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Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering
Introduction to the Team:
Expedia Group B2B connects partners across the travel industry to our leading technology, supply, and services - helping them deliver seamless travel experiences to their customers. From airlines and hotels to financial institutions and other travel platforms, we power smarter, faster, and more impactful travel solutions through the most connected marketplace in the world.
The Digital Operations Supply Marketing (DigOps Engineering) sits at the intersection of supply marketing and engineering, organized into three streams: Data Engineering, Software Engineering, and Innovation. Data Engineering owns the ETL pipelines moving data to/from Marketo, SFMC, and other marketing platforms across our business verticals (Hotels, VR, B2B/Connectivity, OCF). The Software Engineering stream, which this role leads, builds and runs the DigOps Utilities platform and front-end tooling that let marketers and designers move faster without waiting on engineering for every change. Our users are Marketing Operations teams across Hotels, VR, Connectivity and OCF, and we work side by side with them on intake, QA and launch.
Make An Impact! Are you a hands-on engineering leader who loves turning marketing operations into scalable, self-service platforms? Are you ready to build and grow a high-performing team at a leading travel technology company? If this sounds like you, keep reading!
The Expedia for Business Digital Operations Supply Marketing team is looking for a Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering to lead our Software Engineering stream.
This role owns the technical vision, delivery, and team growth for the DigOps Utilities platform: the self-service tools marketing operations use every day to run campaigns, such as Multi-Select (partner opt-in/opt-out and Expiring DRR), Bulk List Upload, Target List Upload and scheduler, token upload/download, Babel Prime localization and A/B testing. It also covers the AI Orchestration engine that builds Marketo programs and templates from Figma files, GenAI-assisted Email QA, and the data-integration layer (Trino/Starburst, Salesforce, EGA) behind our utilities. You will lead the move of these utilities from legacy PHP to our new utility stack, and shape how they evolve as we move toward SFMC.
If you are someone with a growth mindset and love solving complex and challenging problems, come join us on this exciting journey.
In This Role You Will:
- Lead and grow an engineering team, building self-service marketing utilities on the DigOps Utilities platform, including Multi-Select and Expiring DRR, Bulk List Upload, Target List Upload and scheduling, token upload/download, A/B testing, and localization/translation tooling (Babel Prime multi-asset support), with CSV/TSV data handling for Marketo campaigns
- Lead the migration of legacy PHP utilities (hosted on the CoE and MSLPS servers, with per-brand copies) to the new DigOps Utilities stack, including cutover, validation with Marketing Operations, and retirement of the legacy code
- Plan the rebuild or replacement of Marketo-based utilities for SFMC, so marketers keep the same self-service experience on the new platform
- Own the API and data-integration layer connecting our utilities to Trino/Starburst, Salesforce (ACR, account, and contact tables), and EGA data sources. This includes schema management and Lake Formation permissioning across environments
- Own the technical roadmap for front-end development across every DigOps project, including the self-service utility UIs marketers and designers use daily
- Own the AI Orchestration engine that generates Marketo templates from Figma files, and GenAI-assisted Email QA
- Partner with design and marketing stakeholders to push template build support toward designer self-service
- Own platform and infrastructure health for DigOps tooling (Okta sign-in and access groups, Cloud Gate Proxy, deployment automation) and drive down tech debt, including reliable background processing (for example idempotent Celery tasks and batch status/failure reporting)
- Establish engineering best practices for API design, coding, testing, observability, and operational readiness
- Run support and incident readiness for the utilities: work with Marketing Operations on the utility bug and outage process, and build monitoring and alerting (such as Datadog) so failures are caught and routed before marketers are affected
- Recruit, develop, and mentor engineering managers and their teams, creating an inclusive, high-performing culture and clear career paths for the engineers below them
- Partner with cross-functional leads (Data Engineering, Innovation) to align priorities across Supply Marketing
- Balance near-term delivery commitments with longer-term platform modernization
Experience and Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent related professional experience
- 8+ years of software engineering experience
- 3+ years of experience managing engineering managers or team leads, not just individual contributors
- Proven track record delivering production services or platforms at scale
- Strong experience with distributed systems, RESTful API design, and AWS-based platforms
- Experience with front-end development frameworks and modern JavaScript/TypeScript stacks
- Experience building and operating Python web services with asynchronous or batch job processing (queues, workers, retries), and relational databases such as Postgres
- Experience modernizing legacy applications (for example PHP) to a new stack, including phased cutover and retirement of the old system
- Hands-on experience with marketing technology (MarTech)/CRM platforms such as Marketo and Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SFMC) is a key requirement, including an understanding of campaign data models and marketing data integrations
- Demonstrated ability to lead teams through technical change and platform modernization
- Strong cross-functional communication and stakeholder management skills
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with Figma-to-code or design-system tooling integrations
- Experience building internal self-service tools for marketing or operations teams, such as bulk list and audience uploads, campaign setup and opt-in/opt-out workflows, with strong validation and clear status and error reporting for non-technical users
- Experience with marketing personalization or recommendation systems (e.g., next-best-action or opportunity engines) that surface campaign or audience signals
- Experience with localization or translation workflows for global marketing campaigns across multiple languages
- Broader software engineering experience across multiple domains or tech stacks beyond this team’s core stack is a plus. Marketing-domain exposure is valuable, but depth as a software engineering leader comes first
- Experience in the travel or e-commerce industry
The total cash range for this position in Austin 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. 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.
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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.
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