Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering

Expedia; Lazio; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Paid time off

Employee Assistance Program

Wellness and travel reimbursement

IATAN membership

Job summary

Expedia Group seeks a Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering to lead loyalty-focused engineering across Expedia Group brands. You will shape strategy, mentor engineers, and drive cross-brand loyalty initiatives that enhance traveler engagement.

You will partner with Product and Technology to prioritize work, influence architecture, and deliver valuable experiences to travelers. This high-impact role blends technical leadership with people growth to scale platform services and APIs.

Qualifications

• Senior leadership experience in software engineering.
• Experience scaling loyalty/platform services.
• Proficient in back-end, web, or mobile tech.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop software engineers while fostering 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.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Kotlin

Java

React

Mentoring

Tools

APIs

Job description

Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering leads loyalty-focused engineering across Expedia Group brands. You shape strategy, mentor engineers, and drive cross-brand loyalty initiatives. You partner with Product and Technology to prioritize work, influence architecture, and deliver valuable experiences to travelers. This is a high-impact role that blends technical leadership with people growth to scale platform services and APIs. You will work across teams to create a cohesive, scalable loyalty platform that enhances traveler engagement.

• medical, dental, and vision coverage
• paid time off
• Employee Assistance Program
• wellness and travel reimbursement
• IATAN membership
• 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.
• 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.
• leadership
• communication
• Kotlin
• Java
• React