Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering

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 global hybrid work setup (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.

Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering

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.

Are you a passionate, and inventive Engineering Manager to provide technical expertise and to manage a team while working with partner teams to develop platform solutions? If so, we are hiring a Sr. Manager, Engineering for the Intelligent Services team, you'll be working in highly collaborative, fast-paced, high energy environment. Our team has built Expedia’s conversation platform shared across multiple partners, your mission will be to build the product to support conversations on Voice channel, that’s available in the Open World platform for external partners to adopt this platform.

As a Sr. Manager, Engineering your responsibilities will span all aspects of software development and QA in order to build and test the next-generation partner facing Virtual agent. Work with us to seek this challenge, solving problems at scale and contributing to mission-critical software with a direct impact on the bottom line. Additionally, you will own the overall product quality of your teams assigned projects, as well as your own project work. You will also be representing both your engineering team and its projects in front of business leaders and executives.

In this role, you will:

• Be a great engineering leader for the team and broader organization. You will be working with a very technical diverse team of developers and expected to provide technical direction

• Manage a team of 8 -10 engineers to plan, track and deliver quality features in fast-paced agile environment

• Collaborate with other disciplines like PM and UX, partner with other teams to manage dependency and effectively manage the project to deliver on time

• Capable of designing and providing technical guidance to large feature area and ability to understand the technical details of a complex area

• Rigorous quality engineering practices across all phases of product development and deployment

• Mentor employees in the development of team and individual goals, provide regular and specific feedback, and assess individual and team performance

Experience and Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's in Engineering or related field; or equivalent related professional experience

• 10+ years of professional industry experience working on large projects including 2+ years of people management experience in product development environment

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Effective collaboration skills driving changes at scale

• Experience in working with Senior leadership across multiple product and engineering areas

• Deep understanding of JVM-based technologies preferred (Kotlin or Java) and cloud platform service, e.g, AWS.

The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $173,000.00 to $242,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $277,000.00, 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.

Accommodation requests

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