Senior Development Manager

This role is eligible for our hybrid work model: 2 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 a Dev Manager in the Product Operating Model (POM), your focus is on building and enabling a high-performing engineering team that deliver high-quality, secure, and performant solutions. In leading the Auth team, you will be responsible for a critical system that touches all aspects of Priceline’s business. You are accountable for team leadership, delivery execution, and alignment with product objectives. You hire, mentor, and guide developers, ensure engineering best practices are followed, and act as the critical connector between Product Managers, Architects, and Developers.

In this role you will get to:

1. Team Leadership & Development

• Hire, mentor, and coach developers to grow skills and careers

• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement

• Allocate team members effectively across initiatives to maximize delivery capacity

2. Delivery & Execution Management

• Oversee timelines, deliverables, and commitments to ensure on-time completion

• Facilitate daily standups, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives

• Identify and remove blockers, escalating issues where needed to maintain flow

3. Collaboration & Alignment

• Act as the key bridge between Product and Development teams, ensuring clear communication of priorities, requirements, and constraints

• Collaborate closely with Product Managers to balance business outcomes with technical feasibility

• Partner with Architects and Engineering Leads to ensure alignment on design, standards, and long-term maintainability

4. Quality, Security & Performance

• Ensure solutions meet defined quality, security, and performance standards as established by architecture teams

• Champion engineering best practices, including testing, CI/CD, and code reviews

• Promote a culture of building reliable, scalable, and secure systems
   

5. Continuous Improvement & Enablement

• Identify opportunities to improve team velocity, predictability, and morale

• Support adoption of the Product Operating Model practices, including persistent teams and quarterly outcome alignment

• Partner with enablement and ops teams on tooling, metrics, and automation to enhance delivery

Who you are:

• You are the team enabler and execution driver, ensuring engineering teams are set up for success, supported in their growth, and delivering against business outcomes

• You bridge product priorities with technical execution, ensuring clarity, alignment, and flow between Product Managers, Architects, and Developers

• You are also a guardian of quality and standards, making sure delivery is not only timely but also secure, performant, and sustainable

• Experience with full-stack development: web, mobile, and backend is ideal.

• A pragmatic and solutions-oriented team leader with experience managing software development teams

• You have experience running backend services with a high level of reliability

• Tech Stack: 

  • Required: Java/Kotlin, OAuth, CIAM experience,Node.js

  • Nice to have: Swift

• Skilled in Agile development and confident facilitating team ceremonies

• Passionate about building strong, accountable teams and enabling engineers to do their best work

• Able to balance technical excellence with delivery pressure in a fast-paced environment

• Comfortable using data to inform decisions and improve team performance

• Strong cross-functional collaborator with clear communication and follow-through

• 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

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Who we are

Our success as one of the biggest players in online travel is all thanks to our incredible, dedicated team of talented employees. Priceliners are focused on being the best travel deal makers in the world, motivated by our passion to help everyone experience the moments that matter most in their lives. Whether it’s a dream vacation, your cousin’s graduation, or your best friend’s wedding - we make travel affordable and accessible to our customers. 

Our culture is unique and inspiring (that’s what our employees tell us). We’re a grown-up, startup. We deliver the excitement of a new venture, without the struggles and chaos that can come with a business that hasn’t stabilized.  

We’re on the cutting edge of innovative technologies. We keep the customer at the center of all that we do. Our ability to meet their needs relies on the strength of a workforce as diverse as the customers we serve. We bring together employees from all walks of life and we are proud to provide the kind of inclusive environment that stimulates innovation, creativity and collaboration.

Priceline is part of the Booking Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: BKNG) family of companies, a highly profitable global online travel company with a market capitalization of over $80 billion. Our sister companies include Booking.com, BookingGo, Agoda, Kayak and OpenTable. 

If you want to be part of something truly special, check us out! 

Flexible work at Priceline

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