Expedia Software Engineer Jobs in Bothell, WA (NOW HIRING)

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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.

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 III position is part of the Payments Reconciliation team within Expedia Global Payments, under the Book-to-Trip division. This team builds and maintains consumer reconciliation services and the administrative tools used to configure the entire consumer payments ecosystem, ensuring operational health of payment processing on the platform.

Our services are designed with high security, scalability, and availability in mind, supporting both pay-in and pay-out transactions on a global scale. As a key engineer on this team, you'll apply your passion for backend development, cloud computing, and modern engineering practices to solve real-world challenges that impact millions of travelers worldwide.

In this role, you will:

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend payment services that support Expedia's global travel platform

• Apply software design principles, data structures and/or design patterns and computer science fundamentals to write code that is clean, maintainable, optimized, modular with good naming conventions

• Implement secure data handling practices to protect payment information and meet compliance standards

• Recommend and apply architectural patterns or GenAI capabilities to improve system design and innovation

• Enhance service reliability through observability, automation, and continuous operational improvements

• Lead and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact features aligned with Expedia's strategic goals

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or Master's in a related technical field, or equivalent related professional experience

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with significant hands-on experience building and operating distributed cloud services

• Proficiency in Java/J2EE, C#, or similar object-oriented languages, with hands-on experience integrating services with relational and NoSQL databases

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure/test automation, and delivering features in Agile development environments

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working on payment platforms or implementing backend services leveraging GenAI technologies

• Experience contributing to multiple multi-quarter, cross-team projects

• Experience supporting complex distributed systems in production through monitoring, debugging, incident resolution, and root-cause analysis

• Demonstrated experience designing and deploying scalable services in a cloud environment (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP)

Please note thatthis role is only available in Seattle, WA, 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.

The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $146,000.00 to $204,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $233,500.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.

Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual's knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.

Expedia Group is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to support employees and their families, including medical/dental/vision, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program. To fuel each employee's passion for travel, we offer a wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and an International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership. View our full list of benefits.

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