Software Development Engineer II at Expedia in Austin, TX

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.

Our Technology Team partners with teams across Expedia Group 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. 

Introduction to the Team

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 Software Development Engineer II position is part of the Servicing team, which builds and supports Web and Native App traveler self-service experiences for all Expedia brands and partners. In this role, you will design, build, and operate servicing experiences across web and native apps, collaborating closely with Product, XD, and Program Management.
You will contribute to the technical design and implementation of scalable services and user experiences in the traveler Servicing space, including applying AI- and agentic-driven capabilities to help travelers resolve their needs quickly and intuitively. As an SDE II, you will be a hands-on engineer, owning features end-to-end and helping to elevate engineering practices on the team through high-quality code, testing, and operational excellence.

In this role, you will:

• Design, develop, test, and deploy software solutions for defined services, applying solid coding practices and effective code reviews to maintain high quality and reliability

• Contribute to low-level system design, API design, and data modeling for services and components, ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with architectural guidelines

• Troubleshoot and resolve issues across the software development lifecycle, including debugging, performance tuning, and improving operational stability of owned services

• Collaborate with peers, technical leads, and partner teams to break down requirements, estimate work, and deliver features that support multiple products or domains

• Safely integrate and operate AI/ML‑enabled solutions that improve outcomes, including using AI‑driven tools in development workflows and validating their outputs for correctness and safety

• Build familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and apply AI/ML concepts to real world products where appropriate, ensuring secure, compliant, and reliable adoption

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience

• 2+ years of relevant professional experience

• Professional software development experience applying object-oriented or functional programming, data structures, and algorithms to build and maintain production services or applications

• Experience owning components or services through the full development lifecycle, including design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operational support

• Proficiency in system design at the component level, including API design, data modeling, and integration patterns within a service or small set of related services, including familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real world products

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2+ years of full‑stack development experience across front‑end and back‑end services

• Recent hands-on experience building and operating Node.js + React-based applications in production

• Experience implementing and maintaining GraphQL-based backends

• Experience designing and implementing service APIs and data models consumed by multiple teams or products

• Experience running production services with monitoring, alerting, and on-call participation (e.g., pager rotation)

Please note that this role is only available in the following locations: Austin, TX in alignment with our flexible work model which requires employees to be in-office at least three days a week. We are unable to offer relocation assistance for this role.

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.