Principal Software Engineer (Experiences)

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 Tripadvisor.com, the Tripadvisor 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. We’re looking for a Principal Software Engineer 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 Cracow office. 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 is a permanent contract of employment/Umowa o pracę. What you'll do: • Drive the design and architecture of complex, scalable systems that underpin our technology solutions. Capable of designing long-lasting systems to solve complex problems (including scalability, reliability, consistency and quality) often across an engineering pillar. • Conduct design reviews at both the engineering pillar level and across the broader engineering organization. • Leads generalisable improvements in operational maturity for his platform and promotes best practices with other engineers when it comes to operations. • Work closely with engineering managers, other principal and senior principal engineers to drive technology strategy and roadmap that aligns to the wider organisation vision. • Partners with Product Manager(s) and Engineering Manager(s) to establish clear technical delivery milestones for key initiatives and then helps to drive delivery within the agreed scope, quality and on time. • Build trusted leadership by being regarded as a go-to person across a wide number of technologies, practices, and tools used in an engineering pillar. • Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders to ensure alignment on project goals, commitments, and timelines. Skills & Experience: • 10+ years of experience in commercial software development. • Demonstrated excellence in working with cross functional teams in fast-paced environments, both in terms of technical leadership and cross team collaboration. • Excellent command of tools and expertise for troubleshooting production issues. • Experience around building scalable and distributed software systems, from conception to production. • Experience of software architecture, design principles and engineering best practices. • Experience with AWS or Azure cloud platforms, object-oriented programming languages such as Java, Python, or Scala, and working with both SQL and NoSQL databases. • Exposure to the data engineering ecosystem will be a huge plus. Why Join Us? • Competitive compensation packages, including base salary and annual bonus. • “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 locat