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’re looking for a product-focused Software Engineer II to join our fast-growing Experiences Engineering team. This is a full-stack role, leveraging Java, SQL, React, AWS and AI tools . It’s ideal for mid-level engineers who enjoy solving complex problems, shipping frequently, and working in a modern cloud environment.

You’ll play a key role in building high-impact features that power millions of traveler experiences 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.

5 hours) of one of our office hubs in Oxford.

What You’Ll Do

Drive Impact: Connect your engineering work directly to traveler value by owning features from design to deployment. Shape the Product: Partner with product, design, and data teams to influence what we build, helping to define specifications and find the most efficient path to success. Collaborate Mentor: Review code, provide thoughtful feedback, and coach less experienced engineers to maintain a high bar for quality.

Innovate with AI: Use agentic AI as a daily partner to plan approaches, automate routine tasks, and focus your energy on solving more complex technical challenges. Champion Operational Health: Take hands-on ownership of system reliability by building monitoring dashboards, managing alerts and support cases, and fixing underlying bugs to continuously improve service resilience and eliminate operational toil. Build for Quality: Design and implement clean, maintainable solutions with a focus on performance, security, and automated testing.

Skills Experience We typically look for a minimum of 2-3 years’ experience, following a Bachelor’s degree or above in Comp Science or a related field. , Java, C#, Go, Python) and familiarity with relational databases. Problem Solving: A strong grasp of computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms) and the ability to apply them to real-world distributed systems.

Data-Driven: A habit of using operational data and experiment results to validate that your changes had the intended effect. AI Coding: you are fluent coding with either Cursor or Codex/Claude/Open Code. Global Mindset: Ability to operate effectively within a global team, communicating clearly about progress and blockers.

We don’t expect you to know everything on day one. However, we’re especially interested if you’ve had exposure to AWS, React, or NoSQL databases. More than any specific tool, we value curiosity and the ability to solve problems creatively.

We value engineers from different technical backgrounds.