Principal Software Engineer, Experiences Supply

If you’re looking to build new systems, thrive in a fast-paced environment, and are eager to join a team that’s building tools for a billion-dollar market, we’d love to hear from you!

TripAdvisor continues to grow its Experiences Engineering team and is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to contribute to our Supply Platform’s architecture and development. We are in the process of transforming our Supply Platform to align with our new CTO’s vision, and there are plenty of interesting problems of scale and simplicity to solve, to build the foundation for the Experiences business for the next decade. 

TripAdvisor provides a unique, global work environment that captures the speed, innovation and excitement of a startup, at a thriving, growing and well-established industry brand.

Job Description

As the newest technical leader on the Experiences Supply team, you will:

• Collaborate with other Principal Engineers to make strategic technology decisions and refine our platform philosophy

• Partner with Product and Engineering leaders on other teams to understand business needs and use that to inform platform evolution initiatives

• Provide technical leadership for major projects that you design and help implement

• Drive innovation, generate and promote new ideas, and solve complex problems in innovative ways 

• Touch code at every level - from the UI, to the backend services, to the database

• Be a champion for quality code and designs

• Help shape the development culture on the team

• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent

• 10 years of software development experience

• Proven technical leadership solving complex problems 

• Solid understanding of Java and object-oriented architectures

• Solid understanding of micro-service architectures and the challenges of operating at large scale

• Solid experience in developing code for low-latency, high-volume systems

• The successful candidate will communicate proactively and well, be committed to delivering quality work on an aggressive schedule, be able to function independently as well as part of a team of equally-capable technical leaders, and partner effectively with both technical and non-technical employees

• You must be able to document code faithfully and take good coding practices seriously

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