Expedia

Expedia Group has a mission to become the world’s travel platform. As part of that effort, we are building a payments platform for vacation rentals. Our PCI compliant platform executes billions of dollars worth of transactions and includes a 24x7 mission critical suite of services. We are looking for a Director of Engineering to lead this effort and expand our payment options for travelers and features for our vacation rental partners by building a world class payments platform.
In addition to people management responsibilities, as the leader of the Payments teams you will be responsible for collaborating with partners across the business in creating and executing a strategic plan for delivering new features required by the business while building a robust and scalable platform that can be leveraged across Expedia Group. This role oversees teams involved with processing payments from travelers, onboarding of new partners to our payments platform, payout of payments to those partners and financial reporting to partners and to Expedia’s financial systems and tax compliance.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:
- You will lead and mentor multiple teams of developers and their managers.

- Build reliable, highly available, and highly scalable systems in a lean, agile, and test driven environment.

- You will partner closely with other tech leads and product managers to design and implement cutting-edge solutions.

- You will collaborate with teams across multiple organizations in Expedia Group to deliver new features to the payments platform.

- Help teams break through challenges by managing upwards to be sure innovation and speed to market are not impeded.

WHO YOU ARE:
Leadership Qualifications:

- You bring 8+ years of experience mentoring and developing teams for managers and individual contributors.

- You are experienced in leading software development teams at a Director level capacity.

- You have experience working multi-functionally to deliver business results.

- You are comfortable with ambiguity and influence.

- You possess an intellectual curiosity to seek out parallels across industries and instill implications within Expedia Group technology solutions.

TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field

- 8+ years in software development

- Having Payments & E-Commerce experience is a plus

- Deep knowledge of web services standards and related technologies (REST, JSON, XML)

- Experience with relational databases and non-relational datastores (SQL Server, PostGres, MongoDB, etc.)

- Validated track-record of building fast, reliable, large, multi-threaded, scalable, service-oriented web services

- Experience in profiling high traffic web applications and services 

BENEFITS & PERKS:
- Competitive health and insurance benefits.

- Competitive salary.

- Annual target bonus or commission.

- Parental leave for up to 20 weeks (dependent on eligibility).

- Paid vacation and sick time.

- Employee Stock Purchase Program.

- Free snacks and beverages.

- Frequent company update talks with our leadership team.

- Free listing on Vrbo.com.

- Electronic, adjustable stand-up desk.

- Discounted Metro & Rail pass.

- Casual dress.

WHY JOIN US:
Expedia Group recognizes our success is dependent on the success of our people. We are the world's travel platform, made up of the most knowledgeable, passionate, and creative people in our business. Our brands recognize the power of travel to break down barriers and make people's lives better – that responsibility inspires us to be the place where exceptional people want to do their best work, and to provide them to tools to do so.

Whether you're applying to work in engineering or customer support, marketing or lodging supply, at Expedia Group we act as one team, working towards a common goal; to bring the world within reach. We relentlessly strive for better, but not at the cost of the customer. We act with humility and optimism, respecting ideas big and small. We value diversity and voices of all volumes. We are a global organization but keep our feet on the ground so we can act fast and stay simple. Our teams also have the chance to give back on a local level and make a difference through our corporate social responsibility program, Expedia Cares.

Our family of travel brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Egencia®, trivago®, Vrbo®, 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®. 

ABOUT VRBO
In 1995, Vrbo introduced a new way for people to travel together, pairing homeowners with families and friends looking for places to stay. We were grounded in one purpose: To give people the space they need to drop the distractions of everyday life and simply be together. Since then, we've grown into a global community of homeowners and travelers, with unique properties in 190 countries around the world. Vrbo makes it easy and fun to book cabins, condos, beach houses and every kind of space in between.

Vrbo is part of HomeAway and the Expedia Group family of brands and offers homeowners and property managers exposure to over 750 million visits to Expedia Group sites each month. To learn more, visit www.vrbo.com.

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, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.

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, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.