Lucy Griffiths – Software Development Engineer II

Tell us about your current team

My team is responsible for the URL creation, and distribution, for different page types across various Expedia brands – from hotel property pages on Expedia to search landing pages on Vrbo. We’re part of a wider team called the Experience Management Platform that aims to build an EG-wide solution to enable different teams and brands to manage and customise different experiences as easily as possible.

Tell us about your current role

My role is focused on the backend of web-services, I mainly code in Kotlin with the Spring framework, with a focus on gRPC and using technologies such as Kafka and AWS regularly. However, I’ve also had the chance to work with technologies such as Spark for data manipulation.

Tell us about your career journey at Expedia Group so far

My current team is the result of merging two teams in order to unify the technology across the Expedia platform. Along the way, I participated in a number of projects to achieve this, so I have worked with people from a multitude of different offices. At the moment, I still work with a lot of the people I used to work with during my internship in 2018, but with this merge we now have team members in London, Madrid and Amman! I’ve also grown more involved in the design of our systems, something that I was very intimidated by at the start of my 2018 internship.

What advice would you share with an Apprentice, Intern, or Graduate starting at EG?

While at first it seems daunting to come into such a big company and that there’s so much to learn, in my experience people are always happy to teach and help. It takes time to fully understand new languages, new technologies, and new concepts, so be patient with yourself and ask for help when you need it! People want to see you thrive!

What do you enjoy the most about working at Expedia Group?

As cliché as it sounds, Expedia Group really promotes a healthy work life, and gives people the opportunities to improve their careers, whether it be through mentorship programs, global hackathons, or time simply to focus on innovation.

How have you learned to embrace challenges?

In the time I’ve worked at Expedia, I’ve made some mistakes and introduced some bugs into our codebase every now and then. A skill I’ve developed over the years at Expedia is the ability to look back on what went wrong and understand how I can use the knowledge I gained from that experience to improve going forward.