Our overall business 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 reach 455 million unique visitors each month in 49 countries, and we are looking for someone who gets excited by working at this scale.

You will be leading a wide range of project work, from integrating with vacation rental management platforms, building APIs for third party suppliers to integrate their inventory into TripAdvisor, working on a PCI compliant payment platform, to delivering rich content and user experience to our travelers researching vacation rentals for their next vacation. In short, your work will encompass the key areas of execution for the Vacation Rentals business.

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? Are you above all else passionate about success?

What You Will Bring to the Team

• You have a BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent
• You have spent at least 1 year managing a team or 3 years leading a team
• You have some hands-on knowledge of Linux, Java, JavaScript and related open source technologies such as Apache, Tomcat, PostgreSQL, and Hadoop
• You show a sense of ownership and pride in your role as a leader, and you can make us believe you’ll excel
• You have consistently exceeded expectations throughout your career, and you can describe specific activities and projects that demonstrate this behavior
• You can manage a team towards long-term goals while delivering new capability daily
• You have the ability to work with everyone from engineers to product owners to C-level executives to help communicate, prioritize, influence and inform key product decisions
• You have successfully hired and built teams including interviewing, on-boarding, and mentoring (either at a small or large company)
• You find the live operations of your team’s code fulfilling and worth getting right
• Startup experience is a definite plus

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