
Tripadvisor · Kraków
Senior Software Engineer About Tripadvisor The Tripadvisor Group connects people to experiences worth sharing, and aims to be the world’s most trusted ...
Senior Software Engineer
About Tripadvisor
The Tripadvisor Group connects people to experiences worth sharing, and aims to be the world’s most trusted source for travel and
experiences. We leverage our brands, technology, and capabilities to connect our global audience with partners through rich
content, travel guidance, and two-sided marketplaces for experiences, accommodations, restaurants, and other travel categories.
The subsidiaries of Tripadvisor, Inc. (Nasdaq: TRIP), include a portfolio of travel brands and businesses, including Tripadvisor,
Viator, and TheFork.
Tripadvisor Experiences Engineering is the team that builds and supports the world's leading marketplace for travel experiences.
We believe that making memories is what travel is all about. And with 400,000+ travel experiences to explore—everything from
simple tours to extreme adventures (and everything in between) —making memories that will last a lifetime has never been easier.
About the Role
We are looking for a product-focused Senior Software Engineer to join our Experiences Engineering team. This is a full-stack role,
leveraging Java, SQL, React, AWS and AI tools. It suits "T-shaped" engineers who thrive on autonomy and technical leadership.
You’ll build and maintain highly scalable distributed systems that power travel experiences for millions of users globally.
We embrace flexibility in where and how work gets done and also value meaningful in-person moments to connect and collaborate. You
can expect a remote-first working model with periodic in-person gatherings at your closest office for team connection, planning,
or other key moments. This position is open to candidates based within a commutable distance (generally up to 1.5 hours) of one of
our office hubs in London, Oxford, Krakow or Lisbon.
What You’ll Do
balancing security, privacy, and performance.
specifications, often serving as the technical lead for multi-quarter initiatives.
engineers.
standards for monitoring and reliability.
identifying structural risks and setting the team-wide standards for automation, monitoring, and long-term stability.
increase team velocity.
Skills & Experience
We typically look for 5+ years’ experience, following a Bachelor’s degree or above in Comp Science or a related field.
backend systems in cloud environments.
validate every significant technical decision.
with modern front-end frameworks.
evolving environment.
non-technical partners.
We’d love to see experience with NoSQL databases, GraphQL, Kafka, or containerization (Docker/Kubernetes). Experience building
tools or abstractions that provide leverage to an entire engineering team is also a significant plus. We don’t expect you to know
everything on day one. More than any specific tool, we value curiosity and the ability to solve problems creatively.
We value engineers from different technical backgrounds. You can complete our coding interview exercises in any language of your
choice, but need to be open to working within the Java ecosystem when you join!
What We Offer
to join on-site as often as you’d like in select locations.
value. Their collective behaviors and insights are what drives us.
aspect of our business. Our execution is agile, data-driven, prioritised, and built to scale. We assume no problem is someone
else’s problem and finish what can be done today, knowing tomorrow will bring fresh challenges.
goals. We collaborate relentlessly, challenge assumptions, give actionable feedback, and set each other up for success through
empowered teams with a clear charter. We transparently take ownership of our growth, individually and as a team. We celebrate
the quality of our effort, our learnings, and our collective achievements.
Discover more in our Tech Blog, for an inside look into some of our exciting and ground-breaking technical projects here at
Tripadvisor Group.
Tripadvisor Group champions the unique identities, abilities, and experiences of all our people – employees, customers, and
partners. This stems from our belief in the transformative power of travel, dining, and experiences to connect us and open doors
to worlds very different from our own. Our ED&I strategy shapes how we approach our people, culture, business, and reputation.
Tripadvisor Group strives to embed inclusion and belonging across all our brands.
We strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all candidates. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the
application or the recruiting process, please make sure to reach out to your individual recruiter or our team at
AccessibleRecruiting@tripadvisor.com.
If you have any additional questions about careers at Tripadvisor you can email us at recruitment@tripadvisor.com. We have all the
answers!
Senior Software Engineer About Tripadvisor The Tripadvisor Group connects people to experiences worth sharing, and aims to be the world’s most trusted source for travel and experiences. We leverage our brands, technology, and capabilities to connect our global audience with partners through rich content, travel guidance, and two-sided marketplaces for experiences, accommodations, restaurants, and other travel categories. The subsidiaries of Tripadvisor, Inc. (Nasdaq: TRIP), include a portfolio of travel brands and businesses, including Tripadvisor, Viator, and TheFork. Tripadvisor Experiences Engineering is the team that builds and supports the world's leading marketplace for travel experiences. We believe that making memories is what travel is all about. And with 400,000+ travel experiences to explore—everything from simple tours to extreme adventures (and everything in between) —making memories that will last a lifetime has never been easier. About the Role We are looking for a product-focused Senior Software Engineer to join our Experiences Engineering team. This is a full-stack role, leveraging Java, SQL, React, AWS and AI tools. It suits "T-shaped" engineers who thrive on autonomy and technical leadership. You’ll build and maintain highly scalable distributed systems that power travel experiences for millions of users globally. We embrace flexibility in where and how work gets done and also value meaningful in-person moments to connect and collaborate. You can expect a remote-first working model with periodic in-person gatherings at your closest office for team connection, planning, or other key moments. This position is open to candidates based within a commutable distance (generally up to 1.5 hours) of one of our office hubs in London, Oxford, Krakow or Lisbon. What You’ll Do * Lead Technical Design: Own features end-to-end, leading the design and implementation of highly visible features while balancing security, privacy, and performance. * Translate Strategy to Action: Work with Product and Data partners to turn high-level business goals into clear technical specifications, often serving as the technical lead for multi-quarter initiatives. * Elevate the Team: Set the bar for code quality, lead the adoption of review standards, and mentor junior and mid-level engineers. * Master Agentic AI: Use AI tools as a strategic partner to plan approaches, decompose ambiguous work, and establish new standards for monitoring and reliability. * Architect for Resilience: Define the operational strategy and design highly fault-tolerant architectures, proactively identifying structural risks and setting the team-wide standards for automation, monitoring, and long-term stability. * Optimize Systems: Actively look for opportunities to simplify, consolidate, or retire legacy code to reduce complexity and increase team velocity. Skills & Experience We typically look for 5+ years’ experience, following a Bachelor’s degree or above in Comp Science or a related field. * Distributed Systems Expertise: Deep understanding of concurrent programming and experience building high-performance, scalable backend systems in cloud environments. * Analytical Mindset: A habit of asking "how will we know this worked?" and using operational data or experiment results to validate every significant technical decision. * Full-Stack Proficiency: Strong experience in at least one modern backend language (e.g., Java, C#, Go, Python) and familiarity with modern front-end frameworks. * AI Coding: you are fluent coding with either Cursor or Codex/Claude/Open Code. * Navigating Ambiguity: Comfortable making rational tradeoffs between non-functional requirements and delivery speed in an evolving environment. * Collaborative Leadership: Proven ability to build relationships across disciplines and communicate technical trade-offs to non-technical partners. We’d love to see experience with NoSQL databases, GraphQL, Kafka, or containerization (Docker/Kubernetes). Experience building tools or abstractions that provide leverage to an entire engineering team is also a significant plus. We don’t expect you to know everything on day one. More than any specific tool, we value curiosity and the ability to solve problems creatively. We value engineers from different technical backgrounds. You can complete our coding interview exercises in any language of your choice, but need to be open to working within the Java ecosystem when you join! What We Offer * Competitive compensation packages, including base salary, annual bonus, and more. * “Work your way” with flexibility to suit your lifestyle. We take a remote-friendly approach to collaboration, with the option to join on-site as often as you’d like in select locations. * Flexible schedule. Work-life balance is ingrained in our culture by design. Trust and accountability make it work. * Donation matching. Give back? Give more! We match qualifying charitable donations annually. * Tuition assistance. Want to level up your career? We love to hear it! Receive annual support for qualified programs. * Lifestyle benefit. An annual benefit to spend on yourself. Use it on travel, wellness, or whatever suits you. * Travel perks. We believe that travel is employee development, so we provide discounts and more. * Employee assistance program. We’re here for you with resources and programs to help you through life’s challenges. * Health benefits. We offer great coverage and competitive premiums. * Generous referral scheme. Help us grow and be rewarded with generous awards for referring successful candidates. Our Cultural Pillars: * Traveller first: We exist to create value for our customer, the traveler. We enable our suppliers and partners to unlock this value. Their collective behaviors and insights are what drives us. * Execution is our edge: We act fast, experiment, learn from failure, iterate, and improve the solutions of tomorrow across every aspect of our business. Our execution is agile, data-driven, prioritised, and built to scale. We assume no problem is someone else’s problem and finish what can be done today, knowing tomorrow will bring fresh challenges. * We succeed together: The best outcomes are driven by empathic, humble, and diverse subject matter experts working toward shared goals. We collaborate relentlessly, challenge assumptions, give actionable feedback, and set each other up for success through empowered teams with a clear charter. We transparently take ownership of our growth, individually and as a team. We celebrate the quality of our effort, our learnings, and our collective achievements. Discover more in our Tech Blog, for an inside look into some of our exciting and ground-breaking technical projects here at Tripadvisor Group. Tripadvisor Group champions the unique identities, abilities, and experiences of all our people – employees, customers, and partners. This stems from our belief in the transformative power of travel, dining, and experiences to connect us and open doors to worlds very different from our own. Our ED&I strategy shapes how we approach our people, culture, business, and reputation. Tripadvisor Group strives to embed inclusion and belonging across all our brands. We strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all candidates. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please make sure to reach out to your individual recruiter or our team at AccessibleRecruiting@tripadvisor.com. If you have any additional questions about careers at Tripadvisor you can email us at recruitment@tripadvisor.com. We have all the answers!
About Tripadvisor The Tripadvisor Group connects people to experiences worth sharing, and aims to be the world’s most trusted source for travel and experiences. We leverage our brands, technology, and capabilities to connect our global audience with partners through rich content, travel guidance, and two-sided marketplaces for experiences, accommodations, restaurants, and other travel categories. The subsidiaries of Tripadvisor, Inc. (Nasdaq: TRIP), include a portfolio of travel brands and businesses, including Tripadvisor, Viator, and TheFork. The Tripadvisor Experiences Engineering team is distributed across Europe and is responsible for the platform, mobile apps and all their supporting infrastructure. We run the systems that help operators build their businesses and those which enable third parties to utilise our inventory. We provide the tools which help our customer services team provide world class service to travellers and operators internationally. About the Role We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer - iOS to join our fast-growing team. This role is open to candidates based within a commutable distance (generally up to 1.5 hours) of our office hub in Kraków. We are unable to offer B2B contracts at this time. We embrace flexibility in where and how work gets done and also value meaningful in-person moments to connect and collaborate. You can expect a remote-first working model with periodic in-person gatherings at your closest office for team connection, planning, or other key moments. Within Tripadvisor we have a fun and friendly environment where the key objective is getting things done. Our engineers take part in the full process from design, to code, to test, to deployment and back again for further iteration. Our tech stack includes Swift, SwiftUI, Combine and GraphQL in a modular layout that follows SOLID principles using Clean Architecture with MVVM-C. Would you like to build features end to end? Would you enjoy working with a large number of technologies? Do you like moving quickly, releasing features daily, working with other smart and talented engineers? If this sounds like you, we’d love to talk to you. What you will do * Code! Our engineers focus on doing what they enjoy most and do best, writing code * Touch code at every level – while the focus is app development, you’ll also have opportunities to work on backend microservices * Collaborate closely with Product and design teams to define feature specifications and develop high quality deliverables for our customers * Take responsibility for all aspects of software engineering, from design to implementation, development experience, QA and maintenance * Work alongside other engineering groups located around the world What we’re looking for * Experience of developing an iOS app and familiarity with mobile web and back-end technologies would be beneficial * At least 8 years’ experience of commercial software development, ideally working with a rich user interface * Experience with reactive programming in native mobile platforms * Willingness and ability to take on new technologies * Ability to break down complex problems into simple solutions * High quality verbal and written communication skills * Sense of ownership and pride in your work What We Offer * Competitive compensation packages (routinely benchmarked against the latest industry data), including base salary and annual bonuses * “Work your way” with flexibility to suit your lifestyle. Tripadvisor Group takes a remote-friendly approach to collaboration across a worldwide team, with the option to join on-site as often as you’d like or as required by your team. * Flexible schedule. Work-life balance is ingrained in our culture by design. Trust and accountability make it work. * Donation matching. Give back? Give more! We match qualifying charitable donations annually. * Tuition assistance. Want to level up your career? We love to hear it! Receive annual support for qualified programs. * Lifestyle benefit. An annual benefit to spend on yourself. Use it on travel, wellness, or whatever suits you. * Travel perks. We believe that travel is employee development, so we provide discounts and more. * Employee assistance program. We’re here for you with resources and programs to help you through life’s challenges. * Health benefits. We offer great coverage and competitive premiums. * Generous referral scheme. Help us grow and be rewarded with generous awards for referring successful candidates. Our Cultural Pillars: Traveler first We exist to create value for our customer, the traveler. We enable our suppliers and partners to unlock this value. Their collective behaviors and insights are what drives us. Execution is our edge We act fast, experiment, learn from failure, iterate, and improve the solutions of tomorrow across every aspect of our business. Our execution is agile, data-driven, prioritised, and built to scale. We assume no problem is someone else’s problem and finish what can be done today, knowing tomorrow will bring fresh challenges. We succeed together The best outcomes are driven by empathic, humble, and diverse subject matter experts working toward shared goals. We collaborate relentlessly, challenge assumptions, give actionable feedback, and set each other up for success through empowered teams with a clear charter. We transparently take ownership of our growth, individually and as a team. We celebrate the quality of our effort, our learnings, and our collective achievements. We strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all candidates. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please make sure to reach out to your individual recruiter or our team at AccessibleRecruiting@tripadvisor.com. If you have any additional questions about careers at Tripadvisor you can email us at recruitment@tripadvisor.com. We have all the answers!
Job Summary We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with strong full-stack development, cloud (AWS), and automation-driven system design experience. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience building enterprise-grade platforms, intelligent/AI-enabled systems, and scalable cloud infrastructure, and will play a key role in system architecture, development, and mentoring. Key Responsibilities Design, develop, and maintain enterprise-grade software systems and platforms. Build and enhance full-stack applications (frontend, backend, APIs). Develop and operate cloud-native systems on AWS, ensuring scalability, security, and reliability. Implement automation pipelines for deployment, infrastructure, monitoring, and system workflows. Contribute to intelligent platforms such as virtual assistants, AI-enabled or data-driven systems. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions. Support system architecture decisions and improve overall platform performance. Maintain and optimize cloud infrastructure across multiple projects. Mentor junior engineers and promote best practices in coding, testing, and system design. Required Skills & Qualifications Education Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related fields. Master's degree or ongoing study in Machine Learning, AI, Image Analysis, or related areas is a strong plus. Technical Skills Core Engineering Strong experience as a Senior / Full-Stack Software Engineer. Solid understanding of software architecture, system scalability, and design patterns. Experience building enterprise-level platforms or products. Backend & Platform Strong backend development experience (API design, services, background jobs). Experience building agent-based systems, virtual assistants, or workflow-driven platforms is a plus. Familiarity with AI/ML-integrated systems (even at application level). Frontend Experience with modern frontend frameworks (React, Angular, Vue or similar). Ability to build cross-platform and responsive interfaces. Cloud & Automation (Key Requirement) Strong hands-on experience with AWS services. Experience managing cloud infrastructure across multiple projects. Proficiency in: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) CI/CD pipelines Deployment and environment automation Monitoring and logging automation Understanding of cloud cost optimization and security best practices. AI / Advanced Systems (Nice to Have) Exposure to: Machine Learning Image analysis / Computer Vision Intelligent automation or data-driven decision systems Soft Skills Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking. Ability to work independently and take ownership of systems. Good communication skills in cross-team and international environments. Mentoring mindset and senior-level responsibility. Nice-to-Have Experience Experience working on global projects with international clients. Background in automotive, advertising technology, or enterprise platforms. Experience with cross-platform mobile applications. Previous work on facial recognition or data-driven targeting systems. Öppen för alla Vi fokuserar på din kompetens, inte dina övriga förutsättningar. Vi är öppna för att anpassa rollen eller arbetsplatsen efter dina behov.