Director, Software Development Engineering

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: As Director, you will lead the engineering organization responsible for Reservations across two of Expedia Group's largest lines of business: Conventional Lodging (hotels) and Vacation Rentals (Vrbo). This platform ensures that the booking is completed across all systems starting from the moment a traveler clicks "book" till the moment a supplier, a hotel property or a vacation rental host, actually confirms that room or home. It is the system of record and execution for every reservation created, retrieved, changed, cancelled, and reconciled across every EG brand and every point of sale, globally. The scale of these platforms is substantially high since Conventional Lodging alone represents a large majority of Expedia's transaction volume, processing bookings across local inventory, third-party inventory, and GDS supply. Vacation Rentals adds a second, structurally distinct booking model, whole-property rentals with owner/property-manager supply, dynamic quote-and-hold flows, and its own settlement and payout mechanics. Across both businesses, this organization owns dozens of production services spanning booking orchestration, price/availability validation, fulfillment, cancellation, change management, settlement, and event publishing to finance and analytics. Platform capabilities you will own and continue to raise the bar on: Scalability — supporting booking, retrieve, and post-booking traffic that scales across markets, brands, and business models without re-architecting for every new use case. High-performance — the team is actively driving end-to-end booking latency down, because every additional second at checkout measurably costs conversion and revenue. High throughput — the platform must absorb booking, price-check, and inventory-adjustment traffic at production scale continuously, including peak demand events, without degrading the traveler experience. Resiliency — this is a highly compliant and audited revenue-critical system, designed with redundancy, safe rollout mechanisms, and recovery paths, because a failed booking is a failed sale. In this role, you will: Own the Conventional Lodging (hotels) and Vacation Rentals (Vrbo) , defining and evolving a multi‑year technical and organizational strategy in partnership with Product, Architecture, and Operations. Shape a modular, API‑first, event‑driven architecture that supports rapid product innovation, new lines of business, and global scale. Lead the design and delivery of a workflow‑centric order orchestration layer using modern workflow engines and patterns (e.g., long‑running transactions, sagas, event sourcing) to ensure consistency and flexibility. Drive decomposition of legacy capabilities into well‑bounded domains and services with clear contracts, SLIs/SLOs, and guardrails, ensuring the platform is highly available, performant, observable, and cost‑efficient. Scale and lead a 50–60 person engineering organization through a team‑of‑teams model, setting clear outcomes and expectations, building hiring and succession plans, and fostering a culture of psychological safety, inclusion, high accountability, and continuous improvement. Drive engineering and operational excellence ,