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 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.

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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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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, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.