Android Engineer II - Air Shopping

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 Team

Our Technology Team partners with teams across Expedia Group to create innovative products services and tools to deliver high-quality experiences for travelers partners and our employees. A singular technology platform powered by data and machine learning provides secure differentiated and personalized experiences that drive loyalty and traveler satisfaction.

This Android Engineer II role is part of the Air Shopping team which sits within our Technology division. The Air Shopping team focuses on creating a personalized air shopping and comparison experience that empowers travelers to confidently choose the best flight fare and ancillaries for their journey by investing in smart shopping flexible search personalized search and comparison and merchandising of air deals and ancillaries. In this role you will contribute to building and optimizing mobile experiences that bring these capabilities to life for travelers improving how they discover compare and select flights on our apps.

In this role you will:

• Build enhance and maintain Android application features that deliver reliable high-quality customer experiences across multiple Expedia Group brands and use cases.

• Design and implement clean testable Kotlin code including well-structured APIs and data models following Android and mobile engineering best practices.

• Contribute to system and low-level design for mobile components including screen flows interaction patterns and integration with backend services and data sources.

• Diagnose debug and resolve issues in Android applications improving performance stability and usability through data-driven analysis and experimentation.

• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to deliver features end-to-end ensuring high code quality with unit tests integration tests and continuous integration practices.

• Safely integrate and operate AI/ML‑enabled solutions that improve outcomes including familiarity with AI-driven systems tools or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real world products.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience.

• 2+ years of relevant professional experience.

• Professional experience developing Android applications using Kotlin including shipping and supporting features in production.

• Experience owning well-defined components or services within a mobile application including API consumption data modeling and integration with backend systems.

• Solid understanding of Android fundamentals (lifecycle layouts networking threading) and core software engineering practices such as code reviews testing and version control including familiarity with AI-driven systems tools or workflows and the ability to safely integrate AI/ML‑enabled solutions into mobile features under guidance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proficient in Kotlin for modern Android application development.

• Experienced with Jetpack Compose for building scalable declarative Android UIs.

• Knowledge of mobile design patterns and Android architectures (such as MVVM or similar) including clear module boundaries API design and scalable data models.

• Track record of improving performance reliability and observability of Android features at scale using metrics logging and experimentation to guide decisions.

• Experience contributing to or influencing mobile application technical design including system design for feature areas API contracts with services and low-level UI interaction design.

• Demonstrated practice of operational excellence for mobile apps including monitoring alerting on-call participation and iterative improvements based on incident learnings.

• Safely integrates and operates AI/ML‑enabled solutions that improve outcomes with hands-on experience leveraging AI-driven tools in development workflows or mobile product features appropriate to this level and familiarity with applying AI/ML concepts to enhance mobile user experiences.

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.

Expedia Group is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to support employees and their families including medical/dental/vision paid time off and an Employee Assistance Program. To fuel each employee’s passion for travel we offer a wellness & travel reimbursement travel discounts and an International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership. View our full list of benefits.

Accommodation requests

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.

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What We Do

Expedia Group powers travel for everyone everywhere through our global platform. Driven by the core belief that travel is a force for good we help people experience the world in new ways and build lasting connections. We provide industry-leading technology solutions to fuel partner growth and success while facilitating memorable experiences for travelers. Expedia Group's family of brands includes: Brand Expedia® Hotels.com® Expedia® Partner Solutions Vrbo® trivago® Orbitz® Travelocity® Hotwire® Wotif® ebookers® CheapTickets® Expedia Group™ Media Solutions Expedia Local Expert® CarRentals.com™ and Expedia Cruises™.

Why Work With Us

As travelers and technologists we are passionate about making travel more seamless accessible and memorable. We embrace different perspectives celebrate new ideas and empower every Expedian to drive meaningful change. The experiences we create bridge divides and broaden horizons – helping create unforgettable memories through travel.

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