Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering - Marketplace

At Expedia Group, we help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time. As a global travel company powered by passionate people, trusted partnerships, and leading technology, we connect travelers, partners, and advertisers through our consumer brands, B2B network, and travel advertising business.

Here, you'll do meaningful work that helps millions of people discover, book, and experience travel with more ease, confidence, and joy. Our five Behaviors-Traveler First, Think Big, Operate with Excellence, Ownership Mindset, and Succeed Together-help foster a supportive environment where people can grow their careers and have the flexibility, benefits, and support to do their best work. Join us and build for travelers everywhere.

Our team is looking for a strong engineer and dynamic leader who is exceptional in many ways: technically excellent, business-and-product minded, able to contribute to strategy or dig into the details, and most importantly: someone who empowers their people and teams to succeed, building end-to-end solutions that enable the most trusted travel marketplace in the world.

Marketplace Technology is a critical area of our business focused on making the experience for our customers and partners simple and easy to navigate while also driving the right marketplace behaviors and addressing experiences that are counter to building trust.

We are a data-driven organization with an appetite to resolve the most difficult problems. If you are interested in being near the heart of the company - where the needs of travelers, partners, and the business intersect - than this position is for you! We utilize every data signal in the marketplace to build scalable and extensible systems to maximize positive outcomes across the platform.

As a global leader in travel, Expedia Group helps millions of people every day go places and build lifelong memories.

In this role, you will:

• Lead multiple software engineering teams to design, build, and operate reliable, scalable, and secure services and applications, ensuring high availability and performance for customer-facing and internal systems.
• Define and drive technical direction, including system design (low-level design), API design, and data modeling standards, and ensure consistent adoption of these patterns across the teams and services you own.
• Establish and evolve engineering practices for high-quality delivery, including code review standards, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and incident response to meet or exceed operational SLAs.
• Partner closely with Product, Architecture, and cross-functional stakeholders to align engineering roadmaps with business outcomes, prioritize work across domains, and deliver measurable value through iterative releases.
• Recruit, develop, and mentor engineers and managers, creating an inclusive, high-performance culture with clear expectations around technical excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement.
• Safely integrate and operate AI/ML‑enabled solutions that improve outcomes, including familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real world products, and ensure your teams can leverage these capabilities responsibly across multiple domains.
• Technologies we use: Kotlin, Java, Scala, Flink, Dropwizard, Spring, Node.js, React, GraphQL, Docker, Kafka, Cassandra, MongoDB, Hadoop, Spark, DataDog, Splunk, AWS cloud

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent Level; Technical Degree Preferred.
• 8+ years of relevant professional experience and 3+ years of people management experience.
• Extensive professional experience in software development engineering, including prior experience leading engineers and/or engineering teams delivering production services or applications.
• Proven track record owning the end-to-end lifecycle of one or more services or systems, from design and implementation through deployment, operation, and iterative improvement.
• Strong technical proficiency in system design (LLD), API design, and data modeling, with hands-on experience building distributed, service-oriented, or cloud-based systems.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience leading multiple software engineering teams or a multi-service portfolio, setting technical direction and architectural strategy for complex, distributed systems operating at significant scale.
• Demonstrated ability to define and evolve architecture for services and data models, including cross-service API contracts, integration patterns, and resiliency, observability, and security standards.
• Strong track record of driving operational excellence, including incident management, root-cause analysis, reliability improvements, and continuous optimization of performance, cost, and scalability.
• Safely integrates and operates AI/ML‑enabled solutions that improve outcomes, including guiding teams on responsible use of AI-driven components, monitoring model impact, and ensuring alignment with product and customer needs.
• Role-specific AI leadership experience such as directing teams that embed AI-assisted development, testing, or personalization capabilities into software products or platforms, and using data-driven experimentation to validate and scale these solutions.

The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $184,500.00 to $258,000.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $295,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.


Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.

Benefits and perks

Expedia Group offers benefits and perks designed to support employees and their families, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, an Employee Assistance Program, wellness and travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IATAN) membership. Learn more about life at Expedia Group at https://careers.expediagroup.com/life.

Accommodation requests

Expedia Group is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience. If you need an accommodation or adjustment due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please submit a request at https://expedia.service-now.com/askeg?id=job_accommodation.

About Expedia Group

Expedia Group includes three flagship consumer brands - Expedia, Hotels.com, and Vrbo - along with a leading B2B travel business and travel advertising offerings. Across our brands and business, we help travelers explore the world with confidence and ease.

Important notice

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Equal Opportunity

Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.