Software Engineer II

Summary

Join Tripadvisor's Performance Marketing team as an experienced software engineer and help drive visitors to the website. Collaborate with product managers, analysts, and data scientists to contribute to the company's success in the global travel marketplace. You will be responsible for coding, developing platforms and tools for managing various advertising accounts, working with data scientists on predictive algorithms, providing daily operational support, and taking ownership of all aspects of software engineering. The ideal candidate will have experience with a variety of technologies and a passion for building features end-to-end. Tripadvisor offers a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment with a daily release cycle and a bottom-up organizational structure.

Requirements

• At least 4+ years’ experience of commercial software development
• Experience with designing and querying relational databases and big data
• Familiarity with Linux
• Computer Science degree or equivalent experience
• Willingness and ability to take on new technologies
• Ability to break down complex problems into simple solutions
• Strong analytical skills and desire to write clean, correct and efficient code
• High quality verbal and written communication skills
• Sense of ownership, urgency and pride in your work

Responsibilities

• Code! Most of our engineers release code to production every few days and we have a daily release cycle
• Develop platforms and tools for managing SEM, Hotel Ads and social accounts. This includes partner API integrations, Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) data engineering processes to produce tables & insights, feed generation and more
• Work closely with our data scientists and analysts to produce predictive algorithms for bidding and optimizing ad spend
• Daily operational support - you’ll be part of a team that owns these crucial systems
• Take responsibility for all aspects of software engineering, from design to implementation, QA and maintenance
• Operate across our evolving technology stack - we’re using Java, Python, PySpark, Hive, Snowflake, BigQuery, Postgres, React, and more
• Take pride in growing one of the most critical revenue sources for the company

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous marketing (SEM, Facebook/Instagram, Display) experience
• Familiarity with ETL processes
• Back end development experience