PRINCIPAL MOBILE ENGINEER

Company: Expedia
Location: Chicago
Posted on: September 27, 2024

Job Description:

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Identity and Loyalty Experiences, focused on the sign in/up, profile experiences as well as all the loyalty related experiences across the traveller journey.This puts us at the heart of Expedia Groups strategy, driving growth through smart traffic acquisition, driving customers to sign in, increase loyalty program membership, while ensuring contextual, personalized and cohesive experience for all platforms, and brands.As a Principal Mobile Engineer within this organization, you will be pivotal to our ambition of having a best-in-class mobile app experience, crafting solutions and providing technical leadership to engineering teams across these areas while contributing to the more foundational elements of the Mobile platform.What you will do:Establish relationships with leaders across the organization to understand and address business problems through the lens of technologyAdvocate crafting stable, scalable, resilient, composable and extendable software solutionsGuide and mentor individuals when evaluating the impact of a solution to ensure linkages between structure, people, process and technologySupport EG technologists in communities of practice and provide stewardship to the teamsKeep up with industry practices and develop methods to implement them for our ecosystemGo beyond organization structures to deliver on technology and architectural initiatives that span the whole traveler and partner experienceWork directly with other architects to ensure delivery of a cohesive developer and customer experience across all platformsPossess a recognized ability to fill in for peer engineering director as the need arises in setting technical next steps in co-ordination with engineering managementDevelop north star vision for domains in which you are focused onWho you are:Bachelor's degree in a related technical field, or equivalent experienceHave a strong UX Software Engineering experienceExperienced in standard software engineering practices & methodologies enabling the full software development process, including establishing coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes and testingPossess a strong understanding of business need, help us translate vague business requirements to solutions, and lead their executionUnderstand systems being crafted across Expedia Group and how our business units can integrate with themStrong understanding of best practices around experimentation, analytics and observability so that large problems can be solved iteratively. Like us, you care deeply about customers, and are open to a continuous feedback loop: We ship. We learn. We improve. We change! - You also care about our developers and their experience working with the platform. Engage with them, gather feedback and work across organisational boundaries to drive change as needed to increase productivityProficient in interactions, transitions, animations, and motion behavioursProficient with layout and screen flow, and crafting apps for accessibilityHard-working and influential individual contributor, who sets an example, mentors colleagues, and is hands-on where neededCommunicates and collaborates with technical and non-technical leadership within EG, across many subject areasSkillsets:Experience with end-to-end developing and publishing multiple native apps, preferably across platformsWell versed in API technologies, understanding of Server Driven UI approaches, API-first design methodologies, including GraphQLStrong grasp of object-oriented concepts, client/server architecture, high-performant designConversant with Kotlin/Java and Swift/ObjC, Android Studio/Jetbrains IDE and XcodeAbility to evaluate trade-offs of memory, power, connectivity, performance, and other constraints in embedded systemsHands on experience building native UX with modern declarative systems: Jetpack Compose/Flow and SwiftUI/Combine, can have a preference to a platform but navigates bothPractices Test Driven Development, and has experience with testing frameworksFamiliarity with Continuous Development/Integration tools like Github Actions, SpinnakerDeep understanding of MVVM and other design patterns e.g., SOLID, and how to create testable and debuggable codeExperience working with multi-module projects, shared librariesPrevious experience building adaptable, ML powered experiences desirableAbout Expedia Group - Expedia Group (NASDAQ: EXPE) 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. - - 2021 Expedia, Inc. All rights reserved. Trademarks and logos are the property of their respective owners. CST: 2029030-50Employment opportunities and job offers at Expedia Group will always come from Expedia Group's Talent Acquisition and hiring teams. Never provide sensitive, personal information to someone unless you're confident who the recipient is. Expedia Group does not extend job offers via email or any other messaging tools to individuals to whom we have not made prior contact. Our email domain is @expediagroup.com. The official website to find and apply for job openings at Expedia Group is careers.expediagroup.com/jobs.Expedia is -committed -to creating an inclusive work -environment -with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.SummaryLocation: UK - London; India - Gurgaon; Canada - Quebec - Montreal; USA - Illinois - Chicago; Washington - Seattle Campus; Austin Domain 11 - HomeAwayType: Full time

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