Technical Manager (Platform Technology)
Tripadvisor LLC

Job Info

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At Tripadvisor, we believe there's good out there. We understand that travel brings out the best in us, while lifting deserving businesses and strengthening the communities we meet along the way. We know that as the world's largest travel site, we're here to inspire and empower people to explore our world with confidence - and share their trip experiences with others. And every day, we see our ideas come to life in work that enables travelers to discover all the good the world has to offer. As part of the Tripadvisor team, you'll have the opportunity to do the same.

We are looking to engage with highly experienced Technical Managers who aspire to take on technical leadership and/or management duties as well as hands-on design, architecture and coding. As the newest Technical Manager you'll be joining a world class Engineering team creating a new domain-driven platform architecture with an emphasis on cloud infrastructure and site reliability and observability.

What You'll Do:

In this role you will lead a single small to medium-sized team of engineers. You will be responsible for administering an agile process to manage your team's work. You will encourage iteration and breaking down complex projects into smaller discrete parts. You will champion software engineering best practices and coach your tech leads and individual contributors on how they can improve their craft and ultimately their career. As a seasoned engineering leader, you are capable of stepping into the shoes of a technical lead, comfortable discussing design and architecture tradeoffs. You will also:

• You may even contribute code when time and necessity permits.
• You will foster a productive, collaborative, and results-driven culture on your team.
• Lead an engineering team as part of a larger organization
• Champion effective Agile development processes
• Mentor software engineers to help them develop their software design and development skills
• Track industry trends yet be pragmatic when introducing new technology
• Show leadership as a hands-on developer in multiple layers of the software stack
• Show a sense of ownership and pride in your role as a leader and make us believe you will excel
• Manage a team towards long-term goals while delivering new capabilities daily
• Work with everyone from engineers to product owners to C-level executives to help communicate, prioritize, influence and inform key product decisions
• Design complex systems through the entire stack with an organization-wide impact

Qualifications:

You have demonstrated excellence running cross-functional engineering teams in fast-paced environments, both in terms of technical leadership and hands-on coding. You are a leader who can prioritize, communicate clearly, and partner effectively with both technical and non-technical employees. The Tripadvisor engineering team requires innovative thinking balanced with a strong customer focus.

• Bachelor of Science or above in Computer Science
• A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and Object Oriented Software Design
• Strong cloud knowledge ideally with AWS, particularity with migrating apps and/or services to the cloud and building cloud-native apps/solutions (GCP also considered)
• Experience with high-volume web applications preferred
• 10+ years of large scale, full life cycle development experience
• 10+ years experience developing complete Java-based, database-driven server side, multithreaded web applications.
• In-depth and hands on knowledge of Linux, Java, JavaScript and related open source technologies such as Apache, Tomcat, and Postgres SQL, Docker, Memcached and Kubernetes
• Strong knowledge of observability best practices and tools (logs, metrics, traces etc)
• Track record of proven success as a key technical leader with a bias towards action.

What you'll get:

• Annual bonus.
• Highly competitive salary
• Excellent contributory pension.
• Full family private medical cover.
• Full dental cover.
• Annual wellbeing allowance (e.g. gym membership)
• Personal travel reimbursement.
• Critical illness plus full life cover.
• Childcare vouchers.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Employee assistance program.

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