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.

About the Team:

The Checkout team owns the booking experience across Expedia Group brands — the web checkout UI, the API layer that powers it, and the conversion funnel that every trip flows through. We ship behind experiments, measure everything, and treat conversion, reliability, and speed as product features.

In this role, you will:

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain high-quality user interface software that delivers reliable, accessible, and intuitive customer experiences.

• Translate product requirements into scalable technical solutions using modern frontend technologies, applying sound software engineering practices throughout the development lifecycle.

• Contribute to low-level system design, API design, data modeling, and technical decisions that support maintainable and resilient applications.

• Collaborate across engineering, product, design, and other technical domains to deliver outcomes and apply your expertise flexibly across multiple problem spaces.

• Safely integrate and operate AI/ML-enabled solutions that improve product and engineering outcomes, applying foundational AI/ML concepts to real-world products and workflows.

• Participate in code reviews, automated testing, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement to strengthen software quality, performance, security, and operational reliability.

Experience and Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

• 2+ years of professional software development experience, including building and maintaining user interface applications.

• Experience owning features or components within a service or application, from design and implementation through testing, deployment, and support.

• Proficiency with frontend software development, API integration, data modeling, version control, automated testing, and debugging.

• Familiarity with low-level system design and developing maintainable, reliable, and secure software solutions.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience delivering user interface products at scale, with a focus on performance, accessibility, usability, and operational excellence.

• Demonstrated ability to make data-driven technical decisions, diagnose complex issues, and improve the reliability and maintainability of production applications.

• Experience contributing to architecture and design decisions across multiple services or technical domains while collaborating effectively with partner teams.

• Practical experience using AI-assisted development tools or applying AI/ML concepts to improve real-world product capabilities, engineering workflows, or customer outcomes.

• Experience safely integrating, monitoring, and operating AI/ML-enabled features within user interface applications.

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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