Director, Software Development Engineering - Air Shopping Platform

Expedia Group • Seattle, WA

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About The Position

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 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. Director, Software Development Engineering – Air Shopping Platform Introduction to the team: 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. The Air Shopping Platform organization owns the end‑to‑end platform that powers Flight Search, Pricing, and Shopping across all Expedia Group points of sale, partnering closely with product, analytics, and connectivity teams. We are responsible for building a reliable, highly performant, scalable, and cost‑effective platform that delivers fast and relevant flight offers to the shopping experiences via Flight Search, Flight Details, and additional supporting APIs. The team is primarily accountable for driving flight transaction growth at Expedia Group across many, concurrent workstreams. In this role, you will:

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience.
• 12+ years of relevant professional experience; with 5+ years managing teams.
• Extensive engineering leadership experience managing multi-service or multi-domain teams delivering complex software solutions.
• Demonstrated expertise in large-scale system design, architecture, and technical decision making.
• Proven track record of integrating AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real world products.
• Expert in classic and modern technical approaches to Information Retrieval in ecommerce Search and Recommendation platforms, including systems like Elasticsearch/Lucene and ML embeddings-based vector searches for semantic, free text search and recommendations systems.

Nice To Haves

• Experience driving architectural transformation and modernization initiatives for large, distributed systems.
• Demonstrated success in leading engineering organizations through periods of high growth, change, or complexity.
• Expertise in full stack engineering, with a proven ability to operate across multiple technical domains and platforms.
• Track record of championing data-driven decision making and operational excellence for mission-critical systems.
• Deep understanding of safely scaling AI/ML-enabled solutions, including risk mitigation and ethical considerations.

Responsibilities

• Lead and inspire engineering teams to deliver scalable, resilient, and high-quality software solutions across multiple domains.
• Define and drive the technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for large-scale services and platforms, ensuring alignment with business goals.
• Provide strategic oversight on system design, API development, and data modeling to enable secure, maintainable, and performant systems.
• Foster a culture of operational excellence, continuous improvement, and collaboration across engineering, product, and cross-functional teams.
• Safely integrate and operate AI/ML-enabled solutions that improve outcomes, championing best practices in responsible AI deployment.
• Cultivate engineering talent, mentoring senior technical leaders and developing high-performing teams adaptable to evolving business needs.

Benefits

• 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
• medical/dental/vision
• paid time off
• Employee Assistance Program
• wellness & travel reimbursement
• travel discounts
• International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director