Software Development Engineer II -(Backend)
Role Overview
Join Expedia Group's Loyalty India engineering team, which builds the NorthStar Loyalty Platform for rewards, membership, and earn/burn experiences.
The team works across customer-facing interfaces and backend services, and collaborates with product, design, and engineering partners across geographies.
The role description focuses on backend-heavy full-stack services for the Modern Checkout platform, serving hotels, flights, activities, and packages globally.
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Team and role
Join Expedia Group's Loyalty India engineering team, which builds the NorthStar Loyalty Platform for rewards, membership, and earn/burn experiences.
The team works across customer-facing interfaces and backend services, and collaborates with product, design, and engineering partners across geographies.
The role description focuses on backend-heavy full-stack services for the Modern Checkout platform, serving hotels, flights, activities, and packages globally.
What you will do
- Design, build, and operate checkout services and platform capabilities.
- Own delivery from requirements clarification and low-level design through APIs, data models, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.
- Develop cloud-native microservices and integrate them with hosted data stores, caches, and streaming systems.
- Contribute to service resilience, observability, performance, CI/CD, automated testing, and operational readiness.
- Help decompose legacy monoliths into reusable services across brands and domains.
- Use AI-assisted tools and workflows, and safely operate AI/ML-enabled solutions.
Minimum qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent related professional experience.
- At least 2 years of relevant professional experience.
- Demonstrated full-lifecycle ownership of services or features in a cloud environment.
- Strong coding, problem-solving, and analytical skills; understanding of data structures, algorithms, and time/space complexity.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with microservices or service-oriented architecture on AWS or a similar cloud, and integrations such as Redis, DynamoDB, or Kinesis.
- Experience operating high-availability, high-throughput, mission-critical services with strong observability, reliability, and incident-response practices.
- Hands-on experience with JavaScript, React, and REST or GraphQL service interaction patterns.
- Familiarity with AI-driven systems, AI-assisted coding tools, or safely integrating AI-powered capabilities into production services.
Technology context
- The team works with Java and Spring Boot backend services, React.js, and the Aerofoil/SDUI framework.
- The role lists Kotlin, Java, or C#/.NET as example languages and AWS-hosted data stores, caches, and streaming systems.
- AI development tools mentioned include Claude, Codex, and Cursor.
About Expedia Group
Expedia Group operates Expedia, Hotels.com, Vrbo, a B2B travel business, and travel advertising offerings.
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