Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering – Search Marketing (Bidding)

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. Introduction to team We create and deliver an aligned, dedicated marketing strategy to fuel each Expedia Group brand's success. Since our travelers interact with us through our brands, we have a brand focus in our marketing, while leveraging the scale and efficiency we’ve built in functional expertise. Our Bidding team within our Search Marketing function is looking for an established people leader who will lead a team of engineers. This Senior manager is business-and-product minded, able to contribute to strategy or dig into the details, and most importantly; someone who empowers their people and teams to succeed while building a unified Bidding Platform to help streamline Campaign Management, machine learning science and operations work to enable enhanced bidding capabilities. In this role, you will: Build a Unified Bidding Platform to streamline our SEM campaign management and onboard existing and new use cases across the different marketing channels Lead and collaborate across Marketing MLS teams, Campaign Manager and MLE, understanding goals, constraints and perspectives, making resource, delivery, and architectural trade-offs to maximize strategic value Lead and actively contribute to all phases of the software development lifecycle, including the design, analysis, development, and deployment efforts for multiple enterprise applications projects to tackle sophisticated business problems Be hands-on while also guiding junior developers in building data pipelines and orchestrating bidding strategy and delivery Use the following technologies: Kotlin, Python, Go, Spring, Node.js, React, GraphQL, Docker, Hadoop, Hive, Spark, DataDog, Splunk, Kubernetes, Argo Workflows, AWS cloud

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional, post-college software development in object-oriented language
• 3+ years people management experience with passion for growing individual careers and enabling high-performing teams
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent related professional experience
• Hands-on technologist and leader well versed at running sophisticated, multi-quarter initiatives and a broad portfolio of applications and services
• Strong technical acumen and commitment to quality of engineering work and continuous improvement
• Excellent at switching contexts from strategic to detailed, technical to business, inter-team to cross-organization and everything in between
• Strong communication skills and highly effective collaborator, providing details and supporting your ideas with data where applicable

Responsibilities

• Build a Unified Bidding Platform to streamline our SEM campaign management and onboard existing and new use cases across the different marketing channels
• Lead and collaborate across Marketing MLS teams, Campaign Manager and MLE, understanding goals, constraints and perspectives, making resource, delivery, and architectural trade-offs to maximize strategic value
• Lead and actively contribute to all phases of the software development lifecycle, including the design, analysis, development, and deployment efforts for multiple enterprise applications projects to tackle sophisticated business problems
• Be hands-on while also guiding junior developers in building data pipelines and orchestrating bidding strategy and delivery

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: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees