Principal Software Development Engineer
- Expedia Group
- 10 - 15 years
- Noida, Gurugram
- 18 days ago
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Job Description
- Lead by example, advocating for software engineering best practices, engineering excellence, coding standards, and Agile methodologies within teams.
- Deep knowledge of entire system and can jump into code in any component and fire fight and contribute.
- Take architectural ownership for various critical components and systems
- Develop north star vision for domain in which you are focused.
- Combine and share knowledge and skills in more than one functional area to promote
effectiveness in the department or business unit/function. - Participate in active mentorship and rising talent identification.
- Interpret internal/external business challenges and recommend integration of the appropriate systems, applications and technology to provide a fully functional solution to a business problem.
- Champion prioritized initiatives across the local organization and work with others across EG to investigate those initiatives.
- Communicate and document solutions and design decisions
- Establish and lead high standards in API development, service contract design, and protocol selection, leveraging REST for simplicity and flexibility, and introducing gRPC for high-performance internal communication and rapid service-to-service interactions.
- Drive technical strategy and execution, leading technology adoption and strategic architectural decisions.
- Identify opportunities for improvement in process, tooling, and architecture, proactively driving technical advancements and innovations.
- Perform code reviews and apply software development best practices to maintain code quality, consistency, and maintainability across teams.
- Drive results, hold accountability for deliverables, and take ownership to ensure projects are delivered on-time with high-quality standards.
Who you are:
- Bachelor s Degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, preferably in distributed, large-scale enterprises and cloud-native environments.
- Deep expertise in designing robust, scalable microservice architectures and APIs.
- Solid experience developing software solutions in Java and Kotlin.
- Extensive experience with cloud platforms like AWS.
- Experience with container technologies (Kubernetes) and CI/CD tools/processes.
- Strong understanding and implementation of best practices for security, scalability, performance, reliability, and monitoring.
- Excellent technical leadership skills, with experience mentoring and guiding engineers to align on technical strategy.
- Outstanding communication, collaboration, and presentation skills, able to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences effectively.
Strong Preference: Proven experience in the online travel or e-commerce industry, particularly backend systems handling significant scale and traffic (high throughput) with low latency
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: Expedia GroupLocation(s): Noida, Gurugram
Keyskills: Career development Backend Architecture Coding Talent acquisition Agile Manager Technology E-commerce Monitoring
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