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 high-performing engineering teams that deliver high-quality, secure, and performant solutions. You are accountable for team leadership, delivery execution, and alignment with product objectives. You hire, mentor, and guide Data Engineers, ensuring 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 Data Engineers 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 Engineering 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
A pragmatic and solutions-oriented team leader with experience managing Data Engineering teams
Skilled in Agile development and confident facilitating team ceremonies
Have experience leading design reviews, and technical decision-making
Experience in SQL,Python, Spark, Big Data Technologies including Data warehousing, Data ingestion, Data lake
Cloud experience is required, preferably on GCP.
Familiarity with the following technologies is a plus: Kafka, BigQuery, BigTable, DataProc, GCS,, DataFlow, composer orchestration
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
#LI-Hybrid
Who we areOur 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 PricelinePriceline is following a hybrid working model, which includes two days onsite as determined by you and your manager (ideally selecting among Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday). On the remaining days, you can choose to be remote or in the office.
To be the best travel dealmakers in the world, we believe our team should reflect the broad range of customers and communities we serve. We are committed to cultivating a culture where all employees have the freedom to bring their individual perspectives, life experiences, and passion to work.
Priceline is a proud equal opportunity employer. We embrace and celebrate the unique lenses through which our employees see the world. We’d love for you to join us and help shape what makes our team extraordinary.
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What We Do
At Priceline, part of Booking Holdings, Inc. [NASDAQ: BKNG], we believe every trip is a big deal to our customers. Whether it’s a much-needed getaway, wedding, reunion, graduation, or rooting on a favorite team—those are the moments that nobody should miss out on.
Our mission? Be the best travel dealmakers in the world. We provide our customers with smart and easy ways to access the very best deals available on hotel rooms, flights, rental cars, vacation packages and cruises, so they can be there for the moments that matter the most to them.
We do that by welcoming people who are at the top of their game, who want to learn and grow with others and who take their work seriously (but not themselves). We’re building a diverse and uniquely talented team to make sure our customers can be there for all those {big deal} moments. Come join us!
