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.