Expedia Group
Software Development Engineer III - Chicago, IL
USA - Illinois - Chicago, USA · Mid
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About the role
- This role is primarily backend-focused (approximately 70-80%), with some frontend development (20-30%) supporting customer-facing experiences built in React.
- Your work will directly influence advertiser experiences and shared capabilities across the platform.
Responsibilities
- As a Software Development Engineer III, you will play a critical role in building and scaling high-performance systems that support Expedia Group's expanding advertising network.
- You will contribute to a multi-year initiative to design and evolve a unified advertising platform, consolidating multiple ad products into a single, scalable system.
- Design, build, test, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs that power the advertiser portal and enable third-party integrations
- Own features and services end-to-end-from design and implementation to deployment and operational support
- Apply strong coding fundamentals to deliver high-quality, maintainable, and extensible solutions
- Participate in system design, low-level design, API design (including GraphQL), and data modeling
- Build customer-facing features (primarily backend-driven, with some React frontend contributions)
- Drive improvements in scalability, performance, and reliability for high-traffic advertiser systems
- Collaborate with engineering, product, operations, and globally distributed teams to translate business needs into technical solutions
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- Expertise in Java or Kotlin and familiarity with React
- Experience with API design and consumption, including REST and/or GraphQL
Nice to have
- Experience with event streaming or messaging systems (e.g., Flink, Kafka, or similar real-time data processing technologies)
- Demonstrated ability to improve service quality through performance tuning, observability, and automation
- Experience using metrics and data to inform engineering decisions and measure impact
- Familiarity with AI-driven systems and/or AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude)
- Background working on large-scale, high-throughput systems or platforms
- A strong sense of ownership, with a track record of delivering solutions end-to-end
- Interest in solving complex problems in a fast-growing, high-impact area of the business
- What You'll Bring
Skills
- Contribute to the development of a unified ads platform, delivering reusable capabilities across multiple advertising products
- Troubleshoot production issues and improve system health through monitoring, debugging, automation, and observability practices
- Write secure, well-tested code, participate in code reviews, and follow engineering best practices
- Leverage AI-enabled solutions and AI-assisted development tools to improve developer productivity and product outcomes
Compensation
- $70k-$80k
Company info
- At Expedia Group, we help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time.
- Our Team We are the Expedia Group Advertising team.
- We are unable to offer relocation assistance for this role.
Equal opportunity
- Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce.
- This employer participates in E-Verify.
- The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Visa & Work Authorization
- The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.
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