Tripadvisor - Software Engineer II - Backend Focus
Requirements
• world's leading marketplace for travel experiences • We’re looking for a product-focused Software Engineer II to join our fast-growing Experiences Engineering team. This is a full-stack role, leveraging Java, SQL, React, AWS and AI tools. It’s ideal for mid-level engineers who enjoy solving complex problems, shipping frequently, and working in a modern cloud environment. You’ll play a key role in building high-impact features that power millions of traveler experiences globally. • product-focused Software Engineer II • Java, SQL, React, AWS and AI tools • We embrace flexibility in where and how work gets done and also value meaningful in-person moments to connect and collaborate. You can expect a remote-first working model with periodic in-person gatherings at your closest office for team connection, planning, or other key moments. This position is open to candidates based within a commutable distance (generally up to 1.5 hours) of one of our office hubs in London, Oxford, Krakow or Lisbon. • remote-first working model • London, Oxford, Krakow or Lisbon. • We typically look for a minimum of 2-3 years’ experience, following a Bachelor’s degree or above in Comp Science or a related field. • Full-Stack Mindset: Experience developing web apps, including proficiency in a modern backend language (e.g., Java, C#, Go, Python) and familiarity with relational databases. • Full-Stack Mindset: • Problem Solving: A strong grasp of computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms) and the ability to apply them to real-world distributed systems. • Problem Solving: • Data-Driven: A habit of using operational data and experiment results to validate that your changes had the intended effect. • Data-Driven: • AI Coding: you are fluent coding with either Cursor or Codex/Claude/Open Code. • AI Coding: • Global Mindset: Ability to operate effectively within a global team, communicating clearly about progress and blockers. • Global Mindset: • We don’t expect you to know everything on day one. However, we’re especially interested if you’ve had exposure to AWS, React, or NoSQL databases. More than any specific tool, we value curiosity and the ability to solve problems creatively. • We value engineers from different technical backgrounds. You can complete our coding interview exercises in any language of your choice, but need to be open to working within the Java ecosystem when you join! • coding interview exercises
Responsibilities
• Drive Impact: Connect your engineering work directly to traveler value by owning features from design to deployment. • Drive Impact: • Shape the Product: Partner with product, design, and data teams to influence what we build, helping to define specifications and find the most efficient path to success. • Shape the Product: • Collaborate & Mentor: Review code, provide thoughtful feedback, and coach less experienced engineers to maintain a high bar for quality. • Collaborate & Mentor: • Innovate with AI: Use agentic AI as a daily partner to plan approaches, automate routine tasks, and focus your energy on solving more complex technical challenges. • Innovate with AI: • Champion Operational Health: Take hands-on ownership of system reliability by building monitoring dashboards, managing alerts and support cases, and fixing underlying bugs to continuously improve service resilience and eliminate operational toil. • Champion Operational Health: • Build for Quality: Design and implement clean, maintainable solutions with a focus on performance, security, and automated testing. • Build for Quality:
Benefits
• 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. • 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. • 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 else’s problem and finish what can be done today, knowing tomorrow will bring fresh challenges. • We succeed together • 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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