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 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.

This Senior Software Development Manager role is part of the Distribution and Supply team which sits within our Technology division. Distribution and Supply owns pricing, inventory, content, and marketplace trust, sourcing high-quality inventory and content, determining availability, pricing products, and helping travelers and partners enjoy a safe, profitable marketplace experience.

In this role, you will lead teams that build and operate the marketplace infrastructure enabling travelers to discover, compare, and book travel while helping drive technical direction, develop talent, and deliver results across complex systems.

• Lead the design, development, and evolution of scalable, secure, and reliable software services, including system design, API design, and data modeling.
• Provide technical direction for high-quality, maintainable, testable, observable, and operationally sound solutions across multiple services and domains.
• Partner with product, design, and engineering teams to translate customer and business requirements into reusable technical solutions and effective service integrations.
• Guide the end-to-end lifecycle of services and features, including development, automated testing, deployment, monitoring, incident resolution, and continuous improvement.
• Use data, metrics, experimentation, and analytics to prioritize work, validate hypotheses, and improve system performance, reliability, and user experience.
• 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.

• Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent Level;
  Technical Degree Preferred.
• 8+ years of relevant professional experience and 3+ years of people management experience.
• Demonstrated ownership and technical leadership across services, multi-service architectures, or a product domain, including responsibility for design, implementation, quality, deployment, and operational health.
• Strong proficiency in data structures, algorithms, system design, API design, and data modeling, with hands‑on experience applying these fundamentals in real systems.
• Hands‑on experience with modern web technologies, frameworks, service architectures, and AI-driven tools or workflows that enhance developer productivity or product capabilities.

• Experience leading the design and evolution of multi-service or multi-component architectures, including well-structured APIs, data models, and integration patterns across systems.
• Demonstrated success driving technical improvements at scale, including performance tuning, resilience hardening, reliability engineering, or…