Hybrid Java Software Engineer Java Software Engineer with verification

TripAdvisor, Inc. is an American online travel company that operates a website and mobile app with user-generated content and a comparison shopping website. It also offers online hotel reservations and bookings for transportation, lodging, travel experiences, and restaurants. Travellers across the globe use the Tripadvisor site and app to discover where to stay, what to do and where to eat based on guidance from those who have been there before. Their workplace is for everyone, as is their people powered platform. Tripadvisor is seeking people that bring their unique identities, abilities, and experiences, so they can collectively revolutionize travel and together find the good out there.

Full stack engineering on their SEO (search engine optimization) team means integral participation in their web framework development, iterative testing, analytics, monitoring and data science on their comprehensive datasets. Their SEO team has developed a data/test driven approach to understanding how they interact with search engines, users and the many complex interactions between them. SEO is no longer just page-rank, it’s evolved into a highly competitive landscape including both user experience metrics as well as site content and structure. You will be working with some of the best SEO practitioners in the space utilizing extensive PB sized datasets to understand what is working and how it works. Curiosity and a willingness to dig deeply into both their success and failures and those of their competitors is key to being successful.

Day to day work as a senior software engineer on the team will have you collaborating across the company on some of the highest profile projects on Tripadvisor, and you will provide technical leadership across your team and across the engineering organization as a whole. As an SEO engineer, you will be challenged to solve new problems every day, touching code on many different Tripadvisor surfaces. Tripadvisor doesn’t have centralized architects, with engineers of all levels having the opportunity to design solutions and solicit feedback from their peers. You will also help their team of SEO analysts explore the large datasets using both inhouse tools and off-the-shelf analytics software. Their team has the distinction of both ensuring users continue to find Tripadvisor in organic search through planning their trip, and ensuring they have a great site experience once they've landed.

What you will do:

Take on projects with independence and a mandate to leave things better than you found them.

Participate in the planning and initial steps for key changes on the site

Be pragmatic when solving problems with a deep understanding of the purpose and goal of your work.

Touch code at all levels, front end to back end, data analysis whatever is required to complete your project.

Be integral for the code quality on your team through leadership in design and code review.

Be a mentor for others on the team.

Help bring the team's technical knowledge and solutions to the engineering organization via tech talks and design reviews.

Skills and Experience:

5+ years of experience as a professional engineer.

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent

Prior experience on executing self driven projects successfully

Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, and OO design

Some exposure to the following technologies a plus: Java, HTML5, JavaScript, React, GraphQL, DustJS, CSS, SQL, Postgres, Linux, Python, Gradle, Apache Tomcat, BERT, Hive, Spark

Nice to haves:

Passionate about solving business problems, perhaps you come from an entrepreneurial background

Experience working with and processing large quantities of data