanding of relational and No
  
  SQL databases, data structures, API patterns, and service‑oriented architectures.
• Experience establishing operational excellence metrics at the team level and advocating for project quality through testing, monitoring, and alerting.
• Knowledge of robust caching solutions using Redis, Couchbase, Memcached, or similar.
• Successful work on Agile teams of at least 5 engineers, familiarity with modern Agile practices, version control, CI/CD.
• Commitment to technical excellence, excellent communication, interpersonal skills, and collaboration within a globally distributed team.

• Experience with low‑latency, high‑throughput processing (1M+ TPS) microservices.
• Proficiency in safely integrating AI/ML‑enabled solutions into backend systems and leveraging AI‑driven tools to enhance product outcomes.

We provide a full benefits package, including travel perks, generous time‑off, parental leave, a flexible work model (with some in‑office locations), and career development resources.

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or age.

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