Expedia Group Activities team is building great experiences for users to plan, shop and book activities for their trip.
We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager who will drive the innovation and scale of Activities business. Your role is to deliver a premier suite of products & services that will delight our customers and suppliers, while crafting a working environment where top technical talent will thrive.
Team members in Activities are fully accountable for themselves, their teams, and project delivery in a fast-paced and high-reaching environment. We understand and embody the ‘One Team’ philosophy and always strive to model the Expedia Group principles. We find creative ways to implement learning from ideas like Agile, Lean, Continuous Delivery and the Scientific Method in many aspects of leadership, management, delivery and operations.
As a Sr. Manager, Engineering your responsibilities will span all aspects of software development in order to build a robust Platform. Work with us to seek this challenge and help us build a market leading customer facing web application, solving problems at scale and contributing to mission-critical software with a direct impact on the bottom line. Additionally, you will own the overall product quality of your teams assigned projects, as well as your own project work. You will also be representing both your engineering team and its projects in front of business leaders and executives.
What you’ll do: Collaborate with product managers, architects, and program partners to build and deploy world-class software
Work in tandem with architects and other software developers to design robust solutions
Develop highly-scalable and robust products based on Java foundations and CSS/JavaScript front ends.
Have a strong eye for the operational aspects such as performance tuning, monitoring, fault-tolerance
Prototype creative solutions quickly, and take a project from prototype to production quality
Demonstrate leadership in mentoring , establishing standards in documentation and clean code, and setting a professional example to the team.
Lead and guide engineers and junior manager.
Who you are: 10 years software/web development experience required
Proven record of delivering and supporting production quality code in a professional Senior Software engineering, Dev manager or Tech lead role
Strong object-oriented programming and design skills in any language.
Technical skills: Object Oriented Design, Server Side Technologies, Micro-services architecture and front end (UI) technologies.
Love building high-quality software quickly through iterative development
Ability to work in a dynamic, collaborative and fast-paced environment
Strong interpersonal skills, as well as strong problem-solving and analytical skills
Self-starter that enjoys and takes pride in the development work of their team
Excellent verbal and written communication skills with ability to work well with in and across the teams.
Excellent skills at encouraging working relationships and driving team-work.
Solid attention to detail, problem solving and analytical skills.
Experienced with capturing business requirements, removing ambiguity and working with the team to build clear plans.
Experience in working with Senior leadership across multiple product and engineering areas.
Experience on developing high availability and reliable products with alert and monitoring systems.
Exposure to delivering products using cloud infrastructure.
Strong bias-to-action, problem solving & organizational skills
B-Tech/BE degree in Computer Science or related technical subject area is preferred
About Company
Expedia Group Engineering company
Expedia Group, Inc. is an American online travel shopping company for consumer and small business travel. Its websites, which are primarily travel fare aggregators and travel metasearch engines, include Expedia.com, Vrbo, Hotels.com, Hotwire.com, Orbitz, Travelocity, trivago and CarRentals.com.