Driven to be the Best
People. Performance. Purpose.
At Avis Budget Group, we’re driven to be the best vehicle rental company in the world, together. Our 25,000 employees raise the bar every day, bringing different perspectives, taking ownership, and leading with integrity. We’re defining the future of mobility with safe, sustainable solutions that move people, businesses, and communities forward.
Avis Budget Group is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead the design, development, modernization, and delivery of highly scalable technology solutions across our digital and core rental platforms.
This role combines hands-on technical leadership, engineering management, Java/microservices expertise, and mainframe modernization. The ideal candidate will be comfortable operating across modern cloud-native architectures and established mainframe ecosystems, helping engineering teams evolve legacy capabilities into resilient, API-driven microservices.
You will lead a team of engineers, work closely with architects and product leaders, and establish engineering practices that improve scalability, reliability, security, and speed of delivery.
What You’ll Do:
Engineering Leadership
Lead and mentor a team of Java engineers, senior developers, and technical leads, fostering a high-performing engineering culture.
Own engineering execution across multiple applications, services, and technology initiatives.
Partner with Product, Architecture, DevOps, QA, Security, and other technology teams to define and deliver business-critical capabilities.
Establish engineering standards around code quality, architecture, testing, observability, security, and performance.
Provide technical direction while remaining sufficiently hands-on to guide complex engineering decisions and troubleshoot critical issues.
Drive Agile engineering practices, continuous improvement, and effective delivery across distributed teams.
Coach engineers and technical leads through architecture, design, code reviews, and career development.
Java & Microservices Architecture
Lead the design and development of Java-based, cloud-ready microservices using technologies such as Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, REST APIs, and event-driven architectures.
Define and promote scalable, resilient, loosely coupled service architectures.
Establish API-first development practices, including API design, versioning, security, documentation, and lifecycle management.
Drive modernization of monolithic applications into domain-oriented microservices where appropriate.
Design solutions using asynchronous messaging, event streaming, and distributed processing patterns.
Ensure services meet enterprise requirements for availability, scalability, performance, resiliency, and security.
Promote containerization and cloud-native engineering practices using technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
Establish effective observability using centralized logging, metrics, distributed tracing, alerting, and application performance monitoring.
Mainframe & Legacy Modernization
Lead engineering initiatives that integrate mainframe applications and systems of record with modern Java and microservices platforms.
Work with mainframe teams to understand COBOL, CICS, DB2, batch processing, and existing enterprise interfaces.
Define modernization strategies that expose appropriate mainframe capabilities through APIs and modern integration patterns.
Identify opportunities to decouple legacy functionality and incrementally migrate capabilities to Java/microservices architectures.
Design reliable integration between mainframe systems and modern distributed applications.
Balance modernization objectives with the stability, performance, and operational requirements of mission-critical legacy platforms.
Help establish patterns for strangler-architecture modernization, service extraction, API enablement, and phased migration.
Cloud, DevOps & Engineering Excellence
Partner with DevOps and Cloud Engineering teams to implement…