Job Overview
Location
Lisbon
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Software Engineering
Date Posted
May 6, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • As a Principal Software Engineer - Mobile at Tripadvisor, you will drive high-impact product development across mobile, web, and backend systems, shaping features that directly influence traveler experiences and business outcomes.
- • Day to day, you will identify and scope high-leverage improvements, architect scalable and reliable systems, lead technical design reviews, troubleshoot production issues across stacks, and partner with product, design, and data teams to prioritize and ship end-to-end solutions.
- • You will join the Tripadvisor Experiences Engineering team, a distributed European group responsible for the platform, mobile apps, and supporting infrastructure that enables operators and third parties to leverage Tripadvisor’s inventory and empowers customer service teams to deliver world-class support.
- • In this role, you will deepen your technical leadership, sharpen your product judgment, and influence engineering excellence by setting the bar through hands-on prototyping, mentoring peers, and driving operational maturity in release management, observability, and incident response.
🎯 Requirements
- • 10+ years of software experience with significant hands-on coding and a track record of shipping product-impacting work end-to-end
- • Real depth in the mobile app ecosystem (iOS and/or Android) with strong fluency in Swift and/or Kotlin, including offline sync, push, auth, persistence, networking, and REST/GraphQL
- • Demonstrated breadth in at least one of web frontend, backend services, data/infra, or platform tooling alongside mobile, with ability to contribute effectively in code reviews
- • Strong product judgment, including the ability to defend decisions about what not to build with evidence
- • Comfort troubleshooting in production across stacks, including crash analysis, latency tracing, and release-health debugging
- • Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills that elevate the performance of those around you
🏖️ Benefits
- • Competitive compensation packages including base salary and annual bonuses, benchmarked against industry data
- • Flexible remote-friendly work options with the ability to join on-site as needed or desired
- • Annual lifestyle benefit for personal use on travel, wellness, or other individual priorities
- • Travel perks including discounts and other travel-related employee development opportunities
- • Tuition assistance for qualified career development programs
- • Donation matching for qualifying charitable contributions
Skills & Technologies
About Tripadvisor LLC
Tripadvisor LLC operates a global online travel platform that aggregates user-generated reviews, ratings, and photos for accommodations, restaurants, attractions, and experiences. Founded in 2000, it provides price-comparison tools and booking capabilities for hotels, flights, vacation rentals, and tours. The company monetizes through click-based advertising, subscription services for businesses, and transaction fees. Its brands include Tripadvisor, Viator, and TheFork. The platform serves millions of travelers monthly across 40+ countries and 20+ languages, leveraging a vast database of traveler insights and community-contributed content to guide travel planning and purchasing decisions worldwide.
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