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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