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.

Role Summary

A people leader who provides immediate direction to a small team of junior engineers. Delivers work for several well-defined projects at once with clear oversight from more senior management and product representatives.

Experience

• 5+ years for Bachelor's
• 3+ years for Master's
• People Management: 0-3 years

• Leads (formally) at 3 multi-quarter projects (someone seen as technical lead + Individual Contributor).
• Participates in peer’s performance reviews by providing technical assessment and feedback.

Functional/ Technical Skills

• Has strong skill sets with cloud technology implementations preferably AWS
• Has experience managing teams that builds data APIs and pipelines for large scale data processing and distribution
• Experience with JVM stack i.e Java, Scala, Kotlin
• Identifies strengths and weaknesses among languages for particular use cases.
• Responsible for a technical domain.
• Demonstrates the ability to select among technology available to implement and solve for need.
• Works with a single team.
• Rewards and recognizes team members.
• Mentors individual contributors on team
• Defines team goals and how they fit a business need.
• Delivers solutions to business problems at the project level.
• Delivers a product roadmap, working in collaboration with product team.

Role Expectations

• Identifies areas where efficiency and process improvement are needed within own work area.
• Applies new ideas or approaches to own work to enhance outputs.
• Uses established tools and techniques to track progress related to implementing process improvements.
• Demonstrates knowledge of the product development lifecycle from idea generation to bringing a product to market by supporting the different phases and improving product performance.
• Engages with peers across the organization to build an understanding of cross dependencies, priorities, and opportunities to simplify.
• Participates in a community of practice and/or product reviews to share and gain knowledge.

• Engages in hands-on work as an IC to guide the team in delivering on their goals.
• Tests and maintains software applications and related programs and procedures by using a variety of software development tools following design requirements of customer.
• Acts as a spokesperson for software design best practices.
• Researches and recommends frameworks and architectural/code design patterns.
• Identifies areas of improvements within the code and suggests solutions.
• Advocates for operational excellence (such as unit testing, establishing SLAs, programming for resiliency and scalability).
• Communicates effectively with customers; listens to customers’ concerns and issues regarding technology; determines customers’ needs and expectations and responds accordingly.
• Ensures that operational teams and subcontractors have a clear understanding of customer requirements; identifies technical issues and provides data to support solutions.
• Considers new ways of using technology to meet or enhance customers’ needs.
• Remains informed on industry trends. Examines inefficiencies in the existing stack operation and encourages engineers to improve them.
• Bridges the gap in discussions between technology and non-technology personnel. Reports on team status faithfully and listens for suggestions to improve lagging project work.
• Evaluates current team projects or goals and identifies the relevant skills and expertise needed to accomplish them.
• Plans for and distributes necessary resources to ensure accomplishment of team goals.
• Tracks resource use to ensure minimal waste and reduce duplication of efforts.
• Guides Individual Contributors in the development of individual goals, provides regular and specific feedback, and assesses performance.
• Encourages and supports education and professional development of Individual Contributors.
• Mentors Individual Contributors by providing advice and recommendations based on experience and own learnings.
• Evaluates how individuals work together as a team to achieve goals. Provides a culture that supports team in the achievement of goals

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 Group's family of brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Vrbo®, trivago®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Hotwire®, Wotif®, ebookers®, CheapTickets