Software Engineer II - Data Platform

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.

About The Team

At Tripadvisor, we host 400 million monthly active visitors, and assist them to explore the world, and up-level their travel. Tripadvisor also has a culture of "test and learn" to encourage finding new ways to better serve travelers. We are responsible for providing software that enables Tripadvisor to better understand visitor preferences in order to enable tailoring our site, app and product offerings to assist them in having more delightful travel experiences. We are also responsible for the software system that empowers Product Managers, General Managers, and Engineering to experiment and test out new innovative ideas across all Tripadvisor surfaces including the website, mobile app, and customer communications in email.  These experiments in turn drive millions of dollars of revenue annually.

Job Location: Hybrid

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

What You’ll Do

Tripadvisor is looking for a Software Engineer II to take this exciting opportunity to join our fast-moving tracking and experimentation group. In this role, you will help us build, upgrade, and sustain successful tracking and experimentation infrastructure to serve the world’s largest and most trusted travel site, visited by over 500 million travelers each month, and the world’s leading travel brands, from large OTAs to independent boutique chains. 

Do you like building features end to end? Do you like working with a large number of technologies? Do you like moving quickly, releasing features daily, and working with other smart and talented engineers? If this sounds like you, we’d love to talk to you. 

• Take on projects with independence and a mandate to leave things better than you found them.
• Participate in the planning and initial steps for key changes on the site.
• Be pragmatic when solving problems with a deep understanding of the purpose and goal of your work.
• Touch code at all levels, from client ingestion to data storage, data analysis whatever is required to complete your project. Take responsibility for all aspects of software engineering, from design to implementation, QA, and maintenance.
• Have a CI/CD mindset. Most of our engineers release code to production every few days and we have a daily release cycle.
• Be integral for the code quality on your team through leadership in design and code review. Take responsibility for the quality of the code produced by you and the team
• Operate across our evolving technology stack - we’re developing in Java, React, SQL, and more.
• Collaborate closely with Product and design teams to define feature specifications and develop high quality deliverables for our stakeholders.
• Work alongside other engineering groups located around the world. 

Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of experience in commercial software development
• A strong history of development with Java.
• Some exposure to the following technologies a plus: HTML5, JavaScript, React, GraphQL, CSS, SQL, Postgres, Linux, Python, Gradle, Apache Tomcat, BERT, Hive, Spark
• Familiarity with Linux.
• Familiarity with designing infrastructure on AWS or other cloud providers.
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent
• Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, and OO design. 
• Willingness and ability to take on new technologies.
• Ability to break down complex problems into simple solutions.
• Strong analytical skills and desire to write clean, correct, and efficient code.
• Sense of ownership, urgency, and pride in your work.
• Exposure to developing scalable code for high-volume systems is a plus.
• Having a data mindset along with Software Engineering expertise. Also, have worked on designing infrastructures that deal with the processing of large data sets.
• Experience working with and processing large quantities of data - Hive, Snowflake, NoSQL databases (desired). 

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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