Senior Android Engineer - Air Shopping Experience

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 Senior Android Engineer is part of the Air Shopping Experience team which builds the end‑to‑end air shopping journey across native and web that powers flight search discovery and booking across Expedia Group brands. We focus on fast reliable and intuitive mobile experiences that help travelers find the right flights with confidence while enabling experimentation and innovation at scale across our apps. The Air Shopping Experience team sits within our Technology organization partnering closely with platform search recommendations checkout identity and experimentation teams to deliver connected high‑quality experiences across brands and platforms. This role will be based in Seattle collaborating with distributed teams across Expedia Group.
In this role you will:
 

• Design build and maintain advanced Android applications using Kotlin and modern Android frameworks ensuring reliability performance and scalability across a diverse device ecosystem.

• Lead end‑to‑end feature delivery including low‑level design API design and data modeling for mobile features and services that integrate with backend systems and shared platforms.

• Collaborate with product design and cross‑functional engineering teams to define technical approaches refine requirements and deliver high‑quality customer experiences in a fast‑paced environment.

• Drive code quality through rigorous code reviews automated testing strategies continuous integration and adherence to engineering best practices for Android development.

• 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.

• Enhance observability performance monitoring and incident resolution for Android applications contributing to operational excellence and reusable patterns across multiple product areas.

Minimum Qualifications:

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

• 8+ years of relevant professional experience.

• Professional experience developing and shipping Android applications using Kotlin in a production environment including ownership of features or services from design through deployment and support.

• Experience with Android application architecture API integration and data modeling including working with RESTful services and offline data handling.

• Demonstrated ability to design implement and maintain testable maintainable and performant Android codebases using modern frameworks tools and libraries.

• Familiarity with AI-driven systems tools or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real world products with a focus on safely integrating these capabilities into mobile features.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience as an Android Engineer and advanced proficiency in Kotlin.

• Advanced proficiency with Jetpack components/Jetpack Compose Android UI/UX best practices and performance optimization.

• Deep understanding of Android app architecture patterns (e.g. MVVM MVI MVP).

• Experience leading technical design for complex Android features including low‑level design API contracts and data models that integrate with multiple backend or shared services.

• Proven track record driving architectural improvements in Android apps (such as modularization design patterns or platform standardization) and mentoring other engineers on best practices.

• Experience safely integrating and operating AI/ML‑enabled or AI‑assisted features within mobile applications such as recommendation experiences intelligent automation or personalized flows.

• Demonstrated ability to apply AI/ML‑adjacent techniques (for example leveraging on‑device ML frameworks or AI‑powered developer tools) to improve development productivity quality or customer outcomes.

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.

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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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