Software Development Engineer Ii
Pubblicato il 01-10-2026 - Expedia Group in Lazio
At Expedia Group, we help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time.
As a global travel company powered by passionate people, trusted partnerships, and leading technology, we connect travelers, partners, and advertisers through our consumer brands, B2B network, and travel advertising business.
Here, you ll do meaningful work that helps millions of people discover, book, and experience travel with more ease, confidence, and joy.
Our five Behaviors-Traveler First, Think Big, Operate with Excellence, Ownership Mindset, and Succeed Together-help foster a supportive environment where people can grow their careers and have the flexibility, benefits, and support to do their best work.
Join us and build for travelers everywhere.
Introduction to the Team Expedia Technology teams partner with our Product teams to create innovative products, services, and tools that deliver high-quality experiences for travelers, partners, and employees.
A singular technology platform powered by data and machine learning provides secure, differentiated, and personalized experiences that build loyalty and traveler satisfaction.
Join our Loyalty engineering team and help shape loyalty experiences across Expedia Group brands, including shopping, pillar pages, checkout, and post-booking journeys.
You'll also contribute to the platform services that provide the data and capabilities powering these experiences, including future Vrbo Rewards enablement and country expansion.
In This Role, You Will Design, develop, test, deploy, and support reliable software using Kotlin or Java.
Deliver well-scoped features end to end, from requirements clarification and technical design through production validation.
Build and consume REST and GraphQL APIs and work with relevant data stores.
Contribute to loyalty platform services and traveler-facing experiences across the full journey.
Apply object-oriented design, data structures, algorithms, SOLID principles, and appropriate design patterns.
Write unit, integration, and component-level tests and contribute to continuous integration and delivery.
Instrument services with meaningful logs, metrics, alerts, and dashboards.
Investigate production issues, participate in operational support rotations, and resolve defects within established service expectations.
Collaborate with product managers, designers, data partners, and engineers across Rome, India, the US, and other locations.
Participate in code reviews,
technical discussions, documentation, pairing, and knowledge sharing.
Use AI-assisted development tools responsibly, validating output for correctness, security, privacy, performance, and maintainability.
Required Experience and Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience.
3-5 years of professional software engineering experience, with experience aligned to an SDE II scope.
Professional experience developing production software with Kotlin and/or Java.
Knowledge of object-oriented programming, collections, concurrency, error handling, and automated testing.
Experience with APIs, service integration, version control, CI/CD, code reviews, and debugging.
Experience building, deploying, and supporting software in a collaborative engineering environment.
Ability to reason about and communicate a simple service architecture, data flow, API design, and technical trade-offs.
Proficient communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
A willingness to contribute across the stack.
Experience with React, TypeScript/JavaScript, Android, or iOS is especially valuable.
Preferred Production experience with React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, including component-based architecture, accessibility, responsive design, and API integration.
Experience developing Android applications with Kotlin, Jetpack, Jetpack Compose, Coroutines/Flows, or mobile testing.
Experience developing iOS applications with Swift, UIKit or SwiftUI, concurrency, and XCTest/XCUITest.
Familiarity with cloud-based systems, distributed services, secure software development, observability, reliability, performance, and accessibility.
Experience working in Agile, cross-functional teams and an interest in growing across the technology stack.
Why Expedia Group?
You'll work with collaborative teams solving meaningful problems in travel technology.
We value curiosity, simplicity, inclusive collaboration, continuous learning,
and ownership of outcomes.
Expedia Group is committed to creating an inclusive work environment and considers all qualified applicants without regard to protected characteristics.
The total cash range for this position in Rome is €46,****** to €64,******.
Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to €73,******, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.
Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual's knowledge, skills, and experience.
Pay ranges may be modified in the future.
Benefits And Perks Expedia Group offers benefits and perks designed to support employees and their families, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, an Employee Assistance Program, wellness and travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IATAN) membership.
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About Expedia Group Expedia Group includes three flagship consumer brands - Expedia, Hotels.com, and Vrbo - along with a leading B2B travel business and travel advertising offerings.
Across our brands and business, we help travelers explore the world with confidence and ease.
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