User Experience Engineer III

We are the Acquisition Marketing & Growth (AMG) team that plays a key role in shaping the first impressions of millions of travelers entering our ecosystem. We’re looking for a motivated, curious, and creative thinker to help us build and elevate the upper-funnel landing experience for customers. 

As an integral member of the AMG team, you'll design and implement engaging entry points for users coming through a range of channels—including direct traffic, paid advertising, organic SEO, SEM, and social platforms. Our goal is to craft a contextual and personalized experience that draws customers in and supports them as they explore and find the perfect travel options within the Expedia ecosystem.

What you'll do:

• Lead development of features for the traveler experience across all of EG brands’ Landing Pages 

• Explore, learn, design, and implement modular and scalable software components, based on your understanding of the EG ecosystem, complemented by current industry trends 

• Understand the business problem space, and communicate impact to technical decisions 

• Provide high-level estimates, and breakdown of tasks for the solutions proposed 

• Enable decision making to architecture, and technical challenges faced by the team 

• Document and share best practices, maintain and enhance quality of code written 

• Optimize existing observability, and monitoring solutions, and proactively identify methods to close the gap to maintain high operational excellence 

• Mentor junior developers in your chosen area of technology. 

• Actively participate and contribute to communities of practice in your area of expertise. 

Who you are:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience in the industry. 

• 5+ years of hands-on software development experience, ideally in large-scale or enterprise environments. 

• Proven experience designing, developing, and maintaining robust, scalable applications. 

• Advanced knowledge in one or more programming languages and Frontend libraries and frameworks like Javascript/Typescript, HTML/CSS, React.js, Node.js

• Good knowledge of server-side technologies: Java, Kotlin with a solid understanding of API design in GraphQL/RESTful services 

• Familiarity with cloud architecture and platforms like AWS. 

• Strong experience in unit testing, integration testing, and end-to-end testing, using frameworks and tools like JUnit, Mockito, Jest, Cypress, or Selenium. 

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools like Jenkins, Spinnaker, or GitHub Actions. 

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a demonstrated ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams. Capable of mentoring junior developers and participating in technical discussions and decision-making processes.