Staff Software Engineer — Lead Scalable Travel Platform

TripAdvisor LLC; United States; On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

TripAdvisor LLC is seeking a Staff/Principal Product Engineer who blends engineering craft with product instincts, working across mobile, web, and backend. You’ll partner with product, design, and data to identify what to build and ship end-to-end.

You’ll be expected to lead in the mobile ecosystem while maintaining breadth beyond it, including architecture reviews and solving latency issues across services. Collaboration and leadership across teams are essential.

Qualifications

• 10+ years software experience with hands-on coding.
• Demonstrated breadth across web frontend, backend, data/infra alongside mobile.

Responsibilities

• Identify, scope, and ship changes that move business metrics across stacks.
• Architect long-lasting systems for performance and reliability.
• Lead technical design reviews and trade-off discussions.
• Drive operational maturity: release mgmt, observability, incident response.

Skills

10+ years experience

Mobile app depth

iOS/Android expertise

Cross-functional collaboration

Code review leadership

Tools

Swift

Kotlin

Job description

TripAdvisor LLC is seeking a Staff/Principal Product Engineer who blends engineering craft with product instincts, working across mobile, web, and backend. You’ll partner with product, design, and data to identify what to build and ship end-to-end.

You’ll be expected to lead in the mobile ecosystem while maintaining breadth beyond it, including architecture reviews and solving latency issues across services. Collaboration and leadership across teams are essential.