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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Software Development Engineer - InsurTech - **Company:** Expedia Inc. - **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $184,500.0 - $258,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Adobe InDesign, Artificial Intelligence, Software Quality, Decision Support Systems, Software Design Documents, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Fault Tolerance, Recommender Systems, Service-Oriented Architecture, Software Engineering, Data Logging, Cloud Platform System, Containerization, Information Technology, Code Testing, Api Design, Restful APIs, Programming Languages, Microservices - **Published:** July 17, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/16761462-3d67-4d29-874e-f615ade9e287 ## About the Role * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience. * 8+ years of relevant professional experience. * Experience leading the end-to-end technical design and delivery of complex software initiatives through the full software development lifecycle, including design, implementation, deployment, and operational support. * Deep expertise in one or more modern programming languages and associated frameworks, with strong understanding of system design, API design, and data modeling concepts. * Strong experience building distributed systems, RESTful APIs, and microservices in cloud environments. * Experience with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows, including safely integrating and operating AI/ML-enabled solutions that enhance product capabilities, recommendations, developer productivity, or operational workflows. * Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure code, containerization technologies, and DevOps practices. * Experience working on systems that integrate with multiple services or domains, ensuring reliability, scalability, and effective observability. * Demonstrated ability to communicate technical decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences., * Master's degree with 6+ years of experience in software development. * Experience designing and evolving service or multi-service architectures at scale, including resiliency, fault tolerance, and performance optimization.full-stack decision-making * Demonstrated leadership through mentorship, engineering community contributions, and cross-team collaboration. * Hands-on experience with data-driven decision making, including defining metrics, using logging, monitoring, and analytics to guide iterations, and improving system health and user outcomes. * A strong understanding of business needs, with a track record of identifying and solving team-level technical and organizational challenges. * Demonstrated depth in one or more technical domains such as distributed systems, data-intensive services, recommendation systems, or full stack applications, while remaining adaptable across domains as business needs evolve. ## Description * Design, build, and evolve scalable, reliable services and software components, including system design, low-level design, API design, and data modeling to support customer-facing and platform experiences. * Lead the technical design and delivery of complex, multi-quarter initiatives across InsurTech systems that support shopping, booking, servicing, and claims journeys. * Collaborate across teams and lead communities of practice to foster shared learning, engineering consistency, and cross-functional alignment. * Take end-to-end ownership of complex features or services, from technical design through implementation, deployment, monitoring, and iterative improvement in production. * Write, review, and maintain high-quality, well-tested code, while driving best practices in code quality, security, observability, resilience, and performance. * Guide junior engineers and provide technical mentorship that raises the overall engineering bar for the team. * Break down ambiguous business problems into clear technical solutions that can be reused across multiple domains and services. * Safely integrate and operate AI/ML-enabled solutions that improve traveler and business outcomes, including applying AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows to production-grade software products. * Partner with product, analytics, and engineering teams to apply data-driven decision making, define success metrics, and improve system health and user outcomes over time. * Contribute to architectural direction and operational excellence by participating in design reviews, proposing improvements, and helping shape long-term technical strategy. ## Related Videos - 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