Technical Lead/Principal Engineer

Summary

Join Tripadvisor's SEO team as a Principal Software Engineer and lead the evolution of our SEO platform. You will build and drive the technical roadmap, design solutions to business problems, and mentor a team of engineers. Leveraging extensive datasets, you'll refine existing tools and build new ones, impacting millions of vacations booked annually. This role offers the flexibility of fully remote, hybrid, or office-based work in Needham, MA or El Segundo, CA. You'll collaborate with SEO analysts and business leaders, contributing to Tripadvisor's continued growth. The role requires significant experience in software engineering, data analysis, and large-scale project execution.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience as a professional engineer
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent
• Deep experience querying, ETLing, and analyzing large data sets in databases
• Prior experience running and executing large scale initiatives successfully
• Prior partnerships with business leaders, working collaboratively to achieve substantial goals
• Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, and OO design

Responsibilities

• Build and drive a technical roadmap for our SEO platform
• Design solutions to business problems by building new tools and/or processes
• Take on projects with independence and a mandate to leave things better than you found them
• Be pragmatic when solving problems with a deep understanding of the purpose and goal of your work
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience managing Linux systems and JBOD/RAID infrastructure
• Experience working with HTML/CSS and interacting with the DOM
• Some exposure to the following technologies: Python, Perl, SQL, Snowflake, React, Postgres, Gradle, BERT, AWS

Benefits

Fully remote, hybrid or office based work options