Senior Engineering Manager

📍 Location

Rome

💰 Compensation

• Base Salary: €73.000 – €102.500
• Potential earnings up to €117.000 based on sustained performance

🏢 About Expedia Group

Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge technology to make travel smoother and more memorable, while creating innovative solutions for our partners.

Our diverse, vibrant, and inclusive community is essential to our success.

🌍 Why Join Us

We believe that shaping the future of travel starts with people.

We offer:

• Travel perks and discounts
• Generous paid time off
• Parental leave
• Flexible work model
• Career development resources
• Wellness & travel reimbursement
• IATAN membership
• Comprehensive employee benefits package

🖥️ The Role

We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Landing Pages Platform team in Rome.

You will be responsible for building and operating Expedia's next-generation AI-ready landing page platform, powering high-traffic landing pages across paid and organic acquisition channels.

You will own the technical direction and delivery of the experience layer, ensuring reliable, performant, and context-aware customer experiences.

Working closely with Product, Marketing, Data, and Platform teams, you will transform search demand and experimentation opportunities into scalable landing experiences.

As a people-first leader, you will grow and support high-performing engineering teams while balancing delivery speed, platform health, and long-term sustainability.

🚀 In This Role, You Will

• Lead multiple software engineering teams designing, building, and operating highly available, secure, and performant services
• Drive system design, API design, and data modeling for customer-facing platforms
• Define and execute the long-term technical strategy for your area
• Align engineering decisions with business goals
• Establish engineering quality, reliability, and operational excellence standards
• Ensure best practices across:
  • CI/CD
  • Monitoring
  • Alerting
  • Incident response
• Hire, mentor, and develop engineers and managers
• Foster an inclusive, high-performing engineering culture
• Safely integrate and operate AI/ML-enabled solutions
• Coordinate multiple workstreams and cross-functional initiatives
• Manage dependencies, risks, and cross-team delivery

👤 Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
• Technical degree preferred
• 8+ years of professional experience
• 3+ years of people management experience
• Experience managing engineering teams with end-to-end ownership of services or platforms
• Strong software engineering foundations including:
  • Object-oriented or functional programming
  • System Design (LLD)
  • API Design
  • Data Modeling
  • Testing Strategies
  • CI/CD Pipelines
• Familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, and workflows
• Ability to guide teams in safely adopting AI/ML-enabled solutions

⭐ Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading multiple engineering teams or large technical domains
• Experience driving architecture decisions for distributed systems at scale
• Proven success improving:
  • Reliability
  • Performance
  • Cost efficiency
• Strong stakeholder management across product and engineering organizations
• Experience defining operational excellence standards:
  • Observability
  • Incident Management
  • On-call Processes
  • Post-incident Reviews
• Experience integrating AI/ML-powered capabilities into production systems, including:
  • Personalization
  • Ranking
  • Recommendations
  • Intelligent Automation
• Experience with AI governance, evaluation, and model-driven product iteration

🎁 Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Paid time off
• Employee Assistance Program
• Wellness reimbursement
• Travel reimbursement
• Expedia travel discounts
• IATAN membership
• Flexible work environment
• Career development opportunities

🏆 Why This Opportunity

• Leadership role within one of the world's largest travel technology companies
• Ownership of an AI-ready platform serving millions of users
• Opportunity to lead multiple engineering teams
• Direct impact on customer acquisition experiences
• Strong focus on AI adoption and innovation
• International and highly collaborative environment
• Competitive compensation and benefits package