Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering

Expedia•San Jose, WA

22h•Hybrid

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. Expedia Group’s Identity organization builds the authentication, authorization, and account experiences that power secure access across our brands (Expedia, Hotels.com, Vrbo, and more). We own the core platforms and user interfaces that let travelers sign up, sign in, manage their account, and safely navigate a multi-brand ecosystem on web and mobile. We partner closely with security, platform, and product teams to provide friction-right experiences: strong security protections and regulatory compliance, paired with fast, intuitive flows that keep travelers moving. We’re looking for a Senior Engineering Manager (front-end) to lead a team focused on the Identity web and mobile app experience - the UI surfaces and front-end systems behind login, sign-up, account management, and cross-brand navigation. You’ll lead a team of talented frontend and full-stack engineers, set a high bar for UX, performance, accessibility, and reliability, and work closely with product, design, and backend/platform partners. You will combine technical leadership (architecture, engineering quality, system design) with people leadership (hiring, coaching, performance, and growth), and connect the team’s work to business and traveler outcomes in line with EG’s values.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
10+ years of professional software development experience, including significant time building and shipping modern web applications at scale.
5+ years of people-management experience leading software engineers (app, frontend, full stack) on product teams.
Strong hands-on experience with modern frontend technologies (for example, React or similar frameworks, TypeScript/JavaScript, build and bundling tooling, and testing frameworks).
Demonstrated experience owning complex product surfaces end-to-end: collaborating with Product and Design, shaping APIs with backend partners, and running safe experiments and launches.
Proven track record of hiring, developing, and retaining engineers, including setting goals, giving actionable feedback, and guiding career growth.
Solid understanding of web performance, accessibility, and reliability best practices, and how to measure and improve them (for example, Core Web Vitals, error rates, latency, availability).
Experience working in cross-functional, agile product teams and communicating clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

Experience leading teams in domains such as identity, authentication, security, privacy, or payments, where trust and safety are critical.
Deep knowledge of frontend architecture at scale: shared component libraries/design systems, server-side or hybrid rendering, routing, state management, and API design for web clients.
Hands-on experience with observability and quality in the frontend stack (for example, real-user monitoring, logging, dashboards, alerting, A/B testing, error tracking, feature flags).
Familiarity with mobile and cross-platform identity experiences (web plus native apps) and patterns like deep linking, cross-device login, SSO, and account linking.
Experience integrating and operating AI- or ML-enabled solutions in the product or development lifecycle (for example, AI-assisted testing, content, or personalization) with appropriate safeguards.
Demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity, make pragmatic trade-offs, and help teams navigate conflicting priorities while maintaining a high quality bar.

Responsibilities

Lead and grow a frontend engineering team delivering high-quality identity experiences across EG brands, including sign-in, registration, account settings, and cross-brand flows.
Own the frontend architecture for Identity web and app surfaces: drive decisions on frameworks, shared components, design systems, performance patterns, observability, and experimentation.
Raise the bar on UX and performance by partnering with product and design to build fast, accessible, and secure flows that reduce friction, improve conversion, and protect traveler accounts.
Own problems end-to-end from user experience through client-side architecture, APIs, and integration with backend identity and security services—balancing short-term delivery with long-term platform health.
Champion engineering excellence: code quality, testing strategy, error budgets/SLOs, observability, incident readiness, and continuous improvement across the team’s UIs and services.
Develop, coach, and support engineers through clear expectations, regular feedback, and growth opportunities aligned to Expedia Group’s values.
Collaborate across disciplines and orgs (Security, Identity platform, Mobile, Product, Design, Data, Legal/Compliance) to align roadmaps, unblock dependencies, and deliver coherent end-to-end identity experiences.
Influence product strategy by bringing a technical and traveler-centric perspective to prioritization, trade-offs, and investment in shared capabilities (e.g., multi-factor auth UX, account recovery, trust signals).
Drive responsible use of AI and automation in the frontend domain (e.g., developer productivity, testing, accessibility checks, experimentation analysis), in line with EG’s AI and data governance practices.