Senior Engineering Manager, Loyalty Platform

Expedia; Roma; On-site; EUR 73,000 - 103,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Paid time off

Employee Assistance Program

Welfare and travel reimbursement

Travel discounts

IATAN membership

Job summary

Expedia Group in Rome seeks a Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering to lead a team delivering loyalty initiatives across customer experiences and platform services. You will shape the technical direction, mentor engineers, and partner with Product and Technology to drive business impact.

In this role you will oversee distributed systems, APIs, and services powering rewards, benefits, and traveler engagement, while guiding architectural choices and maintaining scalable, reliable

Qualifications

• Experience leading software engineering teams.
• Experience coaching engineers and future leaders.
• Technical background in software engineering with backend, web, or mobile experience.
• Experience delivering complex, cross-functional initiatives.
• Understanding of architecture, system design, scalability, reliability, and best practices.
• Proficient communication with stakeholders, both technical and non-technical.
• Experience fostering an inclusive environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop software engineers while fostering an ownership-oriented culture.
• Deliver complex engineering initiatives across loyalty experiences and platform services.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and business stakeholders to set priorities and roadmaps.
• Communicate progress, dependencies, risks, and mitigation plans to senior leaders.
• Influence architectural decisions and guide scalable, reliable solutions.
• Build partnerships across teams to enable loyalty capabilities across the traveler journey.
• Help shape an integrated platform and experience organization for cross-domain work.
• Provide technical leadership across distributed systems, APIs, and services.

Skills

Leadership

Coaching

Technical vision

Kotlin

Java

Distributed systems

Stakeholder comms

Tools

Kotlin

Java

React

Android

iOS

Cloud-native

APIs

Job description

Expedia Group in Rome seeks a Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering to lead a team delivering loyalty initiatives across customer experiences and platform services. You will shape the technical direction, mentor engineers, and partner with Product and Technology to drive business impact.

In this role you will oversee distributed systems, APIs, and services powering rewards, benefits, and traveler engagement, while guiding architectural choices and maintaining scalable, reliable