Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering - Search & Recommendations Platform

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.

Why Join Us?

To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.

We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a flexible work model (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.

Introduction to Team

Expedia Technology teams partner with our Product teams to create innovative products, services, and tools to deliver high-quality experiences for travelers, partners, and our employees. A singular technology platform powered by data and machine learning provides secure, differentiated, and personalized experiences that drive loyalty and traveler satisfaction.

This Senior Engineering Manager role is a part of the Search & Recommendations Platform organization within our Product & Technology division. The Search & Recommendations Platform provides reusable, high-quality capabilities that power search and recommendations experiences across Expedia Group brands and surfaces. In this role, you will be a technical leader for the Austin-based accelerator team, accountable for adoption and end‑to‑end impact, including successfully integrating platform capabilities into experiences, running experiments, and landing outcomes with client/brand/product partners.

In this role, you will:

• Lead and develop high-performing engineering teams to deliver complex, scalable technical solutions across multiple domains.

• Drive architecture, system design (including low-level design), API design, and data modeling efforts to support product and platform evolution.

• Foster a culture of operational excellence, ensuring reliable and secure delivery and maintenance of services and applications.

• Champion the integration and safe operation of AI/ML-enabled solutions that improve business and customer outcomes.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, UX, and other engineering teams to align technical delivery with organizational goals.

• Mentor engineers, promote technical growth, and establish best practices to enable team success and technical innovation.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience.

• 8+ years of software engineering experience.

• 3+ years of people management experience.

• Demonstrated experience owning and delivering technical solutions at the service, multi-service, or domain level.

• Proven technical aptitude in system and API design, with experience leading engineering teams.

• Familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real world products.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience designing and operating systems at scale with a focus on reliability, performance, and security.

• Strong track record driving architectural decisions and technical strategies across multiple teams or domains.

• Demonstrated ability to foster a culture of data-driven decision making and continuous improvement.

• Experience integrating and operating AI/ML-enabled solutions that drive measurable impact.

• Advanced proficiency in Kotlin/Java programming.

• Prior experience in search & recommendations or similar domain.

The total cash range for this position in Austin 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.

Expedia Group is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to support employees and their families, including medical/dental/vision, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program. To fuel each employee’s passion for travel, we offer a wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and an International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership. View our full list of benefits .

Accommodation requests

If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, or other physical or mental health conditions, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the Accommodation Request .

We are proud to be named as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2024 and be recognized for award-winning culture by organizations like Forbes, TIME, Disability:IN, and others.

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