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.

Introduction to Team:

Our Technology Team partners with teams across Expedia Group to create innovative products, services, and tools to deliver high-quality experiences for travelers, partners, and our employees. A singular technology platform powered by data and machine learning provides secure, differentiated, and personalized experiences that drive loyalty and traveler satisfaction.

This senior engineering manager role is part of the design system team which sits within our technology division. The team develops and maintains a unified design system that helps teams build consistent, accessible, scalable, and brand-supportive experiences across web, iOS, and Android through reusable components, design standards, tokens, and theming. In this role, you will lead people and delivery for a high-impact engineering team, setting direction, developing talent, and ensuring the team delivers outcomes aligned with business goals.

In this role, you will:

• Lead, coach, and develop engineering teams responsible for Expedia Group’s design system, fostering technical excellence, accountability, and continuous growth.
• Define and execute the technical strategy for reusable design-system capabilities that improve consistency, accessibility, developer productivity, and customer experiences across products.
• Guide architecture and implementation decisions across system design, low-level design, API design, data modeling, and integration patterns for services and shared components.
• Partner with product, design, accessibility, and engineering stakeholders to establish priorities, align roadmaps, and deliver scalable solutions across multiple domains.
• Establish engineering practices that strengthen reliability, quality, security, observability, and operational excellence for design-system platforms and services.
• 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.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of relevant professional experience and 3+ years of people management experience
• Experience owning technical direction and delivery across a multi-service platform, shared capability, or technical domain.
• Strong knowledge of software architecture, system design, low-level design, API design, data modeling, testing, observability, and production operations.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence, manage technical execution across teams, and translate business and customer needs into engineering outcomes.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience leading the evolution of a design system or comparable shared platform used by multiple product teams, with close partnership across UX, product, design, accessibility, and engineering.
• Experience managing and developing full-stack developers and mobile engineers while scaling reliable, accessible, secure, and maintainable engineering systems across a broad product ecosystem.
• Track record of operating and scaling reliable, accessible, and maintainable engineering systems across a broad product ecosystem..
• Familiarity with AI-assisted engineering workflows or AI/ML-enabled product capabilities, with the judgment to evaluate and operate these solutions responsibly.
• Experience building strong partnerships across engineering, product, design, and other technical disciplines to drive adoption of shared capabilities.

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.

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

Employment opportunities and job offers at Expedia Group will always come from Expedia Group's Talent Acquisition and hiring teams. Never share sensitive personal information unless you are confident of the recipient. Expedia Group does not extend job offers via email or messaging tools to individuals with whom we have not made prior contact. Our email domain is @expediagroup.com. The official place to find and apply for roles is https://careers.expediagroup.com/jobs/.

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.