Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering: Lodging Booking Platform

Expedia Group • Austin, TX

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About The Position

The Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering will lead the Lodging Booking Platform team in Austin, driving the architecture and delivery of scalable, cloud-native reservation systems that are critical to Expedia Group’s business revenue. This role partners closely with product and engineering stakeholders to evolve microservices, improve engineering practices, and deliver resilient, extensible solutions. You will provide hands-on technical leadership, coach and develop team members, and contribute across the full software development lifecycle. Success in this role requires deep experience in distributed systems, AWS-based platforms, and high-volume transactional environments.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Extensive professional software development experience, including significant time leading engineers or teams delivering complex, distributed backend systems or platforms in a production environment.
• Proven track record owning end-to-end delivery and operations of critical services or multi-service platforms, including system design (LLD), API design, data modeling, and operational excellence (monitoring, alerting, incident response).
• Strong technical leadership skills with hands-on depth in one or more modern programming languages, service-oriented or microservices architectures, and cloud-native technologies and tooling.
• Demonstrated ability to align engineering execution with product and business priorities, managing trade-offs to deliver high-quality outcomes at scale.

Nice To Haves

• Experience leading multiple software engineering teams or an organization responsible for large-scale, high-throughput transactional systems such as booking, payments, or similar mission-critical platforms.
• Demonstrated success defining and evolving technical architecture for a complex platform, including cross-service contracts, domain modeling, and data strategies that enable resilience, scalability, and reuse.
• Strong background driving operational excellence at scale, including reliability engineering, capacity planning, cost optimization, and data-driven decision making using metrics and experimentation.
• Experience safely integrating AI/ML‑enabled capabilities into production services (for example, personalization, ranking, anomaly detection, or intelligent automation), and guiding teams on responsible, effective use of AI-driven tools in the software development lifecycle.
• Familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real world products, with the ability to identify pragmatic use cases within lodging booking and adjacent domains.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple software engineering teams building and evolving services and platforms that power the Lodging Booking Platform, ensuring reliability, scalability, and high performance across global traffic patterns.
• Define, communicate, and drive a clear technical vision and roadmap for lodging booking services, including system design, API design, and data modeling aligned with product and architecture strategies.
• Establish and enforce engineering best practices for design, coding, testing, observability, security, and operational readiness, while continuously improving build, deployment, and release processes.
• Partner closely with product, architecture, and other platform and feature teams to deliver cross-domain initiatives, enabling reuse and fungibility of services and capabilities across multiple lines of business.
• Build, mentor, and grow a diverse, high-performing engineering organization through coaching, performance management, and effective hiring, while fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and psychological safety.
• 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.

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