Hotwire

About Hotwire:

Launched in 2000, Hotwire is one of the earliest innovators in the online travel arena and part of the Expedia Group family of brands.

Our roots are in California, and we also have offices in Seattle along with an important and fast-growing product & technology presence in Gurgaon, India. Hotwire has the energy and pace of a startup, plus the stability and backing of the incredible Expedia family of companies. Hotwire’s culture centers around delivering value to customers and supply partners by being passionate about building great products with the newest technologies available. We pride ourselves on our organizational transparency, a bias for action and a customer-centric approach to everything we do.

Hotwire differentiates itself as a brand within the travel marketplace by offering a unique core value proposition for customers and suppliers with our opaque pricing model. This concept revolves around offering great bargains on hotel room nights without sharing the specific name or location of the hotel until the booking is complete. By giving this flexibility to our suppliers, we can offer great value to our customers. Hotwire also offers a full retail suite of other travel products that can fulfill virtually any customer travel need.

Why Hotwire you ask? In short: We are eager and energetic. We love the journey as much as the destination. We love being part of the Expedia brands but stay true to ourselves.

We offer:

• A compelling technology stack –Swift, Objective-C, RxSwift, robust continuous delivery pipelines using Chef/Jenkins among others
• Almost uninhibited access to customers – move from ideation to construction to production rapidly; gauge customer reaction and then adapt. Then do it again. Feed the feedback loop
• AUTONOMY – you’ll live and play in a tight-knit team environment where you’ll be measured by the enjoyment you bring to others – your co-workers and customers – and not by bug count or algorithmic purity. You’ll see a problem and will work unfettered to solve it. Here at Hotwire, you control your destiny.

Your primary responsibilities would be:

• Be a thought leader in mobile development and shape the future of our next mobile app development strategy.
• Lead the product feature to build resilient and secure applications with the right architecture/design and production level quality.
• Design and develop and Unit Test Mobile applications. 
• Collaborate with a team to define , design , deliver features.
• Partner with product and marketing functions to provide them with engineering guidance and also further their needs from the app.
• Being involved from product inception, proactively look for potential quality issues, contribute to Technical Reviews and Root Cause Analysis sessions.
• Actively participate in group technology reviews to critique work of self and others.
• Resolve problems and roadblocks as they occur with help from peers or managers. Follow through on details and drive issues to closure with help from peers or managers.

Required Skills & Experience:

• BS and/or MS in Computer Science or a related field
• 3-5+  years in delivering native applications for iOS with a strong understanding of a consumer app life-cycle with XCUITest,
• 2+ years of experience working with devops tools like Chef, Ansible, Jenkins and practices like continuous integration and delivery pipelines
• Solid experience working with React (bonus points for React migration experience)
• A genuine interest in shipping quality applications and belief in engineering excellence
• An agile mentality whether practiced (i.e., SCRUM, Kanban) or innate (i.e., you have no patience to sacrifice progress for red tape)
• Ability to make trade-off choices and work in close collaboration with developers to maintain an aggressive release cadence
• The ability to communicate effectively to executive audiences; effective communication can manifest as presentations, rapid prototypes or the plain ol’ written word
• The ability to reverse engineer existing systems and extend the capabilities of existing solutions
• Good knowledge on Open Source software

Why Join Us:

Expedia Group recognizes our success is dependent on the success of our people. We are the world's travel platform, made up of the most knowledgeable, passionate, and creative people in our business. Our brands recognize the power of travel to break down barriers and make people's lives better – that responsibility inspires us to be the place where exceptional people want to do their best work, and to provide them to tools to do so.

Whether you're applying to work in engineering or customer support, marketing or lodging supply, at Expedia Group we act as one team, working towards a common goal; to bring the world within reach. We relentlessly strive for better, but not at the cost of the customer. We act with humility and optimism, respecting ideas big and small. We value diversity and voices of all volumes. We are a global organization but keep our feet on the ground so we can act fast and stay simple. Our teams also have the chance to give back on a local level and make a difference through our corporate social responsibility program, Expedia Cares.

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