Software Engineering Manager

Are you an engineering manager who embraces servant leader principles? Are you passionate about technology and people in equal measures? Are you fascinated by data and building robust data pipelines that process massive amounts of data at scale and speed to provide crucial insights to the end customer?

This is exactly what we, the Supply and Partner Data Engineering organization, in Expedia, do! Our charter is to “Unify and democratize EG supply & partner data into a rich set of data and ML engineering products to improve partner performance & marketplace competitiveness and unlock data analytics & AI across EG for these domains”. We work on creating data products and generating ML predictions as part of the Expedia Group Data Platform to support a variety of users and applications including analysts, data scientists, internal engineering teams, product and business partners, senior executives, and external EG partners across all travel lines of business. Our work spans across a broad set of domains including supply across all travel products, search & sort, competitive intelligence, etc across a diverse technology stack ranging from Hadoop, Teradata to Spark, KStream, EMR, Qubole/Databricks, and AWS.

We are looking for a passionate, creative and innately curious engineering manager to join our Agent Data and Graphs team to build out a next-generation stream-first data platform to power the EG Agent Attribute Store for all external partner-facing agents.

What you'll do:

• Design and implement large scale real-time & batch data pipelines on the AWS platform; set platform, product, and technology strategies

• Resolve problems and roadblocks as they occur and unblock team members toward success. Follow through on details and drive issues to closure

• Build, coach, and mentor a team of robust software engineers utilizing your experience hiring and growing best-in-class development teams.

• Build and maintain a long-term product and technical vision and roadmap

• Manage a team of SDEs to deliver high-quality software using agile principles and methodologies, with a strong focus on performance, scalability, maintainability, and operational excellence

• Orchestrate operational support and act as a backup for your team during high impact live site issues

• Communicate and work effectively with geographically distributed multi-functional teams

Who you are:

• Experience in designing and implementing BigData applications (data ingestion, real-time data processing, and batch ETL) in Spark Streaming, Kafka, Hadoop

• Solid server-side programming skills (Scala, Nodejs, or Java), and hands-on experience in OOAD, microservice architecture, design patterns, and SQL

• Experience on Hadoop-ecosystem technologies in particular MapReduce, Spark, Hive, YARN. Experience working on distributed database systems like Hadoop (Hive/HDFS), Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Qubole/Amazon EMR, Teradata, Redshift

• Strong experience with cloud computing platforms (AWS, EMR, Kubernetes, Docker)

• Strong communication skills across, up, and down a global organization enabling you to translate collaborate effectively with peers of all levels and disciplines

• Experience leading and managing an agile engineering team while partnering with peers in a geographically diverse organization

• Ability to lead multiple simultaneous projects, prioritize effectively and thrive in a fast-paced environment

Why join us:   

Expedia Group recognizes our success is dependent on the success of our people.  We are a global travel platform, made up of the most knowledgeable, passionate, and creative people in our business.  Our brands recognize the power of travel to break down barriers and bring the world within reach – that responsibility inspires us to be the place where exceptional people want to do their best work, and to provide them the tools to do so.   

Whether you're applying to work in engineering or customer support, marketing or lodging supply, at Expedia Group we act as one team, working towards a common goal; to bring the world within reach.  We relentlessly strive for better, but not at the cost of the customer.  We act with humility and optimism, respecting ideas big and small.  We value diversity and voices of all volumes. We are a global organization but keep our feet on the ground so we can act fast and stay simple.  Our teams also have the chance to give back on a local level and make a difference through our corporate social responsibility program, Expedia Cares. 

If you have a hunger to make a difference with one of the most loved brands in the world and to work in the dynamic travel industry, this is the job for you. 

Our family of travel brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Egencia®, trivago®, Vrbo®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Wotif®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Hotwire®, Expedia® Media Solutions, CarRentals.com™, Expedia Local Expert®, Expedia Cruises™ and SilverRail Technologies, Inc. For more information, visit www.expediagroup.com. 

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, or veteran status. 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.