Senior Manager, Software Engineering - Commerce Data

Expedia Group • Chicago, IL

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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 the team Commerce Data Engineering provides the source of truth for Expedia Group’s booking transactions. Our team delivers accurate, comprehensive data that powers insights and decision making across the company. We capture the full booking lifecycle from the moment a traveler clicks “book,” enabling visibility into booking value, profitability, and other essential commercial metrics. As we grow, we are expanding our platform with richer contextual signals that strengthen insight quality and open new possibilities for personalization and automation. By advancing the depth and intelligence of commerce data, we help enable the next generation of agentic experiences at Expedia Group. These capabilities allow systems and teams to reason, act, and deliver more proactive and effective outcomes for travelers and partners. In this role, you will: Lead one or more software engineering teams to design, build, and operate scalable, reliable services and applications that support Expedia Group’s traveler and partner experiences across multiple domains Own end-to-end technical delivery for your area, including system design (low-level design), API design, and data modeling, ensuring high-quality, secure, and maintainable solutions Define and drive the technical roadmap for your domain, making data-informed decisions on architecture, build-versus-buy, and modernization to improve performance, availability, and developer productivity Establish and enforce engineering excellence practices, including code quality, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, incident response, and operational readiness for services owned by your teams Build, grow, and mentor a diverse team of software engineers, creating a strong culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning, while enabling engineers to be effective across multiple technical domains 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

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent Level; Technical Degree Preferred
• 8+ years of relevant professional experience and 3+ years of people management experience
• Experience in professional software development and people management leading software engineering teams, with accountability for services or products in production environments
• Proven ownership of one or more services or systems, including responsibility for design, implementation, deployment, and ongoing operations within a defined product or domain
• Strong technical expertise in designing and building distributed systems, including system design (LLD), API design, data modeling, and working with modern programming languages, frameworks, and cloud-native technologies
• Demonstrated ability to set technical direction, break down complex problems, and drive execution through cross-functional collaboration with product, program, and operational partners

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent industry experience leading complex software systems at scale
• Experience designing and evolving large-scale, distributed, high-availability systems and platforms, including architectural decision-making, trade-off analysis, and long-term technical roadmap leadership for a product or domain
• Track record of building high-performing engineering teams, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and fostering a culture of operational excellence, data-driven decision making, and continuous improvement
• Deep experience with observability, reliability, and operational practices (such as SLOs, incident management, root cause analysis, and capacity planning) for always-on services
• Familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real world products, including safely integrating and operating AI/ML enabled solutions that improve customer or business outcomes within your domain, and leading teams to explore new applications of AI/ML to enhance developer experience and platform efficiency

Responsibilities

• Lead one or more software engineering teams to design, build, and operate scalable, reliable services and applications that support Expedia Group’s traveler and partner experiences across multiple domains
• Own end-to-end technical delivery for your area, including system design (low-level design), API design, and data modeling, ensuring high-quality, secure, and maintainable solutions
• Define and drive the technical roadmap for your domain, making data-informed decisions on architecture, build-versus-buy, and modernization to improve performance, availability, and developer productivity
• Establish and enforce engineering excellence practices, including code quality, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, incident response, and operational readiness for services owned by your teams
• Build, grow, and mentor a diverse team of software engineers, creating a strong culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning, while enabling engineers to be effective across multiple technical domains
• 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