Java Software Engineer

We believe that we are better together, and at Tripadvisor we welcome you for who you are. Our workplace is for everyone, as is our people powered platform. At Tripadvisor, we want you to bring your unique perspective and experiences, so we can collectively revolutionize travel and together find the good out there.

The Places team mission is to build the world's best engine for managing location data. We are enhancing data collection on the main site and our mobile apps, building a data processing pipeline, integrating with third-party vendors, and leveraging machine learning, all to curate location data valuable to TripAdvisor users and our partners.

As a Java Software Engineer, you will independently develop features in support of our products across all layers of the stack. You will be responsible for designing relational databases, microservices, APIs, and interactive user interfaces. Through your work you will grow expertise in one or more technologies and share your learnings with your team. You will be responsible for testing the software you write and will maintain your features once released. As a Software Engineer II, you will actively provide code reviews to your peers, ensuring that team standards and best practices are adhered to. Similarly, you will actively seek feedback from your peers and promote a collaborative and fast-paced engineering culture.

What you'll do:

Code! Most of our engineer’s release code to production every few days and we have a daily release cycle.

Design and implement the technical solutions for projects

Work closely with our product and design teams to define feature specifications

Be responsible for the quality of code you ship

Actively provide feedback on best practices and design patterns to your peers in the form of code reviews

Develop, deploy and maintain full stack implementations of owner and consumer-facing features

Be responsible for all aspects of software engineering, from design to implementation, QA, operations and maintenance.

Work alongside other engineering groups located around the world - US East Coast, UK, Central and Eastern Europe.

Skills and Experience:

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or equivalent

4+ years of large scale, full life cycle development experience

Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, and OO design

Experience building microservices, event-driven and domain-oriented architectures

Experience with full stack web development in JavaScript and Java. The team develops with JavaScript/React, Java, Tomcat, Linux, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka

Cloud Platform experience (AWS) desired

Experience with data processing or ML modeling is a plus.

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