Solution Engineer

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.

Solution Engineer

Private Label Solutions is an entrepreneurial start-up inside the world's biggest travel company. We build technology that helps millions of travelers find the best hotel at the right time for their next unforgettable trip.

Expedia is looking for a solution architect with strong software development experience and a deep curiosity for AI - someone who thrives at the intersection of business and technology, and is excited to innovate and prototype what's next in travel.

What you'll do:

• Define software and solution packages that solve the evolving needs of our partners, including hands-on prototyping of AI-powered capabilities
• Be part of our amazing technology organization within Expedia Group where you will learn and grow as a key contributor to our engineering teams, playing a critical role in working closely with our teams as well as top travel industry client partners
• Explore the art of the possible by experimenting with emerging technologies, building functional prototypes, and validating new concepts with internal teams and partners
• You will work with partners, sales, and incubation teams to gain a clear understanding of the overall business goals and objectives of our partners, developing code and crafting LLM prompts that power intelligent, context-aware travel experiences
• You will understand any opportunities or gaps in the technology supporting their business and build solutions that address this by leveraging the technology and capabilities within Expedia's Travel Platform
• You will map out the necessary components to design an overall package of solutions
• In selecting the right technology to address partner needs, you will also incorporate several technology architectural and operational considerations in the overall design and approach for the solution, including consideration for security, resiliency, and integration standard methodologies while incorporating partner and internal system requirements
• Serve as the primary technical interface with the partner, helping bring ideas to life through a mix of storytelling, demos, and delivery
• Competitive salaries and many growth opportunities within the company
• A front-row seat to cutting-edge work in AI, travel tech, and platform innovation
• Option to attend conferences globally and enrich the technology skills you are passionate about

Who are you:

• A hands-on software developer with experience coding and deploying prototypes
• Comfortable working with large language models and modern AI toolchains - ideally including prompt design and evaluation
• Experienced in sophisticated technology problems and able to communicate them to non-technical people
• Worked interacting directly with clients and capable of mapping business problems with technology solutions
• Curious, collaborative, and driven to explore new technologies with a bias for experimentation
• Choose fearlessly - Build a clear vision of client needs, apply analytical and technical skills, and define the solution that best solves the opportunity
• Include consciously - Bringing in others and collaborating with teams across Expedia Group's travel platform will unlock the best possible solutions for our clients
• Bring the client perspective back into our travel ecosystem
• Trust each other - Building and maintaining trust with our clients and one another is essential, and is built by first trusting others and then being accountable and delivering on our commitments
• Force simplicity - Compose straightforward solutions that leverage platform adoption while applying simple designs that solve complex client needs
• Go get what's next - Define and solve for client needs of today while opening further possibilities for future growth and partnership

Accommodation requests

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