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Avis Budget Group

Global car rental and sharing provider

Engineering Manager - Multiple Teams

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/23/2026
$130k - $160k/yr
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Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ, USA
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Engineering ManagementEngineering Leadership

About the job

Requirements
  • 15–17+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, architecture, and technology leadership.
  • Significant experience architecting and managing large-scale enterprise applications and distributed platforms.
  • Proven experience leading multiple engineering teams and senior technical resources.
  • Deep expertise in API-first and API-led architecture.
  • Strong experience with API management platforms such as Apigee, 3scale, and RedSwift.
  • Extensive experience designing RESTful APIs, API gateways, API products, and enterprise integration platforms.
  • Strong understanding of GDS architecture and large-scale transaction processing.
  • Extensive experience with Java, Spring Boot, microservices, and distributed systems.
  • Significant hands-on experience with AWS architecture, including CDN/edge delivery and cloud-native services.
  • Experience designing hybrid architectures spanning AWS, on-premises, mainframe, and GDS environments.
  • Strong understanding of event-driven architecture, messaging, Kafka, and asynchronous integration patterns.
  • Experience with enterprise application modernization and legacy/mainframe transformation.
  • Strong knowledge of API security, OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, mTLS, rate limiting, and traffic management.
  • Demonstrated experience with high availability, scalability, performance engineering, and disaster recovery.
  • Strong understanding of DevOps, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, containers, and Kubernetes.
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence senior technical and business stakeholders.
Responsibilities
  • Provide senior technical leadership for the architecture and engineering of large-scale, mission-critical enterprise applications and platforms.
  • Define enterprise application architecture strategies aligned with business objectives, technology roadmaps, and long-term modernization goals.
  • Architect highly available, scalable, resilient, and secure distributed systems supporting high transaction volumes and critical customer journeys.
  • Establish architectural standards and reference architectures for microservices, APIs, event-driven systems, cloud platforms, and enterprise integration.
  • Lead architecture reviews and provide technical direction across multiple engineering teams and technology domains.
  • Translate complex business requirements into scalable technical architectures and actionable engineering roadmaps.
  • Identify architectural risks, technical debt, scalability constraints, and modernization opportunities.
  • Drive technology decisions across build-vs-buy, platform capabilities, integration patterns, and modernization approaches.
  • Own and evolve the enterprise API strategy, establishing APIs as the primary integration mechanism between customer-facing applications, GDS platforms, internal systems, partners, and third-party ecosystems.
  • Architect and govern enterprise-scale API platforms using technologies such as Apigee, 3scale, and RedSwift.
  • Establish standards for API design, governance, versioning, lifecycle management, security, discoverability, throttling, monetization, and observability.
  • Design API products that enable rapid integration across digital channels, mobile applications, GDS platforms, partners, and internal enterprise systems.
  • Define API gateway and management strategies across hybrid cloud, on-premises, and legacy environments.
  • Architect secure API ecosystems using OAuth2, OpenID Connect, JWT, mTLS, rate limiting, API policies, and enterprise identity platforms.
  • Establish API resiliency patterns including throttling, circuit breakers, retries, caching, traffic management, and graceful degradation.
  • Drive API reuse and standardization across engineering organizations to reduce duplication and accelerate delivery.
  • Establish API SLAs, SLOs, performance standards, and operational governance.
  • Provide architectural leadership for Global Distribution System (GDS) capabilities and their integration with modern digital platforms.
  • Design high-volume, low-latency architectures connecting GDS, reservation, rental, availability, pricing, customer, fleet, and partner ecosystems.
  • Lead modernization of GDS and legacy integrations through API-first and event-driven architectures.
  • Architect integration patterns between GDS platforms, mainframe systems, Java microservices, cloud services, and external partners.
  • Evaluate opportunities to decouple tightly coupled legacy capabilities while maintaining business continuity and transactional integrity.
  • Establish scalable integration patterns supporting multiple channels, partners, aggregators, and downstream consumers.
  • Ensure GDS integrations meet enterprise requirements for performance, availability, resiliency, security, and operational support.
  • Lead architecture for high-volume transaction processing where latency, consistency, and availability are critical.
  • Architect and lead modernization of enterprise applications onto AWS using cloud-native and hybrid-cloud patterns.
  • Design highly available architectures leveraging AWS services across compute, networking, storage, messaging, security, and observability.
  • Establish AWS CDN and edge delivery strategies to improve performance, availability, and scalability for customer-facing applications and APIs.
  • Architect global traffic management, caching, edge routing, load balancing, and content delivery strategies.
  • Design solutions using technologies such as Amazon CloudFront, API Gateway, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, SQS/SNS, and other appropriate AWS services.
  • Establish cloud architecture standards covering security, networking, identity, resiliency, cost optimization, and operational excellence.
  • Lead hybrid-cloud integration between AWS, enterprise data centers, mainframe environments, and GDS platforms.
  • Ensure cloud platforms are designed for enterprise-scale availability, disaster recovery, observability, and performance.
  • Lead the transformation of monolithic and legacy applications into domain-aligned microservices and distributed systems.
  • Define service boundaries using domain-driven design and enterprise architecture principles.
  • Establish patterns for synchronous and asynchronous communication across distributed services.
  • Drive adoption of event-driven architecture using technologies such as Kafka, messaging platforms, and cloud-native event services.
  • Ensure microservices are independently deployable, observable, scalable, and resilient.
  • Define strategies for distributed transactions, eventual consistency, idempotency, service discovery, configuration management, and fault tolerance.
  • Establish engineering standards for Java/Spring Boot-based services and other appropriate technology stacks.
  • Lead architecture and modernization initiatives spanning mainframe, GDS, Java, APIs, and cloud platforms.
  • Develop pragmatic modernization strategies that preserve critical business capabilities while reducing legacy dependencies.
  • Establish API façade and strangler-pattern approaches for progressively modernizing legacy applications.
  • Identify capabilities that should be exposed through APIs, migrated to microservices, or retained within existing systems of record.
  • Ensure modernization initiatives maintain transactional integrity, business continuity, and operational stability.
  • Lead and manage multiple engineering teams and technical leads responsible for enterprise platforms and applications.
  • Build a culture of engineering excellence, accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.
  • Mentor senior engineers, architects, and engineering managers.
  • Establish engineering career development, technical growth, and succession strategies.
  • Partner with Product, Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure, Security, Data, DevOps, and business stakeholders.
  • Manage complex technical programs involving multiple teams, systems, vendors, and organizational dependencies.
  • Establish effective engineering operating models across geographically distributed teams.
  • Drive Agile delivery while maintaining appropriate architecture governance and technical quality.
  • Balance short-term delivery requirements with long-term platform sustainability and modernization.
  • Architect systems capable of supporting enterprise-scale transaction volumes and customer traffic.
  • Establish reliability engineering practices covering availability, resiliency, disaster recovery, and capacity planning.
  • Define performance engineering strategies for APIs, GDS integrations, microservices, and customer-facing applications.
  • Establish enterprise observability across APIs and distributed applications using metrics, logging, tracing, and real-time monitoring.
  • Define SLOs, SLIs, operational KPIs, and production readiness standards.
  • Lead architecture and engineering responses to complex production incidents and systemic reliability issues.
  • Drive proactive capacity planning, performance testing, chaos/resiliency testing, and operational readiness.
  • Establish enterprise security architecture for APIs, microservices, cloud applications, and partner integrations.
  • Ensure APIs comply with enterprise authentication, authorization, encryption, data protection, and audit requirements.
  • Establish API security policies across Apigee, 3scale, RedSwift, and related API management platforms.
  • Partner with Cybersecurity and Enterprise Architecture teams to implement Zero Trust and defense-in-depth principles.
  • Ensure security is integrated throughout the software development lifecycle.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience architecting technology platforms within travel, transportation, mobility, hospitality, airline, rental-car, or similar high-volume transaction environments.
  • Experience with large-scale reservation, availability, pricing, booking, or distribution platforms.
  • Experience with AWS CloudFront and global edge architecture.
  • Experience with Apigee API Management and enterprise API governance.
  • Experience with RedSwift and/or 3scale API management ecosystems.
  • Experience with Kafka and event-streaming architectures.
  • Experience with Kubernetes/OpenShift and containerized enterprise applications.
  • Experience with observability platforms such as Splunk, Dynatrace, Datadog, or equivalent.
  • Experience implementing Domain-Driven Design and enterprise integration patterns.
  • Experience with mainframe technologies including COBOL, CICS, DB2, and JCL.
  • Experience managing large technology transformation programs involving multiple platforms and engineering organizations.

About the company

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Avis Budget Group

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Avis Budget Group provides mobility solutions through its brands Avis, Budget, and Zipcar. It offers traditional car rentals and car sharing to people who need temporary transportation. The company operates a global network with about 10,250 rental locations in roughly 180 countries, managing most rental offices in North America, Europe, and Australasia and using licensees elsewhere. Revenue comes mainly from rental fees. The different brands target different customers: Avis as a premium option, Budget as a value option, and Zipcar for urban car sharing. The company aims to give customers flexible vehicle access globally by combining owned and licensed locations with a mix of rental and sharing services.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey

Founded

1946

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What believers are saying

  • Q2 2026 utilization reached 72.6%, a second-quarter record for the company.
  • Per-unit fleet costs dropped 4% to $290 monthly, supporting margins.
  • June 2026 refinancing extended the $2 billion revolver to 2031, easing near-term liquidity.

What critics are saying

  • Pentwater short-squeeze litigation and September 29, 2026 deadline keep governance risk headline-bound.
  • Net corporate leverage hit 7.6x in Q1 2026, limiting strategic flexibility.
  • Second-quarter revenue fell 1% to $3.0 billion, and management gave no guidance.

What makes Avis Budget Group unique

  • Avis' June 1, 2026 Waymo partnership in Dallas proves autonomous rental distribution.
  • Budapest shared-services expansion centralizes EMEA operations, lowering fixed costs across regions.
  • Neology's neoFleet rollout across Avis, Budget, Payless, Truck, and Zipcar streamlines toll management.

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Benefits

  • Paid Vacation
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • 401(k) Company Match
  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • Disability Insurance
  • Commuter Benefits
  • Employee Discounts
  • Employee Assistance Program

Company News

Trefis
Oct 21st, 2026
What Could send Avis Budget stock higher?

What Could send Avis Budget stock higher? October 21st, 2026 · by Trefis Team CARYTD-23.3% SPYYTD+14.0% XLIYTD+9.1% For questions about this article or underlying research, email [email protected]. Shares of Avis Budget (CAR) have fallen 85.7% from their April high. That peak was brief, with the stock dropping 38% and then 48% over the next two trading days. The company's total debt equals 805% of its market value, compared with 19.7% for the S&P 500. Management expects a large cash payment by year-end, however, and has said part of that money will pay off debt. So where is that cash coming from, and how sure is it? Avis Budget Expects $650 Million From Pentwater On the company's July 29, 2026 call, management said Pentwater agreed to pay Avis Budget $650 million in cash under a settlement related to short-swing profits. Management expects the matter to be resolved by year-end. The deal still needs final court approval. Management has also outlined what part of the cash is for. In May, Avis Budget used new notes due in 2031 to cut its notes due in 2027 from $650 million to $350 million. The company plans to retire that remainder by year-end with part of the Pentwater proceeds. Questions like this one test every retirement plan. If your advisor recently retired, it is a good moment for a free second opinion from our partner firm. Is $650 Million Enough To Bring Avis Budget's Leverage Down? Not on its own. The payment equals about 18% of Avis Budget's $3.6 billion market value, a large sum for a company of its size. Against total debt of $29.1 billion, however, it comes to about 2%. Management's leverage goal counts only net corporate debt, which is a smaller part of that total. The business has to help. Higher earnings lower the leverage ratio management is targeting just as repaying debt does. The company's net corporate leverage ratio, measuring debt against adjusted EBITDA, stood at 7.4 times on the July call. Management expects to cut it by at least a full turn by the end of 2026, and reiterated its full-year adjusted EBITDA guide of $850 million to $1 billion. The business is moving the right way so far. Avis Budget reported operating income of $572 million over the twelve months to June 2026, compared with an operating loss of $170 million a year earlier. The shares have not followed. Over the year to October 20, 2026, they lost 31.9% while the S&P 500 returned 17.1%. What Could Keep Avis Budget's Leverage High? Soft travel demand and car recalls are the risks to those earnings. On the July call, management said strategic accounts declined 10% from a year earlier, dropping more than the company had planned. In June, TSA check-ins also fell 1.3% from a year earlier. Recalls added to the pressure. Three carmakers notified Avis Budget of new recalls in April 2026, leaving about 18,000 of its vehicles grounded in total. Management put the direct cost of recalls in 2026 at more than $50 million up to the July call, before lost profit. Even so, management expects adjusted EBITDA to grow from a year earlier in the third quarter, the period Avis Budget reports next. The Pentwater cash is agreed upon and waits only on the court, while the earnings needed to bring leverage down must arrive despite softer travel and grounded cars. Avis Budget's third-quarter adjusted EBITDA is the number to watch in its next report, expected on or around November 3, 2026. Your Advisor Retired? Get A Second Opinion Before You Settle Avis Budget holders are waiting for something new to move the stock. When the advisor who built your plan moves on, it is a natural moment to ask whether the plan still fits the life you have now. Our partner advisory firm offers a free review of your holdings, fees and income plan.

Air Cargo Week
Oct 20th, 2026
Cargo Airline Association appoints Josh Dover as Managing Director for Legislative Affairs.

Cargo Airline Association appoints Josh Dover as Managing Director for Legislative Affairs. * The Cargo Airline Association has announced the latest appointed of Josh Dover, as Managing Director for Legislative Affairs. * Dover brings more than 15 years of experience in government affairs, with strong relationships across Washington, to progress the association's advocacy. * Dover has joined from Avis Budget Group having previously served as Legislative Director for Congresswoman Colleen Hanabusa (D-Hawaii) and Legislative Assistant to Congressman Dale Kildee (D-Michigan). The Cargo Airline Association (CAA) has announced the appointment of Josh Dover as Managing Director for Legislative Affairs. Dover brings more than 15 years of experience in government affairs, aviation and transportation policy, legislative and regulatory strategy and stakeholder engagement. In his new role, Dover will lead CAA's legislative and government affairs efforts and work closely with members, policymakers and industry stakeholders to advance policies that support the safety, security, efficiency and competitiveness of the U.S. air cargo industry. "Josh brings deep aviation experience, strong relationships across Washington and a proven record of advancing sound policy priorities. His experience working with Congress, the Administration, federal agencies and industry partners will be a tremendous asset to CAA and our members. We are excited to welcome Josh to the team," Lauren Beyer, President of the CAA said. Dover joins CAA from Avis Budget Group, where he served as Vice President of Government Affairs and led the company's public policy efforts. In that role, he worked with policymakers at the federal, state and local levels, built coalitions with industry partners and trade associations, and advised senior leadership. Prior to Avis, Dover spent eight years at JetBlue Airways, serving as Director of Government Affairs. Earlier in his career, Dover served as Legislative Director for Congresswoman Colleen Hanabusa (D-Hawaii) and Legislative Assistant to Congressman Dale Kildee (D-Michigan). Dover holds a Master of Arts in Public Policy from Brown University and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Pepperdine University. He has also been recognized multiple times as one of The Hill's Top Lobbyists.

Yahoo Finance
Oct 14th, 2026
Avis posts record 73.2% fleet utilisation on a smaller fleet, but debt and a 72% stock slide persist

Avis Budget (CAR) is renting out more of a smaller fleet, but the stock has lost 72% in six months, against a 14.0% gain for the S&P 500. The company lost money over the last twelve months. Its Americas fleet in the second quarter of 2026 was 5.4% smaller than a year earlier, a deliberate cut to favour profit over market share. Utilisation reached 73.2%, a second-quarter record. Adjusted EBITDA in the Americas rose 7.7% while revenue fell 1.9%. Debt remains heavy: 785.4% of market value, with a net corporate leverage ratio of 7.4 times. Avis received $650 million in October 2026 from a settlement with Pentwater and plans to use part of it to retire its remaining 2027 notes. Demand is weaker. Americas rental days fell 2.1%, and International adjusted EBITDA dropped 11%.

Yahoo Finance
Oct 9th, 2026
Avis Budget stock falls 58% in six months as debt hits 749% of market value

Avis Budget stock has dropped 58% over the past six months, whilst the S&P 500 gained 15.7%. The shares have declined 17.6% in the past month alone. Since 2007, the stock has fallen an average of 43% during 15 market shocks, compared to 15.8% for the S&P 500. During the 2025 US Tariff Shock, Avis Budget fell 41% whilst the index dropped 19%. The company posted a net loss equal to 5.4% of revenue over the last twelve months. Revenue reached $11.8 billion, up from $11.3 billion a year earlier. However, the operating margin fell to 4.8% from 24% three years ago. Avis Budget's debt equals 748.6% of its market value. Management reported a leverage ratio of 7.4 times net debt to adjusted EBITDA.

Hotel Management
Oct 6th, 2026
Melbourne-Born dashback takes lost property returns global.

Melbourne-Born dashback takes lost property returns global. The Melbourne-Founded Service Transforming How Hotels Reunite Guests With Forgotten Belongings Is Preparing To Take Its Australian Success Overseas Dashback is the Melbourne-founded service making it easier for hotel guests to get back the belongings they leave behind. Working with courier partners including Mail Plus, and Pack and Send, the platform gives hotels a fast, hands-off way to return lost items, while giving guests a simple, one-click way to get them back, both domestically and internationally. Founded in 2022 by Andy Brain, Dashback has grown from a single idea into a national operation, now working with more than 300 hotels across Australia and handling more than 1,000 returns each month. With an international returns service now live, the business is preparing for its first offshore launch in New Zealand * The Guest contacts the hotel asking about their lost item. * The hotel checks the PMS and if they have the item, directs the guest to dashback.com.au. * The guest enters their details and payment on the site. * Dashback sends the hotel a pickup alert for one of its courier partners. * Dashback confirms the pickup with the guest and sends a tracking code. The item is delivered to the guest the next business day. Dashback began as an idea Andy Brain shared with his late business partner and friend, Jake Kogakis for moving urgent items between cities. That idea never found traction, but it led Andy to the real problem: lost property. Andy put on a suit and cold-called hotels down Collins Street, and by the time he reached the Westin Melbourne, the story had flipped: hotels were losing hours chasing guests who had checked out and gone home, and what they needed was a simple way to get items back to them. The guest arranges and pays, and the hotel does little more than print a label. "I get as excited switching on a 40-room hotel as I do a 400-room one. Hotels now come to us before they have even opened, so Dashback is running from day one. It is becoming the first port of call for lost property across the sector, and the fact that we are still here and growing every week, four years on, still amazes me." Dashback's network now spans boutique hotels through to major properties including W Sydney, The Langham, The Ritz-Carlton Perth, Crown Promenade and Crown Metropol in Melbourne. Dashback also holds national partnerships with car-rental operators Avis Budget and Europcar, and has earned five-star reviews from industry bodies including Les Clefs d'Or, the invitation-only international association of hotel concierges. "Some doors take longer to open than others," Andy said. "We spent three years talking to Meriton before going live across all 24 of their properties, and that patience is how this business has grown, one relationship at a time." "There's a hotel version of this story everywhere you look: a lost watch, a set of keys, a kid's toy that a whole family is losing sleep over," Andy said. "We built Dashback so hotels could hand that problem to us, and guests could get on with their day instead of chasing an item down themselves." Next up is New Zealand, where Dashback will launch with Pack and Send at the start of 2027, with plans to expand through Pack and Send's global network from there.