The Senior Manager, Mobile Engineering leads the team responsible for Expedia's native iOS and Android platforms, providing both technical and people leadership across mobile engineering. The role is accountable for engineering execution, platform strategy, operational excellence, and talent development, ensuring teams deliver reliable, scalable, and high-quality mobile experiences. Working closely with Product, Design, Architecture, Security, Quality, and Operations partners, this leader will help shape the future of Expedia's mobile ecosystem, driving engineering best practices, modern mobile architecture, release readiness, observability, and the effective adoption of AI-enabled development capabilities.
The team plays a critical role in delivering seamless customer experiences while enabling the business to bring new products and features to market quickly and safely. Current priorities include evolving the next generation of mobile platform architecture, improving app performance and release quality, strengthening observability and operational resilience, and reducing the risk of customer-impacting issues in production. This is an opportunity to lead a highly experienced team and influence technical strategy across a business-critical platform, with direct impact on customer satisfaction, engineering velocity, and Expedia's mobile growth.
In this role, you will:
- Lead mobile engineering teams delivering reliable, scalable native applications and shared mobile platform capabilities across multiple product domains.
- Set technical direction for mobile architecture, including system design, low-level design, API design, data modeling, integration patterns, and maintainable implementation practices across iOS and Android.
- Build and develop a high-performing, distributed engineering organization through hiring, performance management, mentoring, career development, skill planning, and clear alignment to customer and business outcomes.
- Partner with Product, Design, Architecture, Quality, Operations, App Release, Security, and business teams to shape roadmaps, manage dependencies, and deliver measurable product and platform outcomes.
- Establish predictable release and operational practices across the App Store and Google Play, improving software quality, observability, release safety, incident response, performance, accessibility, and customer-impacting reliability.
- Safely integrate and operate AI/ML-enabled solutions that improve engineering and product outcomes, applying AI-driven tools and workflows appropriately within mobile experiences and engineering platforms.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8+ years of relevant professional experience and 3+ years of people-management experience, including leadership of mobile engineering teams delivering production applications through the App Store and Google Play.
- Experience owning engineering outcomes across multiple services or a substantial mobile technology domain, including architecture, roadmap delivery, reliability, operational performance, maintenance, and technical investment.
- Strong knowledge of mobile software development across iOS, Android, and shared mobile capabilities, including system design, low-level design, API design, data modeling, testing, deployment, release management, and production operations.
- Experience developing technical strategy, managing capacity and staffing, influencing cross-functional stakeholders, and leading teams through complex engineering and product initiatives.
- Familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real world products, including safely integrating AI-enabled capabilities into mobile experiences or engineering platforms.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience leading architecture and engineering strategy for large-scale native mobile platforms serving multiple products or domains, with the ability to apply mobile expertise across varied technical and organizational contexts.
- Demonstrated success improving operational excellence through observability, incident management, release automation, quality practices, phased rollouts, rollback and hotfix processes, and data-driven engineering decisions.
- Experience building adaptable, high-performing engineering teams and establishing practices that improve delivery velocity, technical quality, developer effectiveness, and resource utilization.
- Experience using product, customer, and operational data—including crash-free users, startup and time-to-interactive performance, ANR or freeze rates, adoption, experiment health, and customer-impacting defects—to prioritize investments and guide technical decisions.
🌍 Europe | Ref ID: ST-14701
