Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering - Seattle, United States - Expedia , Inc.

Description

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Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering

We are currently looking for an experienced, highly motivated, and disciplined Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering to join the Cars Supply Connectivity technology team as part of Partech Organization.

In this role based in Seattle, you will lead a North America-based engineering team, providing technical leadership and people management for your team members with the aim of driving effective and efficient delivery of our road map. This also entails working with product partners to flesh out requirements, drive solution design, development and ultimate delivery. We are also constantly looking for ways to improve our software development methodologies and welcome fresh ideas and approaches.

What you'll do:

• You will lead a team of efficient developers and people leaders, in implementing high-quality applications to support the delivery and deployment of new business functionality
• Act as a spokesperson for software design standard methodologies - researching and recommending frameworks and architectural/code design patterns
• Mentor team members and advocate for quality coding and optimal processes
• Build broad knowledge of the entire product and in Expedia Group's languages, frameworks, cloud services, toolkits, methodologies enabling you to help with any component or similar type of issue
• Participate in technical design discussions and be able to provide suggestions and mitigate any impact
• Estimate resources and identify risks to achieve project goals
• Work closely with partners and Product Managers to influence product strategy and resolve product development roadmap. Provide planning support for the technology roadmap
• Anticipate and recognize bottlenecks in work processes between teams and make suggestions for ongoing improvement
• Lead implementation teams and ensure the execution of new insights or approaches
• Share domain and industry knowledge between multi-functional teams
• Identify areas where efficiency and process improvement are needed and implement effective solutions
• Apply new insights to improve team outputs
• Establish tools and techniques to supervise progress related to implementing process improvements
• Work with different project teams across analytics, technology, and product, to define purpose-built schemas to handle large-scale and non-relational workloads
• Provide mentorship and technical direction to on and off-shore team-members and evangelize best practices and methodologies
• Identify areas of improvement within the code and suggest solutions
• Advocate for operational excellence (such as unit testing, establishing SLAs (Service Level Agreements), programming for resiliency, and scalability)
• 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
• Evaluate current team projects or goals and identify the relevant skills and expertise needed to accomplish them
• Plan for and distribute vital resources to ensure the accomplishment of team goals
• Supervise resource use to ensure minimal waste and reduce redundancy of efforts
• Guide employees in the development of individual goals, provide regular and specific feedback, and assess performance
• Encourage and support the education and professional development of employees
• Mentor employees by providing advice and recommendations based on your own experience and takeaways
• Self-starter that enjoys and takes pride in the engineering work of their team

Who you are:

• BS degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or related technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience
• Strong interpersonal skills
• 10+ years of proven work experience in the field of Software Engineering and at least 2+ years in technical leadership with a team size of more than 12 developers
• Have experience as manager of managers: you have managed at least 1 people manager in the past
• Have strong technical foresight which allows you to be responsible for the technical domain; identify strengths and weaknesses among languages and select among available technologies to implement and tackle the need
• Must have in-depth working knowledge of architecting, maintaining, and scaling backend services that deal with connecting to external service
• Understands when and how to reward and recognize team members
• Has acted as a mentor for multiple people leaders and individual contributors
• Has defined team goals and how they fit a business need: working as an enabler for the team to then meet these goals
• We Lead Humbly. Our leaders serve their teams. None of us has all of the answers, but we are curious, and we are always looking to learn. Though our leaders take their responsibilities to our business and their teams exceptionally seriously, they never take themselves too seriously
• People enjoy working with you because you are phenomenal at what you do
• Your skills and work ethic encourages the entire team to improve their craft

The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $173,000.00 to $242, Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $277,000.00, 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 individuals knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.

Expedia Group is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to support employees and their families, including medical/dental/vision, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program. To fuel each employees passion for travel, we offer a wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and an International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership. View our full list of benefits.

About Expedia Group

Expedia Group (NASDAQ: EXPE) powers travel for everyone, everywhere through our global platform. Driven by the core belief that travel is a force for good, we help people experience the world in new ways and build lasting connections. We provide industry-leading technology solutions to fuel partner growth and success, while facilitating memorable experiences for travelers. Expedia Group's family of brands includes: Brand Expedia, , Expedia Partner Solutions, Vrbo, trivago, Orbitz, Travelocity, Hotwire, Wotif, ebookers, CheapTickets, Expedia Group Media Solutions, Expedia Local Expert, , and Expedia Cruises.

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