Software Engineer II

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. 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 Tripadvisor’s Hotels pages for over 400 million travelers each month. In 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 You’ll 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 team’s coding standards, best practices, and audit requirements.
• Support the team’s 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.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s 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 you’d 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.
• Generous referral scheme. Help us grow and be rewarded with generous bonuses for referring successful candidates. 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.

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 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 [email protected].

If you have any additional questions about careers at Tripadvisor you can email us at [email protected]. We have all the answers!

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