Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering

At Expedia Group, we help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time. As a global travel company powered by passionate people, trusted partnerships, and leading technology, we connect travelers, partners, and advertisers through our consumer brands, B2B network, and travel advertising business. Here, you'll do meaningful work that helps millions of people discover, book, and experience travel with more ease, confidence, and joy. Our five Behaviors-Traveler First, Think Big, Operate with Excellence, Ownership Mindset, and Succeed Together-help foster a supportive environment where people can grow their careers and have the flexibility, benefits, and support to do their best work. Join us and build for travelers everywhere. Introduction to team: Price is a key factor influencing traveller’s path to driving a choice of property and brand leading to a purchase. In a world of infinite paths to purchase, travellers make multiple searches and to find the ‘best trip’ and ‘best deal’. The Expedia Group Offers pillar is tasked with giving the customer a simple, clear, accurate, transparent pricing experience throughout their shopping and booking journeys. We do this by putting the customer first, creating capabilities and experiences that can be shared and presented to the customer that meet the travellers’ expectations in locally relevant ways and adhere to regulatory norms. We focus on building scalable, high-performance, high-throughput systems as part of a collection of Tier 1 services we call the Offers Domain. Typical technologies include Java/Kotlin, Spring, REST/gRPC, AWS, Datadog and Splunk. We encourage experimentation with new technologies while balancing short- and long-term goals, and we prioritize product quality and delightful customer experiences. In this role, you will: Lead multiple software engineering teams to design, build, and operate robust, scalable, and secure services, including system design (LLD), API design, and data modelling for high-impact business capabilities 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 Define technical direction and engineering standards for your area, driving adoption of best practices in coding, testing, architecture, observability, and operational excellence across teams Partner closely with product, architecture, and other technology leaders to prioritize roadmaps, translate business requirements into technical execution plans, and deliver measurable outcomes at domain or multi-service level Hire, grow, and coach engineering managers and senior engineers, building an inclusive, high-performance culture that emphasizes technical excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement Ensure reliable, resilient operation of production systems, including on-call strategies, incident management, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement of SLIs/SLOs Safely integrate and operate AI/ML-enabled solutions that improve outcomes, including familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real world products across multiple domains Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent Level; Technical Degree Preferred 8+ years of relevant professional experience and 3+ years of people management experience Proven track record of end-to-end ownership for complex systems, including system design (LLD), API design, data modelling, implementation, and ongoing operations within a defined product or domain scope Strong proficiency in core software engineering fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, testing, and CI/CD practices) and in building secure, reliable, and observable services Demonstrated ability to set technical direction, make data-driven trade-offs, and align cross-functional