About Tripadvisor
The Tripadvisor Group connects people to experiences worth sharing, and aims to be the world’s most trusted source for travel and experiences. We leverage our brands, technology, and capabilities to connect our global audience with partners through rich content, travel guidance, and two-sided marketplaces for experiences, accommodations, restaurants, and other travel categories.
Tripadvisor Experiences Engineering
This is the team that builds and supports the world's leading marketplace for travel experiences. We believe that making memories is what travel is all about.
About the Role
We are looking for a product-focused Senior Software Engineer to join our Experiences Engineering team. This is a full-stack role, leveraging Java, SQL, React, AWS and AI tools. It suits "T-shaped" engineers who thrive on autonomy and technical leadership. You’ll build and maintain highly scalable distributed systems that power travel experiences for millions of users globally. We embrace a remote-first working model with periodic in-person gatherings.
What You’ll Do
- Lead Technical Design: Own features end-to-end, leading the design and implementation of highly visible features while balancing security, privacy, and performance.
- Translate Strategy to Action: Work with Product and Data partners to turn high-level business goals into clear technical specifications, often serving as the technical lead for multi-quarter initiatives.
- Elevate the Team: Set the bar for code quality, lead the adoption of review standards, and mentor junior and mid-level engineers.
- Master Agentic AI: Use AI tools as a strategic partner to plan approaches, decompose ambiguous work, and establish new standards for monitoring and reliability.
- Architect for Resilience: Define the operational strategy and design highly fault-tolerant architectures, proactively identifying structural risks and setting the team-wide standards for automation, monitoring, and long-term stability.
- Optimize Systems: Actively look for opportunities to simplify, consolidate, or retire legacy code to reduce complexity and increase team velocity.
Our Cultural Pillars
- Traveller first: We exist to create value for our customer, the traveler.
- Execution is our edge: We act fast, experiment, learn from failure, iterate, and improve the solutions of tomorrow.
- We succeed together: The best outcomes are driven by empathic, humble, and diverse subject matter experts working toward shared goals.
Discover more in our Tech Blog.
What We Offer
- Competitive compensation packages, including base salary, annual bonus, and more.
- “Work your way” with flexibility to suit your lifestyle. We take a remote-friendly approach to collaboration.
- Flexible schedule. Work-life balance is ingrained in our culture by design.
- Donation matching. We match qualifying charitable donations annually.
- Tuition assistance. Receive annual support for qualified programs.
- Lifestyle benefit. An annual benefit to spend on yourself.
- Travel perks. We provide discounts and more.
- Employee assistance program.
- Health benefits. We offer great coverage and competitive premiums.
- Generous referral scheme.
Skills & Experience
We typically look for 5+ years’ experience, following a Bachelor’s degree or above in Comp Science or a related field.
- Distributed Systems Expertise: Deep understanding of concurrent programming and experience building high-performance, scalable backend systems in cloud environments.
- Analytical Mindset: A habit of asking "how will we know this worked?" and using operational data or experiment results to validate every significant technical decision.
- Full-Stack Proficiency: Strong experience in at least one modern backend language (e.g., Java, C#, Go, Python) and familiarity with modern front-end frameworks.
- AI Coding: you are fluent coding with either Cursor or Codex/Claude/Open Code.
- Navigating Ambiguity: Comfortable making rational tradeoffs between non-functional requirements and delivery speed in an evolving environment.
- Collaborative Leadership: Proven ability to build relationships across disciplines and communicate technical trade-offs to non-technical partners.
We’d love to see experience with NoSQL databases, GraphQL, Kafka, or containerization (Docker/Kubernetes). Experience building tools or abstractions that provide leverage to an entire engineering team is also a significant plus. You need to be open to working within the Java ecosystem when you join!
