Director, Software Development Engineer

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 global hybrid work setup (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.

Director, Software Development Engineer

Introduction to team

The Air Connectivity Organization at Expedia Group is seeking an established technology leader with a passion for building robust, scalable, and high-performance applications that help millions of people plan their travels and create lifelong memories. Join us as we revolutionize the travel industry! 

The Air Connectivity Organization at Expedia Group is at the forefront of innovation in the travel industry. We leverage our cutting-edge, in-house platform to seamlessly integrate with airlines worldwide, delivering exceptional travel experiences to millions of users annually. Through APIs that adhere to NDC standards, we enable travelers to access top-tier content, enjoy an immersive ticket shopping experience, and add convenient ancillaries to their journeys with ease. 

We are part of the partner connectivity platform that serves as the backbone of Expedia’s business, powering an efficient two-way marketplace that bridges supply and demand. Leveraging diverse integration methods—ranging from direct connections to NDC and GDS sourcing—our platform processes over 50 Tier-1 services and generates more than 8TB of data each month. Built with modern technologies like Java, Kotlin, Spring, MSSQL, DynamoDB, and Redis, our ecosystem supports millions of travelers in finding the best travel products tailored to their needs. 

What Sets Us Apart 

• Global Scale: We operate a platform that impacts millions of users worldwide, making air travel more accessible, seamless, and personalized

• Innovation-Driven: We thrive on solving complex challenges, continuously improving our technology stack, and staying ahead in the fast-paced travel industry

• Collaborative Culture: Our geographically distributed team is empowered to drive high-priority initiatives independently while fostering a culture of collaboration, inclusivity, and shared success

If you’re passionate about creating transformative solutions, tackling large-scale engineering challenges, and shaping the future of air travel, then we’d love to have you on our team. Join us, and let’s redefine the way the world travels together! 

 In this role, you will:

• Identify the interrelatedness of work activities across teams and recommend improvements to processes to increase effectiveness

• Remove team barriers to implementing new ideas or approaches by securing the necessary resources or support from senior management

• Ensure process improvement initiatives focus on measurable results, and help teams establish measures of success

• Manage and lead the product development lifecycle to reduce time to market, improve product quality and ensure product success 

• Partner with leaders across all EG to collaboratively solve problems

• Support and inform EG leaders via a community of practice and product reviews

• Build relationships with leaders across the organization to understand business problems and apply a technology lens to solve them