Software Engineer II

About Tripadvisor

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.

Tripadvisor is looking for an experienced back-end software engineer to join the Hotels Platform team which maintains the critical infrastructure and data that powers Tripadvisors Hotels pages for over 400 million travelers each this role you will help us build enhance and sustain a suite of highly-performant consumer-scale microservices that help our travelers plan their next great adventure.
The ideal candidate for this role will have a broad set of battle-tested engineering skills a strong sense of ownership a passion for solving complex problems collaboratively and an unwavering commitment to learning and advancing their craft.

Job Location: Remote/Hybrid

This role is a flexible hybrid or remote position. For hybrid roles please note our office is based in Dublin.

What Youll Do

• Design implement test and deploy code changes that help the team execute on key strategic and engineering-driven initiatives.
• Work effectively across all layers of the service stack from designing clean microservice APIs to building efficient database queries and ETLs.
• Own projects end-to-end: from initial design requirements-vetting and estimation to verifying changes in production and proactively addressing any follow-up tasks.
• Provide code-reviews to teammates ensuring that a proposed change meets the teams coding standards best practices and audit requirements.
• Support the teams operations through proactive monitoring data-quality checks and incident-response protocols.
• Actively seek feedback from peers and help promote a collaborative fast-paced engineering culture.

Skills & Experience

• Demonstrated ability to use AI tools to improve efficiency quality and decision-making in day-to-day work.
• Bachelors or Masters Degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering or related discipline.
• 3 years of professional full-lifecycle software development experience working with large-scale web applications or services written in Java (preferred) or Kotlin.
• Experience working with relational databases or data-warehouse technologies like Snowflake BigQuery or Hadoop
• Solid foundation in data structures algorithms object-oriented design and web-service architectures.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills with the ability to communicate complex concepts clearly.
• Demonstrated ability to take end-to-end ownership of projects working independently and collaboratively to clarify requirements choose an appropriate implementation approach and deliver high-quality code.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience with front-end web technologies like React JavaScript HTML CSS etc.
• Experience working with foundational AWS services and infrastructure-as-code.
• Experience utilizing AI tools like Claude or Cursor effectively to streamline development workflows and reduce cognitive load.
• Experience participating in an operational support rotation.

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 benefit. An annual benefit to spend on yourself. Use it on travel wellness or whatever suits you.
• Generous referral scheme. Help us grow and be rewarded with generous bonuses for referring successful 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 benefits. We offer great coverage and competitive premiums.

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.

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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