Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering - Marketplace

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.

Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering

Introduction to team  :

Our team is looking for an excellent engineer and dynamic leader who is exceptional in many ways : technically excellent, business-and-product minded, able to contribute to strategy or dig into the details, and most importantly : someone who empowers their people and teams to succeed, building end-to-end solutions that enable the most trusted travel marketplace in the world.

Marketplace Technology is a critical area of our business focused on making the experience for our customers and partners simple and easy to navigate while also driving the right marketplace behaviors and addressing experiences that are counter to building trust.

We are a data-driven organization with an appetite to resolve the most difficult problems. If you are interested in being near the heart of the company - where the needs of travelers, partners, and the business intersect - than this position is for you! We utilize every data signal in the marketplace to build scalable and extensible systems to maximize positive outcomes across the platform.

As a global leader in travel, Expedia Group helps millions of people every day go places and build lifelong memories.

In this role, you will :

Be responsible to build, grow, and shape adaptive, hardworking, motivated teams and individuals around their goals, ownership and career

Lead, coordinate, and collaborate on multiple concurrent and complex cross-organizational initiatives, understanding goals, constraints and perspectives, making resource, delivery, and architectural trade-offs to maximize strategic value

Lead and actively contribute to all phases of the software development lifecycle, including the design, analysis, development, and deployment efforts for multiple enterprise applications projects to tackle sophisticated business problems

Collaborate with EG leaders with vision to architect and build robust applications and thoughtfully choose relevant technologies to evolve EG travel platform

Support technical leads and individual contributors, including coaching, ongoing training and development, performance evaluations, goal setting, disciplinary actions, recruiting, and hiring

Create a positive work environment based on accountability and inclusiveness, in partnership with peers on the leadership team

Lead by example, mentor the team, and establish credibility through quality technical execution

Technologies we use : Kotlin, Java, Scala, Dropwizard, Spring, Node.js, React, GraphQL, Docker, Kafka, Cassandra, MongoDB, Hadoop, Spark, DataDog, Splunk, AWS cloud

Experience and qualifications :

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent related professional experience

8+ years of professional, post-college software development in object-oriented language

3+ years people management experience with passion for growing individual careers and enabling high-performing teams

Hands-on technologist and leader well versed at running sophisticated, multi-quarter initiatives and a broad portfolio of applications and services. Strong technical acumen and commitment to quality of engineering work and continuous improvement

Excellent at switching contexts from strategic to detailed, technical to business, inter-team to cross-organization and everything in between

Strong communication skills and highly effective collaborator. You articulate your ideas to teammates, peers, and leaders, providing details and supporting your ideas with data where applicable

You incorporate others' input and feedback and strive to find common ground

You enjoy and take pride in the work of your people, focusing on their success and willing to go above and beyond to help them win

Embrace change, comfortable with ambiguity, and energized by adapting and improving, providing clarity then moving yourself and your teams towards what's next

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We are proud to be named as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2024 and be recognized for award-winning culture by organizations like Forbes, TIME, Disability : IN, and others.

Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.