World Travel Holdings
World Travel Holdings
World Travel Holdings connects customers with a broad range of vacation options, including cruises, resort stays, and car rentals. Through partnerships across the leisure travel market, the company supports people interested in building travel businesses, including franchise opportunities that can be operated from home. Its work centers on making travel planning more accessible while helping independent travel professionals serve customers with tailored vacation arrangements.

Software Engineering Manager, Remote - United States

Lead engineering teams at World Travel Holdings as they modernize customer-facing applications for a cruise and leisure travel company. Guide cloud, DevOps, reliability, and AI-assisted engineering initiatives.

Description

  • Lead, mentor, and develop software engineers as well as emerging technical and people leaders
  • Foster ownership, accountability, collaboration, curiosity, and continuous improvement across engineering teams
  • Ensure teams own application health, reliability, security, maintainability, and customer experience from end to end
  • Promote cross-training, knowledge exchange, experimentation, and ongoing skills development
  • Collaborate with Product Management, Architecture, Quality Engineering, DevOps, Delivery, Operations, and business stakeholders
  • Connect engineering priorities with business goals, customer outcomes, platform adoption, and delivered value
  • Direct strategic efforts to modernize legacy applications
  • Improve CI/CD, automation, observability, resilience, secure development, and cloud-native-compatible architecture
  • Advocate for AI-SDLC investments and expand responsible use of AI-assisted engineering practices
  • Oversee priorities, risks, dependencies, team capacity, and delivery commitments
  • Use delivery, operational, quality, and people-development data to inform decisions and drive continuous improvement

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience
  • At least 8 years of software engineering experience
  • Extensive experience leading engineering teams, developing technical and people leaders, and delivering organizational or platform transformation
  • A track record of coaching engineers, developing talent, and building high-performing teams
  • Ability to reinforce ownership, accountability, collaboration, learning, and effective delivery
  • Experience leading teams responsible for customer-facing web applications and supporting platforms through technical, organizational, or cultural change
  • Experience modernizing legacy applications and implementing contemporary architecture and engineering practices
  • Strong knowledge of software architecture, APIs and integrations, CI/CD, DevOps, application operations, and Agile delivery
  • Experience using AI-assisted software development tools or AI-enabled engineering workflows, with the ability to guide responsible adoption
  • Strong communication, coaching, stakeholder management, and change-leadership abilities
  • Preferred: experience with AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or cloud-native architecture patterns
  • Preferred: experience with platform engineering, containerization, observability, resilience engineering, or site reliability practices
  • Preferred: experience leading modernization where legacy applications and physical data center infrastructure are present
  • Preferred: experience creating adoption, enablement, governance, or measurement practices for AI-assisted engineering
  • Preferred: experience in travel, cruise, hospitality, e-commerce, or another customer-facing digital platform environment
  • Preferred: experience managing distributed or remote engineering teams

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Company-paid life and disability insurance
  • 401(k) with discretionary company matching
  • Paid time off and company holidays
  • Travel discounts and employee perks
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Professional development and learning opportunities

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