Senior Software Development Engineer - Gurugram, India - Expedia Group

    Default job background
    Full time
    Description

    Senior Software Development Engineer

    Do you thrive in an environment focused on innovation, continuous delivery and platform services? Interested in defining and designing the next generation of Transaction Services for Expedia Group?

    We are looking for a self-starter to help build the next generation of ordering services at Expedia, Inc. The Order Services team owns a unique set of services that scale for high transactional throughput to support across all brands within Expedia Inc. Our focus is on Revolutionizing Travel by using technology to manage transactions at a massive scale both on premise and in the cloud. You will be instrumental in the performance of our team to ensure that we meet the global needs of our business while limiting technical debt. Bring your passion for software engineering, test automation and metrics driven analysis and be part of our success

    This position focuses not only on implementing software solutions for state of the art e-commerce processing systems but also on being a role model to your fellow engineers. You will expand your skills in building highly scalable solutions while influencing others and raising the bar on the overall level of excellence within the team. You will also get the opportunity to serve as a subject matter expert in cross-functional feature delivery. Whether you choose to move ahead in your career to a Senior Developer or manage people, this is the perfect position to learn how to move to the next stage.

    What you'll do:

    You will draw on and expand your skills in building highly scalable solutions while influencing others and raising the bar on the overall level of self-direction within the team. You will serve as a role model and mentor to junior developers and lead by example when called upon for production support.

    What you'll do:

    • Critical thinking skills and the ability to produce across your team and beyond
    • Rock solid coding skills & Strong Object-Oriented Programming concepts, data structure, algorithms, and system-level programming (including multi-threaded programming)
    • History of building your own automation and reporting tools to provide
    • capabilities around your service
    • Ability to lead code reviews and technical design meetings
    • Proven record in technical mentoring of Software Engineers
    • Proven record in successfully delivering highly available and scalable solution with large transaction volume on a 24x7 operational cycle
    • Architectural knowledge of designing and developing software in distributed architecture for multi-tier applications
    • High degree of competency within all phases of SDLC: estimation, scheduling, design, development, testing and delivery, and maintenance.
    • Ability to articulate technical design decisions and software implementation in technical forums

    Who you are:

    • 8+ years of software development work experience (with a strong focus on Java)
    • preferred)
    • Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or in a related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience
    • 5+ years creating and supporting Web Services in a high transactional environment
    • 3+ years of developing software using dependency injection frameworks
    • First-class communication skills in written and verbal form
    • Knowledge of performance testing, application tuning and load testing
    • Prior experience of building and operating services in AWS is preferred
    • Prior experience with e-Commerce systems, Payments Solutions and Providers is also preferred
    • Experience developing fault-tolerant distributed systems is highly desirable
    • A solid grasp of Agile Software Development mechanics
    • Background in Service-Oriented Architecture implementation, service versioning, and backward compatibility