Drimva

Expedia

Senior Technical Lead, Marketing Technology & AI

$172K–$295K

Austin Domain 11 - HomeAway +2 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 9, 2026

Location
Austin Domain 11 - HomeAway
USA - Illinois - Chicago
Washington - Seattle Campus
Experience
8+ years. Also requires experience in a senior technical individual contributor or equivalent role; no duration specified.
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience.

About the job

Leads hands-on development and scaling of software, data, automation, machine learning, and AI capabilities for partner-facing digital marketing operations.

What you'll do

  • Lead technical discovery, architecture, prototyping, and delivery of software, data, ML, and generative AI solutions.
  • Build production services, APIs, data pipelines, workflow automation, and AI-enabled applications for marketing execution, personalization, activation, and measurement.
  • Guide cross-functional delivery, establish reusable technical practices, and mentor engineers.

What they ask for

  • 8+ years building and delivering production software, data, machine learning, or AI-enabled systems.
  • Proficiency in at least one programming language, such as Python, Java, Kotlin, TypeScript, or Go.
  • Experience designing APIs, distributed systems, cloud services, data pipelines, and event-driven architectures; hands-on experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, experimentation, measurement, or ML/AI systems.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience.

Nice to have

  • Experience with marketing technology, customer data, digital experience, campaign management, CRM, advertising, personalization, or lifecycle marketing.
  • Experience with cloud platforms, containers, CI/CD, observability, infrastructure-as-code, or technologies such as Spark, Snowflake, Databricks, Kafka, Airflow, and dbt.

Pay

$184,500.00 to $258,000.00 USD total cash (Austin); up to $295,000.00 USD total cash (Austin); $171,500.00 to $240,000.00 USD total cash (Chicago); up to $274,500.00 USD total cash (Chicago); $184,500.00 to $258,000.00 USD total cash (Seattle); up to $295,000.00 USD total cash (Seattle)

Tools

Python, Java, Kotlin, TypeScript, Go, Spark, Snowflake, Databricks

AI focus

Build and deploy ML and generative AI solutions, including LLM applications, RAG, agents, intelligent assistants, workflow automation, tool calling, model evaluation, and human-in-the-loop controls.

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First seen Oct 28, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)