Senior Engineering Manager — Hotels.com Technology

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. 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.

We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to join Hotels.com Technology in London, building the next generation of one of the world's best-known travel brands. Our mission is to make Hotels.com distinctive, indispensable, and worth talking about — by relentlessly improving the marketplace fundamentals travelers expect, and then innovating well beyond those table stakes to delight and surprise them. Concretely, that means removing friction across the shopping funnel and holding an uncompromising bar for quality and reliability; earning more direct traveler relationships through clearly valuable, differentiated experiences surfaced at the right moments; and taking real swings on novel experiences that set the brand apart. This role is deliberately broad. Rather than owning a single fixed area, you will lead your team against the highest-leverage problems in the Hotels.com experience as our priorities evolve — shopping and conversion, traveler identity and loyalty, app and web experiences, and the platform capabilities underneath them. You will own technical direction and delivery for your team, drive system and API design for performance-critical, high-traffic customer-facing services, and partner closely with Product, Design, Data, Marketing, and Platform teams in small, end-to-end squads with clear ownership.   This is a hands-on leadership role. We are not looking for a pure people manager: you are expected to stay technically current and close to the code — reviewing designs and pull requests, prototyping, debugging production issues alongside your engineers, and making credible technical calls yourself. Equally, you will deliberately upskill your engineers across domains and stacks, so the team can move to wherever the highest-value work is rather than being boxed into a single specialism.   As a people-first leader, you will grow and support a high-performing team of engineers, balancing rapid delivery with platform health and long-term sustainability, while fostering a culture of safe AI/ML adoption, small experiments over long planning cycles, and strong engineering fundamentals. In this role, you will: Lead a software engineering team in designing, building, and operating highly available, performant, and secure customer-facing services, including system design (LLD), API design, and data modeling for complex traveler-facing capabilities. Stay