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.
We're the Insurtech team at Expedia Group, and we're on a mission to redefine how traveler’s peace of mind experience during their journeys. Whether it's trip protection, flight cancellations, or medical emergencies abroad, our goal is to deliver seamless, reliable, and intelligent insurance experiences across Expedia's suite of brands (like Expedia.com, Vrbo, Hotels.com, and more).
We work closely with different insurance suppliers to onboard their products into our systems and make them available to customers during various booking journeys — such as during checkout, post-purchase, and even through trip management pages. Our team ensures the right protection is offered at the right time, making travel safer and more confident for millions of users.
In This Role, You Will
- Build and maintain robust, scalable backend systems that power a diverse portfolio of insurance products across multiple countries and markets.
- Design and support microservices that can handle high throughput and dynamic scaling demands in a global production environment.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative fintech solutions, including features like Price Drop Promise, flexible cancellations, and other emerging financial products.
- Ensure production stability through proactive monitoring, debugging, and performance tuning of backend services.
- Develop and maintain APIs and services that integrate with both relational and non-relational databases to support a wide range of use cases.
- Write clean, maintainable code using Java, leveraging modern frameworks and cloud-native technologies.
- Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and technical planning to ensure high-quality software delivery.
- Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement by identifying inefficiencies and proposing scalable, system-wide enhancements.
- Share knowledge and mentor peers, helping to elevate engineering practices across the team.
- Communicate technical insights and operational updates clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Experience And Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience.
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with a strong focus on backend development and production systems.
- Strong Proficiency in Java and working knowledge of Python.
- Experience designing and operating microservices in cloud environments, with a focus on scalability, availability, and performance.
- Hands-on experience with both relational (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and non-relational (e.g., MongoDB, DynamoDB) databases.
- Proven ability to maintain and troubleshoot production systems, including monitoring, debugging, and incident response.
- Experience working on fintech or transaction-heavy products is a strong plus.
- Familiarity with distributed systems, API design, and modern software development practices.
- Strong understanding of software testing, observability, and operational excellence.
- Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset, with experience working in cross-functional and distributed teams.
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.
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