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?
That is what we do here at HomeAway.com,
an Expedia Inc. company. We are the leading vacation rental website in
the world with more than one million online bookable vacation rentals.
Our mission is to make every vacation rental in the world available to
every traveler in the world through our online marketplace and we're
committed to helping families and friends find the perfect vacation
rental to create unforgettable travel experiences together.
Challenges you can work on:
Develop fast, highly available and reliable applications and services by scaling them to more than 60k requests per second
Engineer smart services that will allow for in-session personalization based off user behavior and data
Build
world class feature by leveraging realtime user behavior feedback data
loops and A/B testing to better understand our customer's’ needs before
they do
Share
your work with your peers and participate in our Internal Open Source
by delivering high quality code that levels up your team and the entire
organization
Build component based web UI architectures with modern JavaScript libraries (Hapi.JS, React.JS, Backbone.JS)
Dockerize our apps and services for cloud deployment
Scale our public API to allow other partners to leverage HomeAway services & experiences on third party sites
Collect millions of traveler reviews that will help other travelers to choose their dream vacations
Technologies we use:
Java 8, Linux, Jetty, Dropwizard, SQLServer, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, Mongo, AWS, Mesos, Docker, Hadoop, Kafka, Samza, KStream
Requirements:
Experience with large scale streaming systems like Kafka
Experience with different data storage mechanisms like Cassandra or Mongo
Analytical problem solver who is passionate about delivering high quality software
Excellent communication skills with ability to work well cross-functionally across multiple departments in english
Knowledge of Agile methodologies, such as Scrum and Kanban
BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
Responsibilities:
Provide hands on technical leadership and participate in architectural decision-making
Commit to ruthlessly rewriting, refactoring, and perfecting code
Drive
new features from inception to production, working across the company
with product managers, UX designers and other stakeholders
Deliver
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
Develop quality scalable, tested and reliable applications using industry best practices
Work with Test Engineers, product management and operations in an agile environment
Participate in resolution of production issues and lead efforts toward solutions
Grow a performant production environment in a way that makes the system increasingly reliable
Participate in our inner source culture (Internal Open Source)
Showcase your work on our tech blog and internal & external conferences
Conduct peer code reviews and act as a resource for junior developers