Principal Product Engineer
TripAdvisorResponsibilities
- Identify, scope, and ship changes across mobile, web, services, and data layers that improve business metrics.
- Architect systems for performance, reliability, scalability, offline behavior, and consistency in production.
- Lead cross-team technical design reviews while evaluating product impact, delivery speed, and operational cost.
- Improve operational maturity through release management, observability, incident response, and performance monitoring, including for mobile applications.
- Partner with product managers, designers, data partners, and engineering leaders to determine what to build and prioritize.
- Set technical standards by prototyping solutions, establishing patterns, and teaching other engineers.
- Clearly communicate technical trade-offs to engineers, product partners, and senior stakeholders.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software experience with significant continued hands-on coding experience.
- Deep experience in the mobile app ecosystem, including iOS and/or Android, Swift and/or Kotlin, and mobile concerns such as offline sync, push, authentication, persistence, networking, REST, and GraphQL.
- Serious experience in at least one additional area among web frontend, backend services, data and infrastructure, or platform tooling.
- Demonstrated ability to ship product-impacting work end to end and make evidence-based product decisions.
- Production troubleshooting experience across stacks, including crash analysis, latency tracing, and release-health debugging.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration and communication skills.
- Experience with marketplaces, bookings, transactional consumer products, experimentation, analytics instrumentation, or ML-adjacent work is preferred.
Benefits
- Remote or hybrid work arrangement is indicated.
- Inclusive hiring process with reasonable accommodations available.
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About TripAdvisor
Tripadvisor, the world's largest travel guidance platform*, helps hundreds of millions of people each month** become better travelers, from planning to booking to taking a trip. Travelers across the globe use the Tripadvisor site and app to discover where to stay, what to do and where to eat based on guidance from those who have been there before. With more than 1 billion reviews and opinions of nearly 8 million businesses, travelers turn to Tripadvisor to find deals on accommodations, book experiences, reserve tables at delicious restaurants and discover great places nearby. As a travel guidance company available in 43 markets and 22 languages, Tripadvisor makes planning easy no matter the trip type. The subsidiaries of Tripadvisor, Inc. (Nasdaq: TRIP), own and operate a portfolio of travel media brands and businesses, operating under various websites and apps, including the following: www.bokun.io, www.cruisecritic.com, www.flipkey.com, www.thefork.com, www.helloreco.com, www.holidaylettings.co.uk, www.jetsetter.com, www.niumba.com, www.seatguru.com, www.singleplatform.com, www.vacationhomerentals.com, www.viator.com. * Source: SimilarWeb, unique users de-duplicated monthly, September 2023 ** Source: Tripadvisor internal log files