Senior Software Development Engineer - Payments

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Senior Software Development Engineer - Payments

Expedia Global Payments team is looking for a talented Software engineer to join the Financial Pipeline team and help lead the development of EG’s financial pipeline platform. We use state of the art technology to stream real time financial events from our production ecommerce systems to power our big data platform, reactive streaming applications, reporting, business analysis, platform health monitoring, revenue recognition, invoicing, and tax remittance. These event streams are mission critical to our leadership team’s mission to provide the best possible service to our travelers and partners. 

As a senior member of the team, you will develop, test, support, and operate Java services and APIs built with Dropwizard, Kafka, MongoDB, and Amazon Web Services. You will integrate with EG’s highly distributed SOA, composed of hundreds of separate services and applications, fronted by a highly adaptable web layer and backed by the latest data science and machine learning platforms. You will work in a motivated, fast-moving agile team and communicate directly with stakeholders, product management, and leadership. You will also be a part of the progressive, inclusive development team, where learning is treasured, shared and innovation is rewarded. 

What You'll Do:

• Extend outside of direct organization and collaborate with peers across a senior level organization

• Identify problems impacting developer productivity, find solutions, operationalize them, take ownership, and evangelize them

• Successfully conduct day-to-day work and solve complex issues in your own specific technical engineering area. 

• Serve as a guide to others by sharing and helping junior associates in their duties. 

• Creatively test and maintain software applications and related programs and procedures by using a variety of software development tools following design requirements of customer. 

• Research and recommend frameworks and architectural/code design patterns.

• Advocate for Quality Excellence (such as unit testing, establishing SLAs, programming for resiliency and scalability).

• Facilitate collaboration with different stakeholders with varied perspectives to develop effective solutions to issues .

• Spot outmoded methods of operation with current systems and design plans for disrupting them in a non-disruptive manner.

• Report on status of difficult or high-level projects to local tech leadership via written or oral means. Ensure documentation is complete. 

Who You Are:​

• Bachelor's degree or Masters in a related Technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience.

• 5+ years of experience in software development

• Experience working in at least 2 multi-quarter projects as a part of a decentralized team and project.

• Ability to identify business problems at the project level and team level and design solutions that are easily testable and observable. 

• Strong understanding of how team goals fit a business need. 

• Strong in multiple technologies or languages and is an expert in a given domain. 

• Able to justify technology choices to technical and non-technical observers making well defined technology choices. 

• Guiding integrations across teams within business unit. 

• Guides others in design of software that is easily testable and observable. 

• Ability to identify and advocate for project quality via testing, monitoring and alerting at the project level. 

• Ability to establish operational excellence metrics at the team level.

The total cash range for this position in Austin is $173,000.00 to $242,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $277,000.00, 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.

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