Senior Engineering Manager - Loyalty Platform & Apps

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Paid time off

Employee Assistance Program

Wellness & travel reimbursement

Travel discounts

Job summary

Expedia Group in Rome seeks a Senior Manager of Software Development Engineering to lead loyalty initiatives across customer experiences and platform services. You will shape execution, mentor engineers, and influence technical direction across Product and Technology to deliver tangible traveler value.

You will collaborate with Product and business stakeholders while guiding architecture decisions and scalable solutions across Kotlin, Java, React, Android, iOS, and cloud-native environments.

Qualifications

• Experience leading software engineering teams in a technology organization.
• Experience developing engineers and future leaders through coaching, feedback, and career support.
• Technical background in software engineering, with experience in backend, platform, web, or mobile technologies.
• Experience delivering complex, cross-functional initiatives from concept through execution.
• Understanding of software architecture, system design, scalability, reliability, and engineering best practices.
• Proficient communication skills, with the ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience creating an inclusive environment where people can contribute and do their best work.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop software engineers while fostering an inclusive culture of ownership, learning, and innovation.
• Deliver complex engineering initiatives supporting loyalty experiences and platform capabilities across Expedia Group brands.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and business stakeholders to define priorities, align roadmaps, and deliver customer value.
• Communicate progress, dependencies, risks, and mitigation plans to senior leaders and executives.
• Influence architectural decisions and guide scalable, reliable, and maintainable engineering solutions.
• Build partnerships across teams to deliver loyalty capabilities spanning the traveler journey.
• Help shape an integrated platform and experience organization that enables engineers to work across technologies and domains.
• Provide technical leadership across distributed systems, APIs, and services supporting rewards, benefits, and traveler engagement.
• Support engineering teams working with Kotlin, Java, React, Android, iOS, cloud-native technologies, and service-oriented architectures.

Skills

Lead software teams

Coaching & development

Software engineering background

Cross-functional delivery

Architecture & design

Communication skills

Inclusive leadership

Tools

Kotlin

Java

Cloud-native tech

Job description

Expedia Group in Rome seeks a Senior Manager of Software Development Engineering to lead loyalty initiatives across customer experiences and platform services. You will shape execution, mentor engineers, and influence technical direction across Product and Technology to deliver tangible traveler value.

You will collaborate with Product and business stakeholders while guiding architecture decisions and scalable solutions across Kotlin, Java, React, Android, iOS, and cloud-native environments.