Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering

11105 Expedia, Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 258,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Paid time off

Employee Assistance Program

Wellness & travel reimbursement

Travel discounts

IATAN membership

Job summary

Expedia Group is seeking a Senior Software Development Manager to lead the Distribution and Supply team within Technology. You will guide design and operation of scalable services, set technical direction, and mentor engineers across multiple domains to deliver reliable, high-impact solutions for travelers and partners.

The role emphasizes AI-enabled features, data-driven decisions, and strong collaboration with product, design, and engineering teams to translate business needs into robust

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent; Technical Degree Preferred.
• 8+ years of relevant professional experience and 3+ years of people management experience.
• Strong proficiency in data structures, algorithms, system design, API design, and data modeling, with hands-on experience applying these fundamentals in real systems.
• Hands-on experience with modern web technologies, frameworks, service architectures, and AI-driven tools or workflows that enhance developer productivity or product capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and evolution of scalable, secure, and reliable software services, including system design, API design, and data modeling.
• Provide technical direction for high-quality, maintainable, testable, observable, and operationally sound solutions across multiple services and domains.
• Partner with product, design, and engineering teams to translate customer and business requirements into reusable technical solutions and effective service integrations.
• Guide the end-to-end lifecycle of services and features, including development, automated testing, deployment, monitoring, incident resolution, and continuous improvement.
• Use data, metrics, experimentation, and analytics to prioritize work, validate hypotheses, and improve system performance, reliability, and user experience.
• 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

System design

API design

Data modeling

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent

Technical Degree Preferred

Tools

AI/ML tools

Job description

At Expedia Group, we help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time. As a global travel company powered by passionate people, trusted partnerships, and leading technology, we connect travelers, partners, and advertisers through our consumer brands, B2B network, and travel advertising business. Here, you'll do meaningful work that helps millions of people discover, book, and experience travel with more ease, confidence, and joy. Our five Behaviors-Traveler First, Think Big, Operate with Excellence, Ownership Mindset, and Succeed Together-help foster a supportive environment where people can grow their careers and have the flexibility, benefits, and support to do their best work. Join us and build for travelers everywhere.

Introduction to Team Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.

This Senior Software Development Manager role is part of the Distribution and Supply team which sits within our Technology division. Distribution and Supply owns pricing, inventory, content, and marketplace trust, sourcing high-quality inventory and content, determining availability, pricing products, and helping travelers and partners enjoy a safe, profitable marketplace experience. In this role, you will lead teams that build and operate the marketplace infrastructure enabling travelers to discover, compare, and book travel while helping drive technical direction, develop talent, and deliver results across complex systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and evolution of scalable, secure, and reliable software services, including system design, API design, and data modeling.
• Provide technical direction for high-quality, maintainable, testable, observable, and operationally sound solutions across multiple services and domains.
• Partner with product, design, and engineering teams to translate customer and business requirements into reusable technical solutions and effective service integrations.
• Guide the end-to-end lifecycle of services and features, including development, automated testing, deployment, monitoring, incident resolution, and continuous improvement.
• Use data, metrics, experimentation, and analytics to prioritize work, validate hypotheses, and improve system performance, reliability, and user experience.
• 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.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent Level; Technical Degree Preferred.
• 8+ years of relevant professional experience and 3+ years of people management experience.
• Demonstrated ownership and technical leadership across services, multi-service architectures, or a product domain, including responsibility for design, implementation, quality, deployment, and operational health.
• Strong proficiency in data structures, algorithms, system design, API design, and data modeling, with hands‑on experience applying these fundamentals in real systems.
• Hands‑on experience with modern web technologies, frameworks, service architectures, and AI‑driven tools or workflows that enhance developer productivity or product capabilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading the design and evolution of multi-service or multi-component architectures, including well-structured APIs, data models, and integration patterns across systems.
• Demonstrated success driving technical improvements at scale, including performance tuning, resilience hardening, reliability engineering, or optimization of high-traffic services and user interfaces.
• Strong operational excellence practices, including instrumentation, observability, alerting, on-call participation, and incident response that improve long‑term service health.
• Proven ability to use experimentation, feature flags, A/B testing, analytics, and service metrics to guide technical and product decisions and measure delivered impact.
• Experience integrating or extending AI/ML-enabled capabilities across services or applications, including responsible adoption of AI-driven components and guiding teams in the effective, safe use of AI tooling for code quality, testing, and operations.

Salary and Location

The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $184,500.00 to $258,000.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $295,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role. Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.

Benefits and Perks

• medical
• dental
• vision coverage
• paid time off
• an Employee Assistance Program
• wellness and travel reimbursement
• travel discounts
• International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IATAN) membership

Accommodation Requests

Accommodation requests Expedia Group is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience. If you need an accommodation or adjustment due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please submit a request at https://expedia.service-now.com/askeg?id=job_accommodation.

About Expedia Group

Expedia Group includes three flagship consumer brands - Expedia, Hotels.com, and Vrbo - along with a leading B2B travel business and travel advertising offerings. Across our brands and business, we help travelers explore the world with confidence and ease. Guided by an experienced and passionate global team, Expedia Group helps millions of travelers in more than 70 countries explore the world with confidence and ease.

Equal Opportunity

Equal Opportunity Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.

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