Manager, Software Development Engineering

$137,500 - $220,000/Yr

Expedia Group - Seattle, WA

Full-time - Manager

Seattle, WA

5,001-10,000 employees

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

The Manager, Software Development Engineering role at Expedia Group is focused on leading a team that develops and optimizes search functionalities for the company's websites and mobile applications. This position emphasizes innovation, collaboration, and the implementation of cutting-edge technologies such as machine learning and AI to enhance user experiences for millions of travelers. The role involves coaching a team of engineers, advocating for best practices, and ensuring high-quality software development processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coach a team of 5-10 high-performing software engineers.
• Advocate for performance, quality, and reliability, installing best practices in the development lifecycle.
• Foster a culture of continuous learning, collaboration, and innovation.
• Provide ongoing, real-time feedback to engineers to promote their growth.
• Communicate clearly with product managers, partners, and engineers to remove ambiguity from larger projects.
• Provide high-level engineering estimates for projects.
• Find creative and simple solutions to challenging problems, focusing on a test & learn culture.
• Collaborate across organizational boundaries to solve complex, integrated problems.
• Examine inefficiencies in the existing stack operation and prioritize improvements.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a related technical field or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years of software development experience in enterprise software and/or native mobile applications.
• Hands-on coding experience required.
• Proven experience in leadership and team building.
• Self-starter with a focus on innovation and enhancing customer experience.
• Strong technical proficiency with problem-solving and critical thinking skills.
• Understanding of software design principles, algorithms, and data structures.
• Ability to lead multiple tasks and projects simultaneously and prioritize effectively.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills, able to translate between technical and business groups.
• Ability to lead teams of different experience levels and mentor accordingly.
• Knowledge of backend services and front-end applications (web and/or native apps).
• Deep understanding of JVM-based technologies preferred (Kotlin or Java).
• Solid experience in cloud platform services and architecture (e.g., AWS).
• Experience with iOS/Android development toolkits is a plus (SwiftUI, Jetpack Compose).
• Experience with agile development methodologies.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with machine learning and natural language processing technologies.
• Familiarity with performance optimization techniques for web and mobile applications.

Benefits

• Exciting travel perks
• Generous time-off
• Parental leave
• Global hybrid work setup
• Career development resources