Software Development Engineer II (Kotlin/Java/Node + React)

Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.

Why Join Us?

To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.

We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a flexible work model (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.

Introduction to team

Escapia (part of Expedia Group) empowers professional vacation rental managers and helps facilitate dream vacations for thousands of travelers worldwide. We’re looking for creative, T‑shaped engineers who go deep technically while collaborating broadly. You’ll build customer‑facing features and optimized next‑generation workflows grounded in targeted data analysis and direct customer feedback. Expect challenging problem spaces — payment processing, search optimization, guest management, property management workflow optimization, and opportunities to apply domain‑driven design, event streaming, and rock‑solid APIs that drive business efficiency. Escapia software already fuels billions in booking revenue (including Vrbo) and we’re just getting started — advancing a large, mature product into cloud‑native services supporting a $1B+ bookings business.

Join our full‑stack engineering team (React/TypeScript; .NET, Node.js, and Kotlin), organized into distributed agile pods across the US and internationally. You'll collaborate across domains including reservations, availability, owner services, and distribution.

In this role, you will:

• Develop Node / Koltlin endpoints for domain APIs including payment, search optimization, guest management, and workflow orchestration features

• Build React components/pages delivering intuitive reservation, availability, and property management workflows

• Implement GraphQL queries/mutations; consume REST services; contribute to domain‑driven schema evolution

• Optimize performance (bundle size, LCP, hydration time) informed by real user metrics & Core Web Vitals dashboards

• Write unit/integration/e2e tests (Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress) enforcing quality gates & regression safety

• Participate in design reviews; propose simplifications & deletion of unnecessary abstractions

• Improve build tooling (Vite/Webpack, linting, type checking) to enhance developer velocity

• Instrument telemetry (error tracking, RUM metrics, usage analytics) for data‑driven iteration

• Pair with designers on interaction & usability patterns leveraging customer feedback loops

• Assist in on‑call rotation for Escapia services; contribute to incident postmortems & reliability improvements

Minimum Qualifications:

• 2+ years professional software development (or equivalent project experience)

• REST API experience; exposure to GraphQL preferred

• Backend Node.js or Kotlin/Java production API experience

• GraphQL schema/resolver implementation (Apollo)

• Git workflows (branching, PR review) & CI familiarity

• Clear written & verbal communication in agile settings

Additional Qualifications:

• Good JavaScript & TypeScript/React fundamentals

• Performance profiling (Core Web Vitals, Lighthouse)

• Accessibility tooling (axe, Storybook a11y add‑ons)

• AWS (CloudFront, Lambda, ECS, S3, API Gateway)

• Docker & feature flag systems

Accommodation requests

If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, or other physical or mental health conditions, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the Accommodation Request.

We are proud to be named as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2024 and be recognized for award-winning culture by organizations like Forbes, TIME, Disability:IN, and others.

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