# Senior Software Development Engineer - Content Platform

Hiring organization: [Expedia Group](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/expedia-group)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/c9f0bc5e-d2e9-4d65-ad5b-64a7ecd94292

Listed on Expedia Group's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Senior
- Location: Chicago, IL
- Salary: 171500 – 240000 USD per year

## Summary

This role designs and builds backend services and APIs for Expedia's content and product catalog platform, serving hundreds of millions of assets across travel brands. It suits experienced backend engineers who enjoy system design, microservices architecture, and mentoring others in a large-scale distributed systems environment.

_Our summary, not Expedia Group's wording._

## Skills named

Apache Cassandra, API Design, CI/CD, Java, Kotlin, Microservices, Redis

## Required

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent professional experience
- 8+ years of professional software development experience
- Multiple years owning backend or full-stack services in production, including design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operations
- Experience designing and implementing microservice architectures for content or catalog domains
- Proficiency in Kotlin or Java with modern frameworks
- Strong skills with relational or NoSQL databases including schema design

## Nice to have

- Experience designing and operating large-scale, high-throughput distributed content or catalog systems
- Demonstrated leadership driving architecture and technical direction across multiple services
- Track record of improving engineering efficiency through automation, CI/CD, testing, and observability
- Familiarity with AI-driven systems and applying AI/ML to real-world products
- Experience with AI/ML techniques for content systems like classification, enrichment, or deduplication
- Experience with translation, localization, and internationalization tools

Apply on Expedia Group's site: https://expedia.wd108.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/search/job/USA---Illinois---Chicago/Senior-Software-Development-Engineer---Content-Platform_R-108163