Job Description

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 flexible work model (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. Senior Manager, Software Development Engineer Introduction to team At Expedia Group, our purpose is to bring the world within reach for every traveler . If you seek a collaborative, rewarding, and exciting environment and are passionate about our customers experience, you will love the InsurTech team! We offer innovative, personalized, and intelligent insurance and assurance products and experiences! This helps us provide confidence to book, peace of mind, and protection when the unexpected happens for our travelers globally. Were looking for an Engineering Manager who enjoys leading and forming a team, loves to challenge the status quo, does not hesitate from taking initiatives, and loves to own the team through new challenges and technologies. With your experience, technical skillset, and passion for mentoring and inspiring others, you and your team will create the components and experiences that enable the Insurance platform. In this role, you will: Lead a team of 8-10 engineers to design and implement features and use cases for new functionality and improvements to existing products and ensure the execution of new insights or approaches. Guide and mentor employees in the development of the team and individual goals, providing regular and specific feedback, and assessing individual and team performance. Review the skill and expertise requirements to accomplish team goals and identify staffing and talent resources to fill project roles. Ensure efficient Full-Time Employee to contingent worker ratio is maintained on the team. Bridge the gap in discussions between technology and non-technology personnel. Report on team status and listen for suggestions to improve lagging project work. Remain informed on technology trends. Examine inefficiencies in the existing stack operation and encourage engineers to improve them. Convey the right information to the accurate parties to ensure that proposals for improvements are given accurate consideration and technical issues are resolved in a timely manner. Contribute to advancing the teams design methodology and quality programming practices and mentor junior team members. Advocate for operational excellence (such as unit testing, establishing SLAs, programming for resiliency, and scalability). Determine different phase landmarks and priorities with product and program management peers. Anticipate and recognize bottlenecks in work processes between teams and makes suggestions for ongoing improvement. Experience and qualifications: Bachelors degree or Masters in Engineering or related field; or equivalent related professional experience 8+ years of professional, post-college software development in an object-oriented language 3+ years of people management experience with a passion for growing individual careers and enabling high-performing teams You are a leader and work phenomenal within a team and have a true team first attitude. You have delivered solutions to business problems spanning teams. Ability to work in a diverse organization with global decentralized teams, working across multiple locations. You have strong technical acuity which allows you to be responsible for multiple technical domains; justifying technology choices to technical and non-technical observers. Strong problem solving and analytical skills in redefining product requirements into user stories for engineers to work on. You have acted as a mentor for individual contributors and managers on a team Recruited 5+ engineers into their own team. Accommodation requests If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, or other physical or mental health conditions, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the Accommodation Request . We are proud to be named as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2024 and be recognized for award-winning culture by organizations like Forbes, TIME, Disability:IN, and others. Expedia Groups family of brands includes: Brand Expedia , Hotels.com , Expedia Partner Solutions, Vrbo , trivago , Orbitz , Travelocity , Hotwire , Wotif , ebookers , CheapTickets , Expedia Group Media Solutions, Expedia Local Expert , CarRentals.com , and Expedia Cruises . 2024 Expedia, Inc. All rights reserved. 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