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.
Introduction to the Team
Supply Partner Experience (SPX) is the part of Expedia Group that builds the tools and services our lodging and travel partners use to run their business with us. Within SPX, Run The Business (RTB) teams focus on keeping those day-to-day partner experiences reliable, improving them over time, and making sure the core systems behind them are simple to operate and ready to scale. RTB AU is an Australia-based engineering team in RTB Australia, building out capabilities and workflows for our Partners across Promotions, Reviews, Loyalty Programmes, Contracting, Arrivals and Partner Data. We have a mix of Product Squads delivering innovative feature improvements, and Tech Squads focused on improving platform health and integrity, compliance, and KTLO (keeping the lights on). We also encourage AI-first solutions across your project work, day to day operations, and learning opportunities.
As a Developer in RTB AU, you will help shape the backend services and event-driven systems that sit at the heart of Expedia's partner experience, helping RTB AU product teams build on a trusted foundation for partner data, business profiles, and operational workflows. The systems you help design, build, and operate will directly influence how quickly and safely we can onboard partners, support contracting and partner-facing product experiences, and maintain reliable downstream integrations across RTB, platform, and operational domains. In this role, you will play a key part in improving reliability, observability, resilience, and cost efficiency, while contributing to cross-team technical initiatives, setting strong engineering standards across RTB AU squads, and collaborating and learning with other engineers in the effective use of modern automation and AI-assisted development practices.
In this role, you will:
Lead design and implement products and solutions that are highly scalable with high-quality, clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.
Find opportunities for process and technology improvements, and work towards adoption and implementation.
Assist with supporting Production systems (includes investigating issues and working towards resolution)
Exercise creativity and provide alternative solutions to a given problem removing roadblocks and driving issues to closure
Create/update documentation for the purpose of sharing knowledge between team members
Actively participate in group technology reviews to critique the work of self and others
Participate and formulate user story creation in partnership with the team, product managers.
Closely collaborate with Senior and Principal Developers, as well as the Product Manager, to find effective solutions to problems.
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's or Master’s in a related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience
5+ years of software development experience with a Bachelor's degree or 3+ years with a Master’s degree
Experience in an object-oriented language (e.g., Java, Kotlin) and designing, REST/grpc/graphql APIs/MCP servers.
Ability to design and build moderately complex, well-defined software systems
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with cloud-computing platforms (e.g., Amazon Web Services)
Experience with managing tier-0/tier-1 applications
Experience with both relational and non-relational data stores
Understanding of CI/CD methodologies, source control with Git, and monitoring/logging tools (e.g., Splunk, Datadog)
Experience working in an agile team environment, conducting peer reviews, and mentoring junior engineers
Experience maintaining projects in production environments, including bug fixing and troubleshooting
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
Employment opportunities and job offers at Expedia Group will always come from Expedia Group's Talent Acquisition and hiring teams. Never share sensitive personal information unless you are confident of the recipient. Expedia Group does not extend job offers via email or messaging tools to individuals with whom we have not made prior contact. Our email domain is @expediagroup.com. The official place to find and apply for roles is https://careers.expediagroup.com/jobs/ .
Equal Opportunity
Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.
