EMPLOYER NAME: TripAdvisor, LLC

POSITION:  Senior Software Engineer

WORKSITE: 400 First Avenue, Needham, MA 02494

POSITION DESCRIPTION: Serves as a critical part of a software development organization to lead a team of developers responsible for delivering large projects critical to the growth of the business; oversees all technical aspects of the development team; participates in code reviews, architecture discussions, spec reviews, task decomposition, LOE estimation, risk management, and deployment and provides excellent judgement and technical insight; ensures that team of developers adhere to company development standards; manages the development queue; responsible for all phases of the SDLC; partners with all project stakeholders to understand business needs as they relate to technical capabilities to create best-in-class traveler experience by delivering software solutions and features that are highly functional and intuitive for application users; maintains awareness of teams data environment, including database tables, ETLs, logging, key metrics, monitoring, and configuration; considers operational concerns during the design phase, including phased rollouts, race conditions, security, resiliency, versioning, monitoring, alerting, resource usage, and other leaky abstractions; maintains an awareness of the company’s costs of doing business and integrates this awareness into designs, including capital expenses, operational expenses, network bandwidth, resource utilization, and long-term maintenance costs; writes clear, concise, and complete design documents to an appropriate level of detail; makes effective judgments about when to extend existing systems, build new software internally, buy third-party code, or use open source, including the licensing impacts of using code from outside of the company; proactively communicates project status, potential risks, and opportunities for improvements in areas of ownership; serves as a critical part of the development team to write, test and correct code for complex software applications; touches code at every level including design, coding, testing, and deployment of new components and functionalities; builds APIs to integrate with existing systems; reviews code of peer and junior engineers for quality assurance purposes and participates in the maintenance of code written by other engineers; collaborates closely with product and design teams to adjust existing feature specifications to adapt evolving market needs; reviews and retrieves data regarding application performance to fine tune development projects and maximize functionality; understands critical underlying implementation details of JavaScript and Java including JVM and Bytecode; leverages and enhances existing company tools and infrastructure; design with large-scale systems issues in mind, including network topology, idempotency, cache coherence, resource constraints, and polling.

REQUIREMENTS: The position requires a Master’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field plus one (1) year of post-baccalaureate work experience. The position also requires demonstrable experience with each of the following: using Java, JavaScript and SQL; large scale, full life cycle development; data structures, algorithms, software architectural patterns, and relational databases; definition, implementation, and rollout of significant architectural changes on high volume websites; API design (GraphQL and/or Rest); analyzing and improving site performance and resource utilization across the full stack; managing a software development team in a high performance environment; all areas of the software development life cycle (SDLC); participating on cross-functional engineering teams; integrating systems using APIs; HTML, CSS, SQL and JavaScript; Linux; more sophisticated data structures and algorithms, and the problem spaces in which they provide benefit and an ability to incorporate them effectively into designs.

Job #: 10173.585

TO APPLY:          Please Mail resume to: TripAdvisor Recruiting, 400 1st Ave, Needham, MA 02494 referencing 10173.585. EOE.