Software Develpment Engineer III

Overview

As a Software Development Engineer III on the Identity Profile team, you will own critical, high-scale services supporting Universal Profile data, APIs, business events, sign-in, and checkout across Expedia Group brands. You will lead design and delivery from design documentation through production rollout while improving reliability, latency, operational excellence, and engineering quality.

What you'll do

• Lead design and implement highly scalable products and solutions using high-quality, clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.
• Own multiple business-critical services and lead design and delivery end to end from design documentation to production rollout.
• Find opportunities for process and technology improvements and work towards adoption and implementation.
• Assist with supporting production systems, including investigating issues and working towards resolution.
• Exercise creativity, provide alternative solutions, remove roadblocks, and drive issues to closure.
• Create and update documentation to share knowledge between team members.
• Actively participate in group technology reviews to critique the work of self and others.
• Participate in and formulate user story creation in partnership with the team and product managers.
• Closely collaborate with Senior and Principal Developers and the Product Manager to find effective solutions to problems.
• Give thorough design and code reviews and mentor SDE 1/2 engineers.
• Help improve test coverage, including E2E and performance testing, documentation, and AI-assisted workflows.
• Improve alerting, runbooks, and incident learnings, and take part in on-call.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's or Master’s in a related technical field, or equivalent related professional experience.
• 5+ years of software development experience with a Bachelor's degree or 3+ years with a Master’s degree.
• Experience in an object-oriented language, such as Java or Kotlin.
• Experience designing REST, gRPC, or GraphQL APIs/MCP servers.
• Ability to design and build moderately complex, well-defined software systems.

Nice to have

• Experience with cloud-computing platforms, such as Amazon Web Services.
• Experience managing tier-0/tier-1 applications.
• Experience with both relational and non-relational data stores.
• Understanding of CI/CD methodologies, source control with Git, and monitoring/logging tools, such as Splunk or Datadog.
• Experience working in an agile team environment, conducting peer reviews, and mentoring junior engineers.
• Experience maintaining projects in production environments, including bug fixing and troubleshooting.

Details

• Location: Gurgaon, India.
• The role includes on-call participation.