Senior Software Engineer

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 The Fork.

Tripadvisor Experiences Engineering is the team that builds and supports the world's leading marketplace for travel experiences. We believe that making memories is what travel is all about. And with 400,000+ travel experiences to explore—everything from simple tours to extreme adventures (and everything in between) —making memories that will last a lifetime has never been easier.

About the Role We are looking for a product-focused Senior Software Engineer to join our Experiences Engineering team. This is a full-stack role, leveraging Java, SQL, React, AWS and AI tools. It suits "T-shaped" engineers who thrive on autonomy and technical leadership. You’ll build and maintain highly scalable distributed systems that power travel experiences for millions of users globally.

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.

What You’ll Do Lead Technical Design:
Own features end-to-end, leading the design and implementation of highly visible features while balancing security, privacy, and performance.

Translate Strategy to Action:
Work with Product and Data partners to turn high-level business goals into clear technical specifications, often serving as the technical lead for multi-quarter initiatives.

Elevate the Team:
Set the bar for code quality, lead the adoption of review standards, and mentor junior and mid-level engineers.

Master Agentic AI:
Use AI tools as a strategic partner to plan approaches, decompose ambiguous work, and establish new standards for monitoring and reliability.

Architect for Resilience:
Define the operational strategy and design highly fault-tolerant architectures, proactively identifying structural risks and setting the team-wide standards for automation, monitoring, and long-term stability.

Optimize Systems:
Actively look for opportunities to simplify, consolidate, or retire legacy code to reduce complexity and increase team velocity.

Skills & Experience We typically look for 5+ years’ experience, following a Bachelor’s degree or above in Comp Science or a related field.

Distributed Systems Expertise:
Deep understanding of concurrent programming and experience building high-performance, scalable backend systems in cloud environments.

Analytical Mindset: A habit of asking "how will we know this worked?" and using operational data or experiment results to validate every significant technical decision.

Full-Stack Proficiency:
Strong experience in at least one modern backend language (e.g., Java, C#, Go, Python) and familiarity with modern front-end frameworks.

AI Coding: you are fluent coding with either Cursor or Codex/Claude/Open Code. Navigating Ambiguity:
Comfortable making rational tradeoffs between non-functional requirements and delivery speed in an evolving environment.

Collaborative Leadership:
Proven ability to build relationships across disciplines and communicate technical trade-offs to non-technical partners.

We’d love to see experience with No

SQL databases, GraphQL, Kafka, or containerization (Docker/Kubernetes). Experience building tools or abstractions that provide leverage to an entire engineering team is also a significant plus. We don’t expect you to know everything on day one. More than any specific tool, we value curiosity and the ability…