Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering - Shopping

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.

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.

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.

This Senior Engineering Manager role is part of the Packages Shopping team within our Technology division. This team is responsible for empowering travelers to discover relevant options at every step of their travel journey and become our travelers’ must-have partner. We are building intelligent and improved shopping experiences across web, iOS, and Android to enable millions of our travelers to build and experience the trips they will remember forever.

• Lead and develop high-performing engineering teams to deliver complex, scalable technical solutions across multiple domains.
• Drive architecture, system design (including low-level design), API design, and data modeling efforts to support product and platform evolution.
• Foster a culture of operational excellence, ensuring reliable and secure delivery and maintenance of services and applications.
• Champion the integration and safe operation of AI/ML-enabled solutions that improve business and customer outcomes.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, UX, and other engineering teams to align technical delivery with organizational goals.
• Mentor engineers, promote technical growth, and establish best practices to enable team success and technical innovation.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• 3+ years of people management experience.
• Demonstrated experience owning and delivering technical solutions at the service, multi-service, or domain level.
• Proven technical aptitude in system and API design, with experience leading engineering teams.
• Familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real world products.

• Experience designing and operating systems at scale with a focus on reliability, performance, and security.
• Strong track record driving architectural decisions and technical strategies across multiple teams or domains.
• Demonstrated ability to foster a culture of data-driven decision making and continuous improvement.
• Experience integrating and operating AI/ML-enabled solutions that drive measurable impact.
• Strong hands-on software development experience in a modern technology stack (e.g., Java, Kotlin, Swift, Type Script, or similar)
• Experience leading engineering teams delivering customer-facing products in either full-stack web or native mobile environments; experience spanning both is a plus

The total cash range for this position in Chicago is $ to $. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $, 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.

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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, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.