Software Engineer II

Summary

Join Tripadvisor's Performance Marketing team as an experienced software engineer! You'll play a crucial role in driving website traffic and revenue by developing and maintaining platforms and tools for managing SEM, Hotel Ads, and social accounts. Collaborate closely with product managers, analysts, and data scientists to optimize ad spend and build predictive algorithms. This role involves end-to-end feature development, working with a diverse technology stack (Java, Python, PySpark, etc.), and daily code releases. You'll be responsible for all aspects of software engineering, from design to maintenance, and contribute to one of the company's most critical revenue streams. The team is small, entrepreneurial, and operates in a fast-paced, bottom-up environment.

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 and release code to production every few days
• 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
• Provide daily operational support
• Take responsibility for all aspects of software engineering, from design to implementation, QA and maintenance
• Operate across our evolving technology stack
• 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