Senior Director Engineering – Flights

Senior Director Engineering, Flights

This role is eligible for our hybrid work model: Two days in-office

Our Technology team is the backbone of our company: constantly creating, testing, learning and iterating to better meet the needs of our customers. If you thrive in a fast-paced, ideas-led environment, you’re in the right place.

Why this job’s a big deal:

As one of our leaders, you’ll have a big impact on our products and their technical direction, as well as influence the company's technical strategy.  You will also have a big impact on your team members, their day-to-day experience on our team and their growth over time.  To continuously deliver on our goal to be the best travel deal makers in the world for millions of our customers, we need to have well designed technology that is reliable, performs well, and allows for the continuous improvements we make to our products, and we also need to have teams that feel engaged, productive, empowered, and sustainable.  All of this requires talented leaders with the right mix of technical, collaborative, management, and leadership skills and values.

In this role you will get to:

• Lead and be responsible for a software development team that owns the services that power Priceline’s Flight Platform

• Actively participate on a leadership team that includes other development managers, product managers, and a technical program manager, and work closely with both technology and business stakeholders.

• Manage and coach talented engineers of all levels of experience.

• Have influence on what we build, how we build, and how we work.

• Be involved in many projects, initiatives, and discussions.

• Collaborate with other leaders across the organization in the execution of large initiatives and in developing long-term technology road maps.

• Participate in various formal and/or grass-roots technical and non-technical communities at Priceline.

• Become part of a team and organization that is passionate about our work, but values a healthy work/life balance.

Who you are:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or related field.

• 15+ years of experience in software engineering and development.

• 5+ years experience in leading software development teams.

• Experience and skill in hiring, coaching, and developing engineering talent, including performance management.

• Have managed a combination of people leaders and high level individual contributors

• Overseen an organization of 20+ members

• Worked in a global teams setup collaborating with cross functional teams globally

• Managed multiple priorities and able to manage change effectively

• Proven collaboration skills with both technical and less-technical colleagues.

• Significant coding experience with Java or similar programming languages.

• Good knowledge and experience working on SQL and NoSQL technologies.

• Experience with Spring Frameworks, Web Services and APIs.

• Experience in microservices, Kubernetes, Docker.

• Experience with developing on Cloud, especially GCP and AWS.

• Have worked with or developed a internal support model for service management 

• Illustrated history of living the values necessary to Priceline:  Customer, Innovation, Team, Accountability and Trust. 

• The Right Results, the Right Way is not just a motto at Priceline; it’s a way of life. Unquestionable integrity and ethics is essential.