Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Tripadvisor's Ontology & Metadata Engineering team as a Software Engineer to build, improve, maintain, and operate systems for delivering relevant content to users.

Requirements

• 5+ years of large scale, full life-cycle development experience
• Hands-On AWS Experience: Proven operational experience with AWS, including practical skills in deploying, managing, and optimizing applications within the AWS ecosystem​
• Technologies and Programming Languages: Experience with domain-oriented microservices architecture, including proficiency in Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, and Python, along with experience with SQL/NoSQL databases
• Software Design and Implementation: Expertise in designing and implementing scalable, high-performance software systems
• Performance Optimization: Advanced skills in performance tuning and optimizing software systems
• Technical Leadership: Experience in a tech lead capacity, designing and implementing complex software solutions, and coordinating the work of other engineers
• Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain tools for managing ontologies and organizing domain-specific knowledge
• Handle metadata to ensure that millions of things are well described, easily searchable, and interoperable
• Ensure that different data sources and types can work together effectively
• Provide technical leadership for the team, offering guidance and mentoring to junior developers
• Actively engage in coding across various levels, from APIs and backend microservices to database management
• Collaborate closely with other teams to align requirements with feature specifications and deliver high-quality outcomes for customers
• Apply software security best practices and adhere to secure coding principles