Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering
Expedia Group · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Software Development · 10,001+ employees
About the role
Lead multiple software engineering teams to design, build, and operate scalable, secure services while driving technical direction and engineering standards. Partner with cross-functional leaders to prioritize roadmaps and foster a high-performance culture through coaching and inclusive management.
What they look for
Requirements
Requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent and over 8 years of professional experience, including at least 3 years in people management. Candidates must demonstrate strong proficiency in software engineering fundamentals, distributed systems, and end-to-end ownership of complex technical initiatives.
Full description
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 stakeholders to deliver high-quality software at scale
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience leading multiple engineering teams or a group/area within a large-scale, distributed technology environment, with accountability for domain-level architecture and technical strategy
- Track record of designing and evolving large, distributed, high-throughput systems, including service decomposition, data modeling at scale, and well-versioned, backward-compatible APIs
- Deep experience with production operations at scale, including SRE practices, capacity planning, performance optimization, and building systems for high availability and resilience
- Demonstrated ability to drive architectural modernization (for example, re-platforming, migration to cloud-native services, or refactoring monoliths into services) while maintaining strong delivery outcomes
Accommodation requests
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About Expedia Group
Expedia Group includes three flagship consumer brands - Expedia, Hotels.com, and Vrbo - along with a leading B2B travel business and travel advertising offerings. Across our brands and business, we help travelers explore the world with confidence and ease.
Important notice
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Equal Opportunity
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.