Engineering Manager

About Tripadvisor

The Tripadvisor Group connects people to experiences worth sharing and aims to be the worlds 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.

We are hiring an Engineering Manager for our fast-growing Tripadvisor Experiences org. Tripadvisor Experiences (Viator) is the worlds leading marketplace for travel experiences. We believe that making memories is what travel is all about. And with 400000 travel experiences to exploreeverything from simple tours to extreme adventures (and everything in between) making memories that will last a lifetime has never been easier.

As the new Engineering Manager youll lead our Experimentation team within the Experiences this role you will own the end-to-end experimentation platform that powers how Tripadvisor tests learns and ships. You will manage a team of talented engineers set technical direction and partner closely with product data science and analytics stakeholders to scale a best-in-class experimentation culture across Experiences. The ideal candidate brings a strong engineering background a track record of building reliable high-scale platforms and the leadership skills to grow a high-performing team in a fast-moving product environment.

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) from our Oxford office.

What Youll Do:

• Build and lead a high-performing technical team by hiring training and mentoring engineers of all levels.
• Foster a collaborative and innovative team culture and champion effective Agile development processes.
• Develop project plans timelines budgets and resource allocation strategies and ensure projects are delivered on time and within scope and budget.
• Show leadership as a hands-on developer in multiple layers of the software stack and data stack. Perform code and design reviews.
• Work closely with principal engineers to drive technology strategy and roadmap that aligns to the wider organisation vision.
• Work closely with your Product Manager counterpart and the business owner to prioritize product features along with the engineering-driven tasks striving for a good balance between business results and engineering robustness.
• Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders to ensure alignment on project goals commitments and timelines.
• Define and enforce engineering best practices to ensure deliverables are complete on time and meeting a high-quality standard.

What Youll Need:

• 10 years experience of commercial software development
• 3 years managing five to ten engineers across one or two teams
• Background of working in a product-focused company collaborating closely with stakeholders to build up a backlog of product and technical initiatives
• Directly responsible for giving performance feedback and providing formal career planning to their team
• Strong mentorship skills helping engineers to grow technically and professionally
• Solid understanding of the technologies and tools used by their team with hands-on experience of designing and building scalable high-performance systems
• Excellent ability to break down…