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title: 'Staff Software Engineer (Web & Mobile) at Tripadvisor'
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# Staff Software Engineer (Web & Mobile) at Tripadvisor

- **Company:** Tripadvisor
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Posted:** 2026-07-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/tripadvisor/jobs/8081677

## Job description

## 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 Staff/Principal Product Engineer who pairs deep engineering craft with strong product instincts. You'll work across the stack - mobile, web, backend - wherever the highest-leverage problem happens to live that quarter. You don't wait for a perfectly scoped ticket; you partner with product, design, and data to figure out what's worth building, then ship it end-to-end.

We expect breadth. We also expect real depth in the mobile app ecosystem - our customer-facing experiences live there. But we're not hiring a mobile only specialist. We're hiring a generalist with mobile chops who can lead an iOS architecture review on Tuesday and untangle a backend latency regression on Wednesday.

## What you'll do

- Identify, scope, and ship the changes that move business metrics - across mobile, web, services, and data layers
- Architect long-lasting systems that hold up under real production conditions: performance, reliability, scalability, offline behavior, consistency
- Lead technical design reviews across teams, weighing trade-offs not just in code but in product impact, time-to-ship, and operational cost
- Drive operational maturity wherever it's weakest - release management, observability, incident response, performance monitoring - including in the mobile apps
- Partner with PMs, designers, and engineering leaders to shape what we build, why, and in what order; you're a peer in those conversations, not a downstream implementer
- Set the technical bar for the org by example: write the prototype, prove the pattern, then teach it
- Communicate trade-offs clearly to engineers, product partners, and senior stakeholders

## What we're looking for

- 10+ years of software experience, with significant time still spent hands-on in code - track record of shipping product-impacting work end-to-end, not just owning a layer
- Real depth in the mobile app ecosystem (iOS and/or Android, with strong fluency in Swift and/or Kotlin and the surrounding ecosystem - offline sync, push, auth, persistence, networking, REST/GraphQL) - and credible breadth beyond it
- Demonstrated breadth: you've worked seriously in at least one of {web frontend, backend services, data/infra, platform tooling} alongside mobile, and can hold your own in code review there
- Strong product judgment: you've made calls about what not to build, and can defend them with evidence
- Comfort troubleshooting in production across stacks - crash analysis, latency tracing, release-health debugging
- Excellent cross-functional collaboration; you make the people around you better

## Nice to have

- Background in marketplaces, bookings, or other transactional consumer products
- Time spent close to data - experimentation, analytics instrumentation, or ML-adjacent work

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!

## #LI-SM1

#LI-Remote

#LI-Hybrid

## About Tripadvisor

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Tripadvisor is the world's largest travel guidance platform, helping hundreds of millions of travelers each month plan, book, and share experiences using over a billion reviews and opinions.
- **Entity Type**: Public (NASDAQ: TRIP)
- **Headquarters**: Needham, Massachusetts, United States
- **Founded**: Not publicly available in provided sources (commonly known as 2000, but not cited)
- **Founders**: Not publicly available in provided sources (commonly known as Stephen Kaufer, but not cited)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Travel technology / Software development
- **Target Customers**: B2C (travelers seeking reviews, booking, and trip planning) and B2B (hotels, restaurants, attractions, and experience providers)
- **Mission Statement**: “To bring people, passions, and places together and make everyone a better traveler.” [careers.tripadvisor.com](https://careers.tripadvisor.com/)

## Products & Services
- **Tripadvisor.com / App**: The core platform offering reviews, ratings, and booking for accommodations, restaurants, and attractions.
- **Viator**: Marketplace for bookable tours, activities, and experiences.
- **TheFork**: Restaurant reservation platform (primarily in Europe).
- **Cruise Critic**: Cruise reviews and information.
- **FlipKey / Holiday Lettings**: Vacation rental listing platforms.
- **SeatGuru**: Airline seat maps and in-flight amenity information.
- **SinglePlatform**: Digital menu and local business listing management.
- **Bokun**: Booking and inventory management software for tour operators.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: $3.5 billion (as of search date) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tripadvisor)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of $1.9 billion (most recent reported) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tripadvisor)
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Publicly traded; parent company is Liberty TripAdvisor Holdings Inc. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tripadvisor)
- **Growth Signals**: Serves 400M+ monthly users; over 1 billion reviews and contributions; operates in 43 markets and 22 languages; recent acquisition of Liberty TripAdvisor Holdings (2025) for $437M; headcount of 1,816 (‑1.7% YoY) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tripadvisor) [tripadvisor.com](https://www.tripadvisor.com/)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Massive User-Generated Content**: Over 1 billion reviews and opinions across nearly 8 million businesses create a strong network effect.
- **Global Brand Recognition**: One of the most recognized travel brands worldwide, with presence in 75 countries.
- **Diverse Product Portfolio**: From reviews to booking to restaurant reservations (TheFork) and experiences (Viator), covering the full travel journey.
- **Data Moat**: Decades of traveler behavior data enable personalization and AI-driven recommendations.

## Strategic Focus
- **Next Chapter in Travel**: CEO Matt (last name not provided) emphasizes “writing the next chapter” and supporting small businesses. [careers.tripadvisor.com](https://careers.tripadvisor.com/)
- **AI & Personalization**: Recent departures of AI leadership suggest ongoing transformation; job postings include senior engineering and product roles focused on data and AI.
- **Hybrid Work & Global Talent**: Activity-based working model encourages in-person collaboration while supporting remote flexibility across offices in the Americas, EMEA, and APAC.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: Described as “fueled by curiosity, flexibility, and collaboration” with a shared love of travel. [careers.tripadvisor.com](https://careers.tripadvisor.com/life-at-tripadvisor)
- **Work Model**: Activity-based working (hybrid) – some roles optimized for office, others for home; all full-time employees expected to spend some in-person time.
- **Benefits**: Full medical premium coverage for employee-only plans (some options), dental, vision, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), free Calm subscription, virtual babysitting/wellness support via SitterStream. [careers.tripadvisor.com](https://careers.tripadvisor.com/life-at-tripadvisor)
- **Career Development**: Award‑winning development program focused on growing yourself, others, and the business; live and on‑demand learning experiences. [careers.tripadvisor.com](https://careers.tripadvisor.com/life-at-tripadvisor)
- **Diversity & Inclusion**: Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) for underrepresented communities; recognized as a leader in LGBTQ+ Workplace Inclusion (2026). [careers.tripadvisor.com](https://careers.tripadvisor.com/)
- **Employee Ratings**: 3.6/5.0 on LinkedIn (1,668 reviews); Work‑Life 4.2, Compensation 3.9, Culture 3.9. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tripadvisor)
- **Global Offices**: Major hubs in Needham (MA), New York, London, Oxford, Paris, Sydney, Tokyo, Singapore, and many more. [careers.tripadvisor.com](https://careers.tripadvisor.com/life-at-tripadvisor)

## Sources
1. [careers.tripadvisor.com](https://careers.tripadvisor.com/) – Official careers page, mission, benefits, culture
2. [careers.tripadvisor.com/life-at-tripadvisor](https://careers.tripadvisor.com/life-at-tripadvisor) – Life at Tripadvisor, benefits, offices, ERGs
3. [linkedin.com/company/tripadvisor](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tripadvisor) – Company overview, financials, headcount, recent departures, acquisitions
4. [tripadvisor.com](https://www.tripadvisor.com/) – Core platform, reviews count, user base

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