Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering

Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering 
We are currently looking for an experienced, highly motivated, and focused Senior Software Engineering Manager to join the Lodging Reservation Technology team, a part of our Partner Technology Division. 

At Expedia Group, we are revolutionising travel through technology. Every second of every day, we send travellers on a trip. We sell enough tickets to fill nearly six hundred 737 airplanes every day, and our mobile apps have been downloaded more than 10 million times across 180 countries. We work in a fast-paced environment to keep up with the travel evolution landscape. The opportunities to inspire travel for the global customer are endless. 

The Lodging Reservations team is responsible for the underlying services that power Hotel and Vacation Rental reservations originating from all points of sales in Expedia Group. The platform is developed on microservices architecture and runs on the cloud leveraging Amazon Web services. This role will be contributing to our key initiative to make the booking platform easily extensible for other Lines of business. A highly scalable, and resilient system that is front and center to all of Expedia Group’s Lodging Business Profit and Loss (PnL). The Lodging Business makes over 60% of Expedia’s revenue, and being part of the lodging reservations team means you make a direct contribution to the bottom line. Every booking across all Expedia points of sales and subsidiaries is orchestrated by our systems and we cater to supplier needs for fulfilment of these bookings. 

What you will do: 

• You will evaluate the platform architecture and work with the team to understand current engineering gaps and opportunities to evolve our technology stack 

• You will adopt cloud and serverless technologies and good design practices while finding opportunities to simplify and scale 

• You will continuously improve productivity and sustainability with great coding, QA, and release processes, coaching less experienced team members 

• You will partner with the product engineering teams to evaluate and design resilient, scalable, and highly available solutions 

• You will develop cloud-native solutions to continuously harden our platform and cloud infrastructures at scale 

• You will solve complex business problems by utilising disciplined development methodology, producing scalable, flexible, efficient, and supportable solutions using appropriate technologies 

• You will be a part of our development team and actively participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle, including requirements gathering, functional and technical design, development, testing and roll-out, and support. 

Who you are: 

• BS degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or other tech programs and/or related experience 

• 8+ years of backend software engineering experience 

• Proven track record in architecting and developing distributed systems design 

• Hands-on technical experience leading project teams and setting technical direction 

• An equally strong ability to learn new technologies and share it with others 

• Skilled coder (familiarity with Java stack a plus) to deliver highly resilient and scalable solutions with a drive towards quality 

• Experience with development in AWS or similar cloud platforms. Preferred: AWS Lambda, ECS, EC2, S3, EMR, DynamoDB, Aurora, Redshift, or similar 

• Experience with software delivery platforms and application monitoring tools (Kubernetes, Spinnaker, Datadog, AppDynamics, or similar) 

• Familiarity with volume transactional systems, microservices design, and data processing pipelines (Docker, Kafka, Kinesis, Spark, or similar) 

• Experience with continuous delivery, automated deployments, and related engineering practices 

• Agile practitioner, able to deliver products iteratively 

• Embrace change, always be open to replacing what you built yesterday with something better today