Data Engineer

Overview

Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.

Why Join Us?

To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.

We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a flexible work model (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.

Introduction to the Team

The Competitive Intelligence Data Platform team is responsible for building high‑quality data products that can be leveraged by Pricing, Marketing Managers, analysts, and ML scientists to power use cases that optimise EG's inventory, availability, and pricing in support of multiple teams across the EG business.

We are looking for a Data Engineer with experience in AI capabilities in building data products and applications, who can craft, develop, and own the next generation of scalable real-time and batch data products and services.

In This Role, You Will

• Develop fast, scalable, highly available, and reliable competitive intelligence software that identifies gaps in EG's performance compared to its competitors across multiple lines of business.
• Work with Product managers to understand requirements and create data products with real time and batch access patterns
• Leverage AI/LLM capabilities to gain insights from CI data.
• Apply AI/LLM capabilities to help increasing help developer efficiency
• Dockerise our apps and services for cloud deployment
• Scale our batch datasets to allow for fast and accurate data analytics
• Backend development building applications from concept to completion
• Dedicated to delivering tested and optimised high performance code for a distributed SOA environment
• Develop quality scalable, tested, and reliable applications using industry standard methodologies
• Build and maintain quality software using world-class tools: Git, Splunk, Datadog,
• Participate in resolution of production issues and lead efforts toward solutions
  
  

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or in a related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience
• 2+ years of proven experience in related field
• Technologies: Java, Scala, Spark, Kafka, Sql, Linux, Airflow, Hive/Iceberg, AWS
• AI/LLM Ecosystem: Multiple LLMs, AI agents, RAGs, AI Driven Engineering
• Practical experience building or integrating LLM-based automations or AI agents
• Understanding of MCP servers, RAG, vector embeddings, and context design
• Building internal AI developer tools or orchestrators
• Experience building data pipelines with data from event streams, on distributed data systems (AWS/Hadoop)
• Batch and stream processing experience using Spark, Kafka
• Experience building data products at scale, both batch and realtime
• You love the sight of a long list of automated test suites going green
• You value strong pull request reviews, understand when to stand your ground and when to let go
• You are a self-starter who is highly organised, communicative, quick learner, and team-oriented
  
  

If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, or other physical or mental health conditions, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the Accommodation Request.

We are proud to be named as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2024 and be recognized for award-winning culture by organizations like Forbes, TIME, Disability:IN, and others.

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