Design System Engineering Manager - Lead Scalable UI

Expedia Group; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 185,000 - 258,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Paid time off and wellness benefits

Travel discounts and IATAN membership

Job summary

Expedia Group seeks a Senior Engineering Manager for its design system team to lead and scale a high-impact engineering organization. You will set technical direction, develop talent, and deliver outcomes aligned with business goals across web, iOS, and Android platforms.

You will lead multi-disciplinary collaboration with product, design, accessibility, and engineering partners to define priorities, improve accessibility, and boost developer productivity while maintaining security and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of relevant professional experience and 3+ years of people management experience.
• Experience owning technical direction and delivery across a multi-service platform, shared capability, or technical domain.
• Strong knowledge of software architecture, system design, low-level design, API design, data modeling, testing, observability, and production operations.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence, manage technical execution across teams, and translate business and customer needs into engineering outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop engineering teams responsible for Expedia Group’s design system, fostering technical excellence, accountability, and continuous growth.
• Define and execute the technical strategy for reusable design-system capabilities that improve consistency, accessibility, developer productivity, and customer experiences across products.
• Guide architecture and implementation decisions across system design, low-level design, API design, data modeling, and integration patterns for services and shared components.
• Partner with product, design, accessibility, and engineering stakeholders to establish priorities, align roadmaps, and deliver scalable solutions across multiple domains.
• Establish engineering practices that strengthen reliability, quality, security, observability, and operational excellence for design-system platforms and services.
• 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.

Skills

Technical leadership

People management

System design

API design

Architecture

Stakeholder alignment

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Job description

Expedia Group seeks a Senior Engineering Manager for its design system team to lead and scale a high-impact engineering organization. You will set technical direction, develop talent, and deliver outcomes aligned with business goals across web, iOS, and Android platforms.

You will lead multi-disciplinary collaboration with product, design, accessibility, and engineering partners to define priorities, improve accessibility, and boost developer productivity while maintaining security and