Tripadvisor - Back-end Software Engineer
Requirements
• Proficient in Java and modern back-end architectures • Comfortable communicating in English (our working language) • Comfortable working across the stack • Background in travel, e-commerce, or marketplace platforms
Responsibilities
• Build for real operators. Build software used by thousands of tour and activity businesses around the world — what you ship gets used, fast. • Build for real operators. • Write code, daily. This is a hands-on engineering role. You'll spend most of your time building, not in meetings. • Write code, daily. • Work end-to-end. Collaborate with product, design, and front-end to take features from idea to production. • Work end-to-end. • Improve the foundations. Refactor, modernise, and pay down technical debt in a mature codebase that's earned its complexity honestly. • Improve the foundations. • Shape the platform. Contribute to architectural decisions and help guide where our back-end goes next. • Shape the platform. • Collaborate with the best. Join a team of skilled engineers where you'll brainstorm, refine ideas, and learn from people who care about their craft. • Collaborate with the best. • Our stack • Frontend • TanStack Query & Router • Next.js (booking management UI) • React Native (operator app) • Backend • Don't worry if you're not familiar with every technology — we're committed to helping you learn and grow! • Working with AI • Working with AI • Every engineer at Bókun has access to Claude Code and other leading AI coding assistants, and we actively use them as part of day-to-day development. We've invested in this seriously — both in tools and in the time to figure out how they fit into our workflows. If working somewhere that takes AI engineering seriously matters to you, you'll feel at home here.
Benefits
• Competitive Compensation: Attractive salary and performance-based bonuses • Work-Life Balance: Flexible working hours and remote work options • Work-Life Balance: • Career Growth: Continuous learning opportunities and clear paths for advancement • Career Growth: • Global Impact: Your work will be used by millions of travelers and businesses worldwide • Global Impact: • Innovative Environment: Be part of a team that's pushing the boundaries of travel tech • Innovative Environment: • 🏢 Nice office in central Reykjavík • 🍽️ Delicious daily lunch provided • ☕ Top-notch coffee and snacks to fuel your creativity • 🚗 Convenient indoor car parking • 🏋️ On-site gym with a hot tub (World Class) • 🎉 Regular team events and activities • Application process • Application process • Initial call (30 minutes): Connect with our recruiter to learn more about the role and share your background. • Initial call (30 minutes): • Technical screening (45 minutes): Interview to assess your technical expertise, provide insight into our work, and gauge your interest in advancing further. • Technical screening (45 minutes): • Coding assignment: Solve a simple coding assignment at your own pace. • Coding assignment: • On-site interviews (around 3 hours total): Meet the team, tour the office, and engage in technical discussions, job-relevant coding exercises, and cultural fit conversations with team members. • On-site interviews (around 3 hours total): • Ready to Shape the Future of Travel? • If you're excited about creating innovative solutions that impact millions of travelers and businesses globally, we want to hear from you! • 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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