Senior Software Development Engineer

About the role

The Senior Software Development Engineer role sits within the Universal Messaging Platform (UMP) team—Expedia Group’s core communications platform. UMP powers high-scale, reliable delivery across Email, SMS, Push, Inbox, and emerging channels, enabling timely, trusted engagement with millions of travelers worldwide.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve scalable, reliable services and components, including system design, low-level design, API design, and data modeling to support high-traffic, customer-facing and platform experiences.
• Write, review, and maintain high-quality, well-tested code, driving engineering best practices in code quality, security, observability, and performance across the team.
• Take end-to-end ownership of complex features or services, from technical design through implementation, deployment, monitoring, and iterative improvement in production.
• Collaborate closely with product, design, and cross-functional engineering teams to break down ambiguous business problems into clear technical solutions that can be reused across multiple domains.
• Safely integrate and operate AI/ML-enabled solutions that improve outcomes, including familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real world products.
• Contribute to technical direction by participating in design reviews, proposing improvements to architecture and operational processes, and mentoring other engineers to raise the overall technical bar.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience.
• 8+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Proven experience owning services or components through the full software development lifecycle, including design, implementation, deployment, and on-call or operational support.
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language and associated frameworks, with strong understanding of system design, API design, and data modeling concepts.
• Expert proficiency in Java, Kotlin, GraphQL, grpc, Spring boot
• Strong experience building distributed systems, RESTful APIs, and microservices.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure code, and DevOps practices.
• Experience working on systems that integrate with multiple services or domains, ensuring reliability, scalability, and effective observability.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing and evolving service or multi-service architectures at scale, including patterns for resiliency, fault tolerance, and performance optimization.
• Track record of leading technical design efforts, influencing architectural decisions, and driving improvements to engineering practices and operational excellence within a team or domain.
• Hands-on experience with data-driven decision making, including defining metrics, using logging/monitoring/analytics to guide iterations, and improving system health and user outcomes.
• Familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows, with experience safely integrating and operating AI/ML-enabled solutions that enhance product capabilities or developer productivity.
• Demonstrated depth in one or more technical domains (such as distributed systems, data-intensive services, or full stack web applications) while remaining adaptable to work across multiple domains as business needs evolve.

Pay

The total cash range for this position in San Jose is $199,000.00 to $278,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $318,500.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.

Benefits and Perks

Expedia Group offers benefits and perks designed to support employees and their families, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, an Employee Assistance Program, wellness and travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IATAN) membership.

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.