Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.

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.

Introduction to the team

The White Label Travel Platform (WLTP) Tech team is part of the B2B Division. Our team is responsible for launching new partnerships on WLTP, building integrations with WLTP partners, and delivering growth for our top strategic partners. Our platform and services are built on a microservices architecture and run in the cloud leveraging Amazon Web Services (AWS).

The Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering will lead the White Label Travel Platform (WLTP) teams in Bangalore, developing partner integrations and delivering tailored technical solutions to support strategic partnerships, and ensuring continuous operational excellence and evolution of partner-facing systems. This role partners closely with product and engineering stakeholders at Expedia Group to evolve microservices, improve engineering practices, and deliver resilient, extensible solutions as well as our WLTP Partners.

You will provide hands-on technical leadership, coach and develop team members, and contribute across the full software development lifecycle. Success in this role requires deep experience in distributed systems, AWS-based platforms, and high-volume transactional environments.

In this role, you will:

• Lead multiple software engineering teams that build and evolves services and platforms that power the White Label Travel Platform, ensuring reliability, scalability, and high performance across global traffic patterns.

• Define, communicate, and drive a clear technical vision and roadmap for WLTP services, API design, and data modeling aligned with product and architecture strategies.

• Establish and enforce engineering best practices for design, coding, testing, observability, security, and operational readiness, while continuously improving build, deployment, and release processes.

• Partner closely with product, architecture, and other platforms and feature teams to deliver cross-domain initiatives, enabling reuse and fungibility of services and capabilities across multiple lines of business.

• Build, mentor, and grow a diverse, high-performing engineering organization through coaching, performance management, and effective hiring, while fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and psychological safety.
• Develop and execute strategic action plans to optimize resource utilization, effectively managing allocation and consumption across engineering teams to drive efficiency and operational excellence.
• Leverage Generative AI for day-to-day engineering workflows including but not limited to code reviews, unit testing, automated root cause analysis, mitigating bugs, developing features, as well as for effective resource utilization.

Experience and qualifications:

• You have 3-6+ years of experience managing engineering teams, with a 8+ years of technical experience in software engineering
• You have demonstrated technical acumen with the ability to own multiple technical domains and effectively justify architectural and technology trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• You have a proven track record owning end-to-end delivery and operations of critical services or multi-service platforms, including system design (LLD), API design, data modeling, and operational excellence (monitoring, alerting, incident response).

• You have strong technical leadership skills with hands-on depth in one or more modern programming languages, service-oriented or microservices architectures, and cloud-native technologies and tooling.

• Demonstrated ability to align engineering execution with product and business priorities, managing trade-offs to deliver high-quality outcomes at scale.
• Familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying such concepts to real world products, with the ability to identify pragmatic use cases.
• You have a bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

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.

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