Senior Software Development Engineer
- Expedia
- 8 - 13 years
- Noida, Gurugram
- 1 month ago
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Job Description
- Lead and actively contribute to all phases of the software development lifecycle, including design, analysis, development, and deployment efforts for multiple enterprise application projects to tackle complex business problems.
- Deconstruct large, complex problems into manageable and achievable milestones, driving streamlined execution by the team.
- Provide technical guidance and mentoring to peers and junior engineers, helping them overcome obstacles and fostering their growth.
- Collaborate with Expedia Group leaders to architect and build robust applications, thoughtfully selecting relevant technologies to evolve the Expedia travel platform.
- Maintain, monitor, and improve our solutions and systems with a focus on service excellence; apply industry standards and new technologies to enhance efficiency, quality, and system performance.
- Research, design, and implement modular and scalable software components, leveraging your understanding of the Expedia ecosystem and current industry trends.
- Understand business goals and constraints and articulate the impact of technical decisions on outcomes.
- Propose high-level and detailed architectures for sustainable, long-term solutions.
- Provide high-level estimates and break down complex tasks into actionable steps.
- Address architectural and technical challenges, enabling informed decision-making within the team.
- Enhance observability, monitoring, and alerting mechanisms to ensure operational excellence.
- Optimize existing solutions to close gaps and maintain high-quality standards.
- Advocate for and implement software design best practices, including unit testing, programming for resiliency, and scalability.
- Coach and mentor developers, offering guidance and sharing knowledge to support their professional growth.
- Actively participate in or lead communities of practice, building expertise and fostering shared learning.
- Communicate the status of high-level projects and milestones to local tech leadership through written or oral means. Ensure thorough and complete documentation.
- Document designs, best practices, and implemented solutions for team and organizational benefit.
Experience and qualifications:
- bachelors or masters degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience.
- Technical degree preferred, with hands-on project experience.
- 8+ years of experience for Bachelors degree holders or 6+ years for Masters degree holders.
- Self-starter consistently looking to innovate and enhance customer experiences, with the ability to own solutions end-to-end.
- Strong technical proficiency, capable of problem-solving and applying critical thinking.
- Deep understanding of software design principles, algorithms, and data structures, with a commitment to technical excellence.
- Strong communication skills and highly effective collaborator.
- Able to articulate ideas to teammates, peers, and leaders, providing details and supporting ideas with data where applicable.
- Incorporate others input and feedback and strive to find common ground.
- Proven experience leading the end-to-end design and implementation of complex, multi-quarter projects.
- Hands-on experience working in decentralized teams and mentoring individuals.
- Demonstrated contributions to the engineering community, such as blog posts, open-source contributions, or tech talks.
- Proficient in backend technologies (Java, Kotlin, GraphQL/RESTful APIs).
- Experience building on cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) with sound architectural patterns and scalable, cost-efficient production-quality systems and CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
- Advanced skills in unit, integration, and end-to-end testing with tools like JUnit, Mockito, Jest, Cypress, or Selenium.
- Ability to design highly complex systems and guide cross-team integrations.
- Advocate for best practices in software design and operational excellence.
- Establish robust testing, monitoring, and alerting mechanisms.
- Solve business problems by aligning team goals with organizational needs.
- Enjoy and take pride in the work of your team, focusing on the teams success and leading by example.
- Employ systems thinking to analyze issues and implement holistic, efficient solutions.
Job Classification
Industry: IT Services & ConsultingFunctional Area / Department: Engineering - Software & QA
Role Category: Software Development
Role: Software Development - Other
Employement Type: Full time
Contact Details:
Company: ExpediaLocation(s): Noida, Gurugram
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Keyskills: Software design Backend Architecture Quality systems Software development life cycle Data structures Selenium Unit testing Open source
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