About the company
The Tripadvisor Group connects people to experiences worth sharing, and aims to be the world’s most trusted source for travel and experiences. Tripadvisor Experiences Engineering is the team that builds and supports the world's leading marketplace for travel experiences.
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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- 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.
- Optimize Systems: Actively look for opportunities to simplify, consolidate, or retire legacy code.
Requirements
- 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 decisions.
- 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: fluent coding with either Cursor or Codex/Claude/Open Code.
- Navigating Ambiguity: Comfortable making rational tradeoffs between non-functional requirements and delivery speed.
- Collaborative Leadership: Proven ability to build relationships across disciplines and communicate technical trade-offs.
- Nice to have: experience with NoSQL databases, GraphQL, Kafka, or containerization (Docker/Kubernetes).
Conditions
- Competitive compensation packages, including base salary, annual bonus, and more.
- “Work your way” with flexibility to suit your lifestyle. Remote-friendly approach with option to join on-site.
- Flexible schedule. Work-life balance is ingrained in our culture.
- Donation matching, tuition assistance, lifestyle benefit, travel perks, employee assistance program, health benefits, generous referral scheme.