Software Engineer II

About us

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. The subsidiaries of Tripadvisor, Inc. (Nasdaq: TRIP), include a portfolio of travel brands and businesses, including Tripadvisor, Viator, and TheFork.

Partner Platform is responsible for building a suite of B2B products that serves restaurant owners and hoteliers alike, and enables them to market their businesses online. We are looking for a full-stack software engineer who can help to build the next generation platform solutions that power our product suite. As a self-starting and results-driven engineer, you will partner with technology leaders and product managers throughout the company to design and build highly performant solutions.

 As a Software Engineer II, you will independently develop features in support of our products across all layers of the stack. You will be responsible for designing relational databases, microservices, APIs, and interactive user interfaces. Through your work you will grow expertise in one or more technologies and share your learnings with your team. You will be responsible for testing the software you write and will maintain your features once released. As a Software Engineer II, you will actively provide code reviews to your peers, ensuring that team standards and best practices are adhered to. Similarly, you will actively seek feedback from your peers and promote a collaborative and fast-paced engineering culture.

 What you'll do:

• Code! Most of our engineers release code to production every few days and we have a daily release cycle.

• Design and implement the technical solutions for projects

• Work closely with our product and design teams to define feature specifications

• Be responsible for the quality of code you ship

• Actively provide feedback on best practices and design patterns to your peers in the form of code reviews

• Develop, deploy and maintain full stack implementations of owner and consumer-facing features

• Be responsible for all aspects of software engineering, from design to implementation, QA, operations and maintenance.

• Work alongside other engineering groups located around the world.

 Skills & Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or equivalent

• 3+ years of large scale, full life cycle development experience

• Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, and OO design

• Experience building microservices, event-driven and domain-oriented architectures

• Experience with full stack web development in JavaScript and Java. The team develops with JavaScript/React, Java, GraphQL, Linux, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka 

• Willingness and ability to take on new technologies

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Sense of ownership, urgency and pride in your work

• Cloud Platform experience (AWS) desired.

Why Join Tripadvisor

• 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, with the option to join on-site as often as you’d like in select locations. 

• Flexible schedule. Work-life balance is ingrained in our culture by design. Trust and accountability make it work.

• Donation matching. Give back? Give more! We match qualifying charitable donations annually.

• Tuition assistance. Want to level up your career? We love to hear it! Receive annual support for qualified programs.

• Lifestyle benefit. An annual benefit to spend on yourself. Use it on travel, wellness, or whatever suits you.

• Travel perks. We believe that travel is employee development, so we provide discounts and more.

• Employee assistance program. We’re here for you with resources and programs to help you through life’s challenges.

• Health benefits. We offer great coverage and competitive premiums.

• Generous referral scheme. Help us grow and be rewarded with generous awards for referring successful candidates.

Our Cultural Pillars:

• Traveller first: We exist to create value for our customer, the traveler. We enable our suppliers and partners to unlock this value. Their collective behaviors and insights are what drives us. 

• Execution is our edge: We act fast, experiment, learn from failure, iterate, and improve the solutions of tomorrow across every aspect of our business. Our execution is agile, data-driven, prioritised, and built to scale. We assume no problem is someone else’s problem and finish what can be done today, knowing tomorrow will bring fresh challenges. 

• We succeed together: The best outcomes are driven by empathic, humble, and diverse subject matter experts working toward shared goals. We collaborate relentlessly, challenge assumptions, give actionable feedback, and set each other up for success through empowered teams with a clear charter. We transparently take ownership of our growth, individually and as a team. We celebrate the quality of our effort, our learnings, and our collective achievements.

We strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all candidates. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please make sure to reach out to your individual recruiter or our team at AccessibleRecruiting@tripadvisor.com.

If you have any additional questions about careers at Tripadvisor you can email us at recruitment@tripadvisor.com. We have all the answers!

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