Principal Engineer Are you looking for a new challenge? Are you passionate about Travel, Technology, and solving tough problems for the Customer? Does building a highly scalable platform linking customers, suppliers and travelers from different channels like chat, mobile web and voice interfaces to intelligent virtual agents excite you? Are you excited about the opportunity to provide technical leadership to a team of engineers? Do you like to tackle a variety of Business and Technology problems? If so, here is an excellent opportunity for you. As a Principal Software Development Engineer, within CCaas team, you will be creating solutions and providing technical leadership to a team dedicated to building foundational core services for the Service platform supporting multiple brands and lines of business. In addition, you will be contributing to building the Travel Connect platform which has a wider scope across Expedia’s core travel platform. In this role, you will focus on enabling solutions for domain teams to seamlessly onboard to the platform, from conceptualization to design and implementation. As a principal software engineer, you will be driving the thought leadership in this space to build a first-class approach to enable success of the domain teams. What you'll do: Build relationships with engineering and product leaders across the organization to understand business problems and apply a technology lens to resolve them Coaching and mentoring: Combine and share knowledge and skills in more than one functional area to promote efficiency in the department or business unit/function Interpret internal/external business challenges and recommend integration of the appropriate systems, applications and technology to provide a fully functional solution to a business problem Master software design with the best methods, shape coding methodologies and best methods and promote adoption of new platform technologies Enable optimum organizational efficiency by taking a whole systems approach and thinking across boundaries to identify which policies/processes should be standardized and which should differ Identify when new trends may be too disorderly for a reasonable implementation or spot the ephemerality of new trends Champion prioritized goals and work with others across Expedia Group to investigate those initiatives. Ensure documentation is not overwhelming or obsolete Provide leadership, technical direction, and architectural input into product vision and roadmap development Work across global teams for Activities to drive towards desired north star architecture Who you are: Bachelor's or Masters in a related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience Presents new technology choice to technical and non-technical observers, able to guide others to make well defined technology choices Understands systems being created across the team and how your own business unit would integrate with them Very hands on and able to understand, develop and design highly sophisticated systems Ability to establish standards for operational excellence and code quality at a multi-project level Drives principles and practices in design of software that is easily testable and observable Experience building high scale distributed cloud-based microservice architectures Strong background in third-party cloud services, especially Amazon AWS technologies and UI development expertise using React, node JS is a plus Strong experience with backend technologies such as Java, Kotlin, Scala, client / server architecture and domain driven design Strong Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structure, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis Effective coaching and leadership skills and an ability to lead engineering projects across a diverse organization with global decentralized teams Strong communication and presentation experience and the ability to explain technical details and challenges to a wide variety of people Ability to look at solutions in creative ways, recognize opportunities to innovate, and engage partners in a vision and strategy Experience in full-stack software development across multiple technologies, languages, and frameworks At Expedia Group, we believe in bringing people together and creating an inclusive workplace where everyone belongs and can do their best work. We care about our employees’ safety and wellbeing, so we’re requiring new hires in the U.S. to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and present acceptable proof of vaccination before their start date as a condition of employment. Expedia Group will consider requests for a reasonable accommodation as required under applicable law. About Expedia Group Expedia Group (NASDAQ: EXPE) powers travel for everyone, everywhere through our global platform. Driven by the core belief that travel is a force for good, we help people experience the world in new ways and build lasting connections. We provide industry-leading technology solutions to fuel partner growth and success, while facilitating memorable experiences for travelers. 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