Senior Engineering Manager — Travel Platform (Hands-On)

Traveltechessentialist

Greater London

On-site

GBP 120,000 - 160,000

Full time

14 days+
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Job summary

Expedia Group in London seeks a Senior Engineering Manager for Hotels.com Technology to lead a high‑performing team building scalable, traveler‑facing services and core platform capabilities. You will stay hands‑on, review designs, mentor engineers, and push for safe AI/ML adoption while aligning with product and business goals to deliver measurable customer value.

This role emphasizes technical excellence, rapid delivery, and cross‑functional collaboration across product, design, data, and

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Level; Technical Degree Preferred.
  • 8+ years of relevant professional experience and 3+ years of people management experience.
  • Currently hands-on and willing to remain so; can review designs and production incidents.
  • Strong proficiency in core software engineering practices including OOP/FP, system design, API design, data modeling, testing strategies, and modern CI/CD pipelines.
  • Demonstrated track record of growing engineers' technical skills across domains, stacks, or disciplines.
  • Familiarity with AI-driven systems and applying AI/ML concepts to real-world products.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a software engineering team in designing, building, and operating highly available, performant, and secure services.
  • Stay hands-on: participate in design reviews, code reviews, prototypes, and production debugging.
  • Shape technical strategy and long-term architecture for owned areas to align with brand and business objectives.
  • Grow engineers' skills across domains, stacks, and disciplines to enable rapid adoption of new problem spaces.
  • Maintain high quality and operational excellence with CI/CD, monitoring, and incident response.

Skills

Leadership
Hands-on coding
System design
CI/CD
AI/ML familiarity

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Expedia Group in London seeks a Senior Engineering Manager for Hotels.com Technology to lead a high‑performing team building scalable, traveler‑facing services and core platform capabilities. You will stay hands‑on, review designs, mentor engineers, and push for safe AI/ML adoption while aligning with product and business goals to deliver measurable customer value.

This role emphasizes technical excellence, rapid delivery, and cross‑functional collaboration across product, design, data, and

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