Software Development Engineer II

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 Business the B2B arm of Expedia Group. We bring Expedia Group’s innovative technology and distribution solutions to partners across the world, including financial institutions, corporate managed travel companies, offline travel agents, and travel suppliers.
As a Software Development Engineer II supporting Forward Deployment Engineering, you will build software solutions that address partner needs and bring Expedia Group’s Travel Platform capabilities to life. You will combine hands-on software development with customer collaboration, solution discovery, prototyping, and technical delivery.
In this role, you will:

• Develop, test, deploy, and maintain software applications and supporting services in public or hybrid cloud environments.
• Work directly with partners, product teams, sales, and engineering teams to understand business needs and translate them into technical solutions.
• Build prototypes, integrations, APIs, and production-quality software that demonstrate and deliver value.
• Apply software design principles, data structures, design patterns, and computer science fundamentals to create clean, maintainable, modular code.
• Use databases, data stores, and API integration patterns to support partner and platform requirements.
• Contribute to solutions involving emerging technologies, including AI-powered and intelligent travel experiences.
• Test, monitor, debug, and improve your code using appropriate engineering tools and practices.
• Consider security, resiliency, scalability, observability, and operational requirements when developing solutions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to coordinate input, resolve issues, and support holistic solutions across people, process, technology, and organisational needs.
• Report clearly on work status, ask thoughtful questions, and identify inefficiencies or opportunities to improve existing systems.
• Build relationships across Expedia Group, seek expertise from subject matter experts, and contribute to a collaborative engineering culture.
• Apply Expedia Group principles to your work: choose fearlessly, include consciously, trust each other, force simplicity, and go get what’s next.

Experience and Qualifications:

• 2+ years of professional software development experience with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field; or 0–2 years of experience with a master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience.
• Experience developing software in a team environment using agile practices and version control.
• Experience building and maintaining software deployed to production in a public or hybrid cloud environment.
• Strong proficiency in at least one programming language and familiarity with additional languages relevant to the role.
• Familiarity with databases, data stores, API design, and system integration.
• Understanding of moderately complex systems and how projects contribute to team and business goals.
• Experience testing, monitoring, troubleshooting, and debugging applications.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with engineers, partners, and stakeholders, including audiences with varying levels of technical knowledge.

Preferred

• Experience in forward deployment engineering, solution engineering, consulting, or customer-facing software development.
• Experience building proofs of concept, prototypes, or integrations for external partners.
• Familiarity with large language models, prompt design, AI application development, or AI evaluation.
• Experience with cloud platforms, distributed systems, observability tools, or continuous delivery practices.
• Experience working in travel technology, B2B technology, or platform-based products.

Accommodation requests

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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

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