Senior Android Engineer, Design System

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:

Expedia Technology teams partner with our Product teams 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.

Within this organization, the Expedia Group Design System (EGDS) team is responsible for maintaining and evolving our design system. We work closely with designers and engineering teams across the company to help deliver high-quality, accessible, and consistent UI patterns for our travelers and partners.

As a Senior Android Engineer on this team, you will be a key contributor to the foundation of Expedia Group's mobile applications. We are looking for a high-performing individual who wants to make a real impact while also upskilling those around them.

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.
• Leverage and advocate for the use of AI tools as a copilot to accelerate development and encourage adoption across the team.
• 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:

• Advanced proficiency with Jetpack components/Jetpack Compose, Android UI/UX best practices, and performance optimization.
• Direct experience contributing to or using a design system.
• Experience implementing sophisticated UI interactions, animations, and transitions on Android.
• Experience using AI productivity tools like Claude or Copilot for development, code quality, or efficiency
• Experience building accessible (a11y) and inclusive user interfaces.
• 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.
• Deep understanding of Android app architecture patterns (e.g., MVVM, MVI, MVP).
• Proven track record driving architectural improvements in Android apps (such as modularization, design patterns, or platform standardization) and mentoring other engineers on best practices.

The total cash range for this position in Austin is $184,500.00 to $258,000.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $295,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.

The total cash range for this position in Chicago is $171,500.00 to $240,000.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $274,500.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.

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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