Front End Engineering Manager, Data Platform
ExpediaWhat You’ll Get:
As a leader, you will be driving Vrbo's engineering culture, by building, evangelizing and supporting the environments used by all of Vrbos's engineers globally. You’ll have the chance to drive the development experience on the state-of-the-art cloud technologies. Our continuously growing footprint will give you the opportunity to work at scale while being creative in an agile team. You’ll be joining an established team where people go out of their way to help each other succeed. You’ll also get to work with partners across the globe gaining international experience in a fast-paced travel industry all while working in an incredible office space!
What You'll Do:
- What is the purpose of building this data platform? To bring the world's travel data within reach!
Manage a team of Software Engineers following Agile methodologies
Recruit, mentor, and motivate phenomenal engineering talent.
Set and communicate goals and roadmap
Partner with engineering and product leaders to design strategy and vision of EG Data Platform UX team.
Organize, promote, and drive Agile development processes within the team
Deliver interactive and data-driven UI components and front-end libraries
Construct a flexible and a well-structured front-end architecture for these reusable components
Establish, maintain, and report SLA/SLI/SLO as related to your services
Ship early, ship often, with quality and confidence
Who You Are:
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience, in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or a related field
Strong understanding of how to design an effective engineering organization from the ground up and build a positive engineering-driven culture
5+ years of experience with the full life cycle of software development in consumer-facing web and mobile applications
Expert knowledge of front-end frameworks such as React, Angular, Vue, and other Single Page Applications (SPAs).
An in-depth understanding of JavaScript, the DOM, JavaScript object model, and relevant concepts.
Experience building, adopting and maintaining RESTful apis
Familiarity with CICD / Automation Tools
Experience in collaborating with geographically distributed teams is a plus.
Experience in the search domain highly desirable
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®, 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®.
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.