Senior Tech Lead — AI-Driven Marketing Tech

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Paid time off

Employee Assistance Program

Wellness and travel reimbursement

Travel discounts

IATAN membership

Job summary

Expedia Group, a global travel company, seeks a senior technical leader in Austin to scale software, data, and AI capabilities powering Digital Operations. You will supervise architecture, discovery, and production delivery while mentoring engineers and aligning multiple teams toward reusable APIs, data products, and scalable platforms.

This hands-on role emphasizes security, governance, reliability, and operational readiness, ensuring partner experience and responsible AI deployment across

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building and delivering production software, data, ML, or AI-enabled systems.
• Senior technical individual contributor, technical lead, staff-level engineer, principal consultant, or equivalent.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, Kotlin, TypeScript, or Go.
• Experience designing APIs, distributed systems, cloud services, data pipelines, and event-driven architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery, architecture, prototyping, and delivery for software, data, ML, and AI solutions.
• Build production-quality services, APIs, data pipelines, workflow automation, and AI-enabled applications.
• Design and implement LLM-enabled capabilities and intelligent assistants.
• Connect marketing technologies and data platforms into end-to-end solutions.
• Mentor engineers through reviews, design sessions, and documentation.
• Evolve prototypes into production-ready solutions with governance and reliability.

Skills

Senior technical leader

Programming languages

API design

Distributed systems

Data pipelines

AI/ML experience

Mentoring engineers

Security & governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Data Science

Tools

Spark

Snowflake

Databricks

Kafka

Airflow

dbt

Job description

Expedia Group, a global travel company, seeks a senior technical leader in Austin to scale software, data, and AI capabilities powering Digital Operations. You will supervise architecture, discovery, and production delivery while mentoring engineers and aligning multiple teams toward reusable APIs, data products, and scalable platforms.

This hands-on role emphasizes security, governance, reliability, and operational readiness, ensuring partner experience and responsible AI deployment across