Challenges you can work on

• Scale our services to more than 60k requests per second
  
• Develop fast, scalable, highly available, and reliable payment engines that will process billions of dollars per year
  
• Use real-time data to understand customers needs before they do
  
• Dockerize our apps and services for cloud deployment
  
• Develop features that will drive our business through real-time feedback loops
  
• Develop a smart service layer that will allow for in-session personalization based off user behavior and data
  
• Scale our public API to allow other partners to leverage HomeAway services & experiences on third party sites
  
• Simplify core booking and listing workflow to enhance our travelers & suppliers experience
  

Technologies we use

• AWS, Docker, Mesos Dropwizard, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, Kafka, Hadoop, Samza, NoSQL, Java8
  

Requirements

• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
  
• 8+ years of professional software development experience
  
• Technical leadership experience
  
• Excellent communication skills with ability to work well cross-functionally across multiple departments
  
• An analytical problem solver that is passionate about delivering a high quality user experience
  

Responsibilities

• Commit to ruthlessly rewriting, refactoring, and perfecting code
  
• Dedicated to delivering tested and optimized high performance code for a distributed SOA environment (our stack satisfies 10s of thousands of requests per second!)
  
• Develop quality scalable, tested and reliable applications using industry best practices
  
• Work with QA, product management and operations in an agile environment
  
• Create and maintain quality software using best-in-class tools Git, Splunk, New Relic, Sonar and Team City
  
• Participate in resolution of production issues and lead efforts toward solutions
  
• Opportunities to showcase your work on our tech blog and internal & external conferences
  

Benefits

• Competitive health and insurance benefits
  
• Competitive salary
  
• Annual target bonus or commission
  
• Paid vacation and sick time
  
• Vacation rental on a yearly basis (taxable benefit)
  

Job Functions

• Engineering Information Technology