Manager, Software Development Engineering

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.

Team description:

The Expedia Group Experimentation Platform team is responsible for building the systems and tools leveraged across the company to implement the scientific method at an enterprise scale for A/B testing. Our customers include Product Managers, Engineers and Analysts who leverage our tools to design and validate experiments that affect the millions of travellers and partner organizations who use our brands and platforms.

Business Contribution/Impact:

Understanding and measuring the outcome of changes within our products is fundamental to the success of our business. The Experimentation Platform, in close collaboration with our analytics partners, ensures we follow good scientific practices to drive successful outcomes across our products and services.

As a leader, you will bring good software architecture and design principles to the group. In addition, you will mentor new developers to learn the software best practices. You will work with the Product Owner and the Project manager to deliver the milestones of the engineering team.

What you’ll do:

• Test and maintain software applications and related programs and procedures by using a variety of software development tools following the design requirements of customer
• You will identify areas where efficiency and process improvement are needed.
• You will apply new ideas or approaches to enhance team outputs.
• You will demonstrate knowledge of the product development lifecycle from idea generation to bringing a product to market by supporting the different phases and improving product performance.\
• You will engage with peers across the organization to build an understanding of cross dependencies, priorities, and opportunities to simplify.
• You will identify areas of improvement within the code and suggests solutions.
• You will advocate for operational excellence (such as unit testing, establishing SLAs, programming for resiliency and scalability).
• You will ensure that operational teams and subcontractors have a clear understanding of customer requirements; identify technical issues and provide data to support solutions.
• You will remain informed on industry trends. Examine inefficiencies in the existing stack operation and encourage engineers to improve them.
• You will bridge the gap in discussions between technology and non-technology personnel. Report on team status faithfully and listen for suggestions to improve lagging project work.

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Who you are:

• Strong in 2+ of Java (8+), Kotlin, Node.js, React, Scala.
• Bachelor's degree or Master in a related Technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience.
• Experience of leading/managing/mentoring a team of engineers
• Experienced with stream and batch processing having used at least one of these frameworks: Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Apache Spark)
• You have strong technical acumen which allows you to be responsible for the technical domain
• You have delivered solutions to business problems at the project level
• Collaborating closely with the product team you have delivered a product roadmap
• Ability to identify business problems at the project level and provide solutions
• Understanding how projects/teams interact with other teams.
• Ability to test and monitor code at the project level.
• Understanding of testing and monitoring tools.
• Ability to test, debug, fix issues within established SLAs.

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