Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering
Posted on: 12 Feb 2022
Seattle, WA
Job Description
We're looking for an Engineering Manager who enjoys leading and forming a team, loves to challenge the status quo, does not hesitate from taking initiatives, and loves to own the team through new challenges and technologies. With your experience, technical skillset, and passion for mentoring and inspiring others, you and your team will create the components and experiences that enable the Insurance platform.
What you will do:
You will lead a team of 6-8 engineers to design and implement features and use cases for new functionality and improvements to existing products and ensure the execution of new insights or approaches
You will guide and mentor employees and managers in the development of the team and individual goals, providing regular and specific feedback, and assessing individual and team performance
You will review the skill and expertise requirements to accomplish team goals and identify staffing and talent resources to fill project roles
You will ensure efficient Full-Time Employee to contingent worker ratio is maintained on the team
You will bridge the gap in discussions between technology and non-technology personnel. Report on team status and listen for suggestions to improve lagging project work
You will remain informed on technology trends. Examine inefficiencies in the existing stack operation and encourage engineers to improve them
You will convey the right information to the accurate parties to ensure that proposals for improvements are given accurate consideration and technical issues are resolved in a timely manner
You contribute to advancing the team's design methodology and quality programming practices and mentor junior team members
You will advocate for operational excellence (such as unit testing, establishing SLAs, programming for resiliency, and scalability)
You will determine different phase landmarks and priorities with product and program management peers
You will anticipate and recognize bottlenecks in work processes between teams and makes suggestions for ongoing improvement
Who you are:
Bachelor's or Master's degree in a related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience
You are a leader and work phenomenal within a team and have a true “team first” attitude
You have delivered solutions to business problems spanning teams
Ability to work in a diverse organization with global decentralized teams, working across multiple locations
You have strong technical acuity which allows you to be responsible for multiple technical domains; justifying technology choices to technical and non-technical observers
Strong problem solving and analytical skills in redefining product requirements into user stories for engineers to work on
You have acted as a mentor for individual contributors and managers on a team
Recruited 5+ engineers into their own team
Expedia
Bellevue, WA
About Expedia Group
Our mission is to revolutionize travel through the power of technology.
Collectively, the Expedia Group brands cover virtually every aspect of researching, planning, and booking travel, from choosing the best airplane seat, to reading personal travel reviews of hotels, to planning what to do in a destination once you arrive. The Expedia Group portfolio serves both leisure and business travelers with tastes and budgets ranging from modest to luxury. Expedia delivers consumer travel demand from nearly every continent to nearly 149,000 hotels and hundreds of airlines, tour operators, car rental companies and destination services supply partners
Expedia, Inc. is revolutionizing travel through the power of technology, and the eCP team is at the heart of that mission. eCP provides a premier platform of eCommerce technologies and services operating at global scale to support our rapidly growing family of brands.
Together, we enable each of our customer transactions to flow seamlessly from the click of the 'book' button on one of our brand sites all the way through to a magnificent travel experience. By bringing together product, technology and operations, we accelerate innovation, enable test and learn, and constantly push ourselves to evolve and innovate for the business.
Our family of travel brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Egencia®, trivago®, HomeAway®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Wotif®, lastminute.com.au®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Hotwire®, Classic Vacations®, Expedia® Media Solutions, CarRentals.com™, Expedia Local Expert®, Expedia® CruiseShipCenters®, SilverRail Technologies, Inc., ALICE and Traveldoo®.
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IndustryInformation Technology
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No. of Employees22,615+
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