Software Development Engineer III - Brisbane, Australia - Expedia Group

Description

Software Development Engineer III

Are you passionate about creating web applications and contributing to a full-stack feature area? If you like to challenge yourself and push to find novel ways of solving problems, then you're looking in the right place Our Contracting domain team is searching for a software engineer to contribute to our domain services and web user experiences.

The team's mission is to deliver exceptional user experiences to our supply partners, enabling them to sign up and participate in the Expedia Group marketplace. The software we are developing captures agreements between Expedia Group and our partners and is used by other feature domains to validate their transactions against the stored agreements.

Our work is critical to driving the continued growth of our lodging business.

What you'll do:

• You will team-up with peers across the organization to build an understanding of project dependencies and solve problems together
  You will seek to build new technical skills
• You will share your skills and knowledge with others on your team to increase effectiveness
• You will understand the relationships between applications, databases and our technology platforms
• You will write code that is clean, maintainable, optimized, modular and with good naming conventions. You will also use software frameworks to write simpler code
• You will lead our code evolution through code reviews and design reviews
• You will identify opportunities around policies/ processes to increase efficiency across organizational boundaries
• You will spot areas of inefficiency in our code and processes and offer suggestions for improvements
• You will compile and generate documentation for our major technical initiatives and communicate that work to larger groups

Who you are:

• You have a bachelors or masters degree in a related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience
• 4+ years experience as a software engineer mentoring junior engineers and applying new engineering principles to improve existing systems including leading complex projects
• Strong knowledge of multiple programming languages and/or one language with multiple technology implementations. Java/Kotlin and JavaScript/ReactJS strongly preferred
• Able to identify strengths and weaknesses among languages for particular use cases
• Previous experience creating API's to be used by other groups in your organization
• Demonstrated ability to select among available technologies to implement and solve for project needs
• Understanding how your team interacts with other teams
• Able to understand and design moderately complex systems
• Understanding of testing and monitoring tools
• Ability to test, debug, and fix issues within established SLAs
• Able to design software that is easily testable and observable
• Experienced at monitoring the health and performance of your software in production environments
• Understanding of how your teams' goals support a specific business need
• Identifies business problems at the project level and provides solutions