Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering

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Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering

Do you want to guide development of important web applications using powerful technologies, while also simultaneously leading an entire backend business domain? If you like to challenge yourself and push to find novel ways of solving problems, then you are looking in the right place! You should consider joining us as an engineering manager of Expedia Group’s Property Status and Onboarding teams.

The Property Status team’s mission is to drive partner self-service goals by setting new properties live automatically, to control enabling and disabling of all properties, and to provide critical insight to users about failing requirements. The Onboarding team’s mission is to deliver exceptional user experiences to users who are creating new properties and to coach them to be successful in Expedia’s marketplace.

The software we are developing will enable scalability of our onboarding processes (both human and API-based) by automating the enforcement of key requirements. It will streamline users’ onboarding experiences by coaching them on what matters most for their success. Joining these teams will place you in a position to drive success and provide a unique opportunity for you to grow.

What you will do:

• Lead implementation teams and cultivate the execution of new insights or approaches.

• Anticipate and recognize bottlenecks in work processes between teams and makes suggestions for ongoing improvement.

• Create different project phases and resolve priorities, working closely with product management peers.

• Partner with the business to have a clear understanding of how the technology stack is tied to business outcomes and our bottom line.

• Act as a spokesperson for software design standard methodologies - researching and recommending frameworks and architectural/code design patterns.

• Advocate for operational excellence (such as unit testing, establishing SLAs, programming for resiliency and scalability).

• Have broad knowledge of the entire product and in EG's languages, frameworks, cloud services, toolkits, methodologies enabling you can help with any component, or type of issues.

• Convey the right information to the correct parties to ensure that proposals for improvements are given the proper consideration and technical issues are resolved in a timely manner.

• Remain informed on technology trends. Examine inefficiencies in the existing stack operation and encourage engineers to improve them.

• Bridge the gap in discussions between technology and non-technology personnel. Report on team status dedicatedly and listen for suggestions to improve lagging project work.

• Review the skill and expertise requirements to accomplish team goals and identify staffing and talent resources to fill project roles.

• Guide employees and managers in the development of team and individual goals, providing regular and specific feedback, and assessing individual and team performance.

• Evaluate the full complement of team talent, identify gaps, and implement action plans to fill gaps and drive achievement of goals.

Who you are: 

• Bachelor's degree or Masters in a related Technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience.

• An established People Leader who leads a team of Engineers.

• Equivalent experience includes: Recruited 5+ engineers into own team, performance managed at least 3 individual contributors, led individuals across different locations.

• Someone who motivates teams to get things done and knows how to cut through bureaucracy to get results.

• Strong technical skills which allows you to be responsible for multiple technical domains; explaining technology choices to technical and non-technical observers

• Acted as a mentor, both individual contributors and managers as well

• Defined team key results and how they fit a business need across multiple teams working together – working as an enabler fo