Software Engineering Manager - AI-Driven Modernization Lead

World Travel Holdings; United States; Remote; USD 175,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision

Life and disability insurance

401(k) with discretionary match

PTO & holidays

Travel discounts

EAP

Professional development

Job summary

World Travel Holdings seeks an experienced Software Engineering Manager to build high-performing teams, shape engineering practices, and lead modernization of customer-facing applications critical to our business.

You will partner with Product Management, Architecture, Quality Engineering, DevOps, Delivery, and business leaders to connect engineering investments to measurable outcomes, driving AI-enabled software development and trusted customer experiences.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including substantial experience leading engineering teams, developing technical and people leaders, and driving organizational or platform transformation.
• Demonstrated success coaching engineers, developing talent, and building high-performing teams.
• Proven ability to strengthen ownership, accountability, collaboration, learning, and delivery effectiveness.
• Experience leading teams responsible for customer-facing web applications and supporting platforms through technical, organizational, or cultural change.
• Experience modernizing legacy applications and adopting modern architecture and engineering practices.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, APIs and integrations, CI/CD, DevOps, application operations, and Agile delivery.
• Experience with AI-assisted software development tools or AI-enabled engineering workflows and an ability to guide responsible adoption.
• Strong communication, coaching, stakeholder management, and change-leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop software engineers and emerging technical and people leaders through meaningful feedback, career planning, performance management, expanded ownership, and growth opportunities.
• Build a culture of ownership, accountability, collaboration, curiosity, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure teams take end-to-end responsibility for the health, reliability, security, maintainability, and customer experience of the applications they support.
• Encourage cross-training, knowledge sharing, experimentation, and skill development beyond a single application or technology.
• Partner with Product Management, Architecture, Quality Engineering, DevOps, Delivery, Operations, and business stakeholders to solve customer and business problems across organizational boundaries.
• Lead strategic legacy application modernization while balancing business delivery, operational needs, and long-term technical health.
• Advance modern engineering practices, including CI/CD, automation, observability, resilience, secure development, and cloud-native compatible architecture.
• Champion the company’s AI-SDLC investments and drive measurable adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices.
• Manage priorities, risks, dependencies, capacity, and commitments with transparency and consistent follow-through.
• Use delivery, operational, quality, and people-development insights to guide decisions and continuous improvement.

Skills

Leadership

Coaching engineers

CI/CD

Observability

AI-assisted engineering

Cloud-native architecture

Communication

Stakeholder management

Change leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Tools

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Job description

World Travel Holdings seeks an experienced Software Engineering Manager to build high-performing teams, shape engineering practices, and lead modernization of customer-facing applications critical to our business.

You will partner with Product Management, Architecture, Quality Engineering, DevOps, Delivery, and business leaders to connect engineering investments to measurable outcomes, driving AI-enabled software development and trusted customer experiences.