Have you ever had the opportunity to impact the
lives of millions of people in a meaningful way and help them enjoy time
away with their friends and families building memories?
HomeAway,
a world leader in the vacation rental industry, is the place to book
beach houses, cabins, and condos with more than two million places to
stay in 190 countries. The site makes it easy to find and book the
perfect vacation rental for any getaway, often for less than the cost of
traditional hotel accommodations.
An exciting opportunity has arisen within HomeAway for Software Engineers, located in our Madrid office.
Challenges you can work on:
- Create experiences seen by over 100million people a month: your code will impact millions of potential travelers globally
- Be part of a fast paced environment, at the cross section of travel and marketing technology industries
- Develop optimized pages to have the fastest load times on the web
- Scale services that can handle 10+million events daily
- Engineer smart services that will allow for real time in-session personalization based off user behavior and data
- Develop scalable, secure, tested and reliable applications for a distributed SOA environment
- Endless opportunities to grow your career the way you want
What you’ll do:
- Owning
new features from inception to production release, working across the
company with different teams in an agile environment
- Dedicated
to delivering tested and optimized high performance code for a
distributed SOA environment (our stack satisfies 10s of thousands of
requests per second!)
- Create and maintain quality software using
best-in-class tools in a continuous integration and delivery lifecyle:
Git, Splunk, New Relic, Sonar, Jenkins and TeamCity
- Committed to ruthlessly rewriting, refactoring and perfecting code
- Conduct peer code reviews and act as a resource for junior developers
- Find creative and simple solutions to challenging problems
Who you are:
- BS or MS in Computer ScienceEngineering or equivalent experience
- Experience with Scala/Java 8+ basedREST and service-oriented architecture
- Knowledge
of some of Dropwizard, Akka, AWS, Cassandra, Docker, Kafka, Finagle,
Linkerd, Mesos, NoSQL,ElasticSearch, Hadoop, Smaza or Spark
- Experience of TDD/BDD testing frameworks
- Experience managing and monitoring a production environment with tools such as Splunk or New Relic
- Strong
software development skills: knowledge of Agile methodologies
(Kanban/Scrum), configuration management, issue tracking, estimation
- Fluency in SQL and or NoSQL datamodels
If
you have a hunger to make a difference with one of the most loved
consumer brands in the world and to work in the dynamic travel industry,
this is the job for you.
Benefits & Perks:
- Competitive health and insurance benefits
- Competitive salary
- Annual target bonus or commission
- Paid vacation and sick time
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Free snacks and beverages
- Electronic, adjustable stand-up desk
- Casual dress
Why join us:
Expedia
Group recognizes our success is dependent on the success of our people.
We are the world's travel platform, made up of the most knowledgeable,
passionate, and creative people in our business. Our brands recognize
the power of travel to break down barriers and make people's lives
better – that responsibility inspires us to be the place where
exceptional people want to do their best work, and to provide them to
tools to do so.
Whether you're applying to work in engineering
or customer support, marketing or lodging supply, at Expedia Group we
act as one team, working towards a common goal; to bring the world
within reach. We relentlessly strive for better, but not at the cost of
the customer.We act with humility and optimism, respecting ideas big and
small. We value diversity and voices of all volumes. We are a global
organization but keep our feet on the ground so we can act fast and stay
simple. Our teams also have the chance to give back on a local level
and make a difference through our corporate social responsibility
program, Expedia Cares.
Our family of travel brands
includes:Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® PartnerSolutions,
Egencia®, trivago®,HomeAway®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®,
Wotif®,lastminute.com.au®, ebookers®,CheapTickets®, Hotwire®, Classic
Vacations®,Expedia® Media Solutions,CarRentals.com™, Expedia Local
Expert®, Expedia®CruiseShipCenters®, SilverRailTechnologies, Inc., ALICE
and Traveldoo®.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value
diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race,
religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age,
marital status, veteran status, or disability status.