Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering - Marketplace

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. Our team is looking for a strong engineer and dynamic leader who is exceptional in many ways: technically excellent, 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, building end‑to‑end solutions that enable the most trusted travel marketplace in the world. Marketplace Technology is a critical area of our business focused on making the experience for our customers and partners simple and easy to navigate while also driving the right marketplace behaviors and addressing experiences that are counter to building trust. We are a data‑driven organization with an appetite to resolve the most difficult problems. If you are interested in being near the heart of the company – where the needs of travelers, partners, and the business intersect – then this position is for you! We utilize every data signal in the marketplace to build scalable and extensible systems to maximize positive outcomes across the platform. As a global leader in travel, Expedia Group helps millions of people every day go places and build lifelong memories. In this role, you will: Lead multiple software engineering teams to design, build, and operate reliable, scalable, and secure services and applications, ensuring high availability and performance for customer‑facing and internal systems. Define and drive technical direction, including system design (low‑level design), API design, and data modeling standards, and ensure consistent adoption of these patterns across the teams and services you own. Establish and evolve engineering practices for high‑quality delivery, including code review standards, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and incident response to meet or exceed operational SLAs. Partner closely with Product, Architecture, and cross‑functional stakeholders to align engineering roadmaps with business outcomes, prioritize work across domains, and deliver measurable value through iterative releases. Recruit, develop, and mentor engineers and managers, creating an inclusive, high‑performance culture with clear expectations around technical excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement. 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, and ensure your teams can leverage these capabilities responsibly across multiple domains. Technologies we use: Kotlin, Java, Scala, Flink, Dropwizard, Spring, Node.js, React, GraphQL, Docker, Kafka, Cassandra, MongoDB, Hadoop, Spark, DataDog, Splunk, AWS cloud. Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent Level; Technical Degree Preferred. 8+ years of relevant professional experience and 3+ years of people management experience. Extensive professional experience in software development engineering, including prior experience leading engineers and/or engineering teams delivering production services or applications. Proven track record owning the end‑to‑end lifecycle of one or more services or systems, from design and implementation through deployment, operation, and iterative improvement. Strong technical proficiency in system design (LLD), API design, and data modeling, with hands‑on experience building distributed, service‑oriented, or cloud‑based systems. Preferred Qualifications: Experience leading multiple software engineering teams or a multi‑service portfolio, setting technical direction and architectural strategy for complex, distributed systems operating at significant scale. Demonstrated ability to define and evolve architecture for services and data models, including cross‑service API contracts, integration patterns, and resiliency, observability, and security standards. Strong track record of driving operational excellence, including incident management, root‑cause analysis, reliability improvements, and continuous optimization of performance, cost, and scalability. Safely integrates and operates AI/ML‑enabled solutions that improve outcomes, including guiding teams on responsible use of AI‑driven components, monitoring model impact, and ensuring alignment with product and customer needs. Role‑specific AI leadership experience such as directing teams that embed AI‑assisted development, testing, or personalization capabilities into software products or platforms, and using data‑driven experimentation to validate and scale these solutions. The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $184,500.00 to $258,000.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $295,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role. Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future. Expedia Group is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to support employees and their families, including medical/dental/vision, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program. To fuel each employee’s passion for travel, we offer a wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and an International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership. Accommodation requests If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, or other physical or mental health conditions, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the Accommodation Request. Expedia Group’s family of brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Vrbo®, trivago®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Hotwire®, Wotif®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Expedia Group™ Media Solutions, Expedia Local Expert®, CarRentals.com™, and Expedia Cruises™. We are proud to be a diverse employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. This employer participates in E‑Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee’s I‑9 to confirm work authorization. #J-18808-Ljbffr Traveltechessentialist