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# Senior Software Development Engineer

- **Company:** Expedia Inc.
- **Location:** Austin, TX, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $184,500.0 - $295,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** A/B Testing, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis, Automation of Tests, Data Structures, Machine Learning, Performance Tuning, Reliability Engineering, Service-Oriented Architecture, Software Engineering, Data Logging, Backend, Information Technology, Production Code, Front End Software Development, Api Design
- **Published:** October 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=9cf2d029550befe5

## 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.
 * Demonstrated ownership of services, components, or features across design, implementation, quality, deployment, and operational support within a product or domain area.
 * Strong proficiency in software engineering fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, system design (LLD), API design, and data modeling, with hands-on experience applying them in production systems. Hands-on experience with modern backend and frontend technologies, service architectures, and AI-driven tools or workflows that enhance developer productivity or product capabilities.
*, * Experience designing and evolving multi-service or full-stack architectures, including well-structured APIs, data models, frontend integrations, and service-to-service integration patterns.

 * Demonstrated success improving high-traffic or customer-facing systems through performance tuning, resilience hardening, reliability engineering, and optimization across backend and frontend layers.
 * Strong operational excellence practices, including instrumentation, logging, metrics, observability, alerting, on-call participation, and incident response.
 * Experience using experimentation, feature flags, A/B testing, analytics, and service metrics to guide technical and product decisions and measure delivered impact.
 * Experience integrating or extending AI/ML-enabled capabilities across backend services and frontend experiences, including responsible adoption of AI-driven components and guiding teams in the effective, safe use of AI tooling for development, testing, and operations.

## Description

* Design, build, and evolve backend services and supporting frontend experiences, including system design (LLD), API design, and data modeling for scalable, secure, and reliable solutions.
 * Implement high-quality production code across backend and frontend components, emphasizing maintainability, automated testing, observability, and operational excellence.
 * Collaborate with product, design, and partner engineering teams to translate customer and business requirements into robust technical solutions, reusable service integrations, and intuitive user experiences.
 * Own and improve the end-to-end lifecycle of services and features, including development, testing, deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, and incident resolution.
 * Apply data, metrics, experimentation, and analytics to prioritize work, validate hypotheses, and continuously improve system performance, reliability, and user experience. Safely integrate and operate AI/ML-enabled solutions that improve outcomes, including familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real-world products.
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