TripAdvisor, the market leader in travel research, is seeking a dynamic, passionate technical leader and effective people manager to join our team. Our product is the wildly successful travel website www.tripadvisor.com. Our website and mobile apps provide our users with a rich user experience to research, collaborate and contribute. We have big data with over 100 million reviews, opinions, photos and videos and growing. Over 1 billion unique visitors from around the globe visited TripAdvisor.

What You Will Do

The Senior Technical Manager will be responsible for building and leading a high powered team delivering cutting edge features seen by millions of people daily. You will have an impact on our product which generates hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue annually.

Can you enable highly-iterative agile development by breaking down complex projects into discrete tasks? Are you a leader that can mold bright young developers into seasoned veterans? Are you capable of hands-on development and digging into reports and logs when problems arise along with delegating and prioritizing the work needed across the team?
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What You Will Bring to the Team

• A sense of ownership and pride in your role as a leader.
• Ability to act strategically while still remaining focused tactically.
• Ability to work with everyone from product owners to C-level executives to help communicate, prioritize, influence and inform key product decisions.
• Successfully hire and build a high powered team including interviewing, on-boarding, and mentoring. 
• Experience developing multi-threaded, object oriented, high scale code powering full stack web applications.
• In-depth and hands on knowledge of Linux, Java, JavaScript and related open source technologies such as Apache, Tomcat, Postgres, Memcached and Hadoop. If not, be prepared to learn them all quickly… Very quickly.
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or similar degree.