Junior Software Engineer

The Tripadvisor Group connects people to experiences worth sharing and aims to be the worlds 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.

The Tripadvisor Experiences Engineering team is distributed across Europe and is responsible for the Tripadvisor Experiences mobile apps and all their supporting infrastructure. We run the systems that help operators build their businesses and those which enable third parties to utilise our inventory. We provide the tools which help our customer services team provide world class service to travellers and operators internationally.

About the Role

Were looking for a Software EngineerI to join our fast-growing team. Tripadvisor Experiences is a remote first company. This role is open to candidates based in Oxford in the UK. We embrace flexibility in where and how work gets done and also value meaningful in-person moments to connect and collaborate. You can expect periodic in-person gatherings for team connection planning or other key moments.

At Tripadvisor Experiences our Engineers are versatile and enjoy working on a variety of technical challenges. This is a full-stack position in which you will be working mostly on the backend with some front end projects from time to time. While you need to be hungry to learn you dont need to be an expert at front end development right away - we can teach that part on the job and you wont be tested on it in interviews.

Within Tripadvisor we have a fun and friendly environment where the key objective is getting things done. Working closely alongside product managers and designers our engineers are part of the full process from software design to code to test to deployment and back again. Most of our engineers release code to production every few days and we have a daily release cycle.

What Youll do

Tripadvisors web stack includes Java React TypeScript GraphQL Kubernetes SQL and NoSQL databases and runs on AWS. You dont need experience with everything listed but you must be eager to learn. You should have experience with a statically typed object-oriented language such as Java C# or C and hold a bachelors or masters degree in Computer Science or a related field.

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation packages (routinely benchmarked against the latest industry data) including base salary and annual bonuses
• Work your way with flexibility to suit your lifestyle. Tripadvisor Group takes a remote-friendly approach to collaboration across a worldwide team with the option to join on-site as often as youd like or as required by your team.
• 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. Were here for you with resources and programs to help you through lifes 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:

Traveler 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 elses 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

Application process

• 30 minute call with a recruiter to learn more about the role
• 1 hour technical coding interview with someone from the Tripadvisor experiences Engineering team
• Three one-hour interviews with members of the team covering technical topics - including some coding - and what you would bring to Tripadvisor experiences.

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

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