Job Overview
Location
Krakow
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Engineering Manager
Date Posted
June 18, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • Lead multiple engineering pods within an Engineering Group, managing and coaching Managers and Principal Engineers, and owning hiring for the organisation in partnership with Talent Acquisition.
- • Foster a collaborative and innovative team culture and champion effective Agile development processes.
- • Partner with Product to create and execute a multi-quarter roadmap across your pods. Hold pods accountable for delivering commitments on time and ensure dependencies - including those outside Engineering - are scheduled to meet them.
- • Work closely with Principal Engineers to drive technology strategy and roadmap that aligns with the wider organisation vision.
- • Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders to ensure alignment on project goals, commitments, and timelines.
- • Hold the teams accountable for operational excellence and quality. Run operations reviews, quality triaging, and incident debriefs. Ensure high-quality post-mortems are completed and action items are closed on time, represent the team in Incident Reviews.
- • Calibrate performance assessments across the team, ensure every engineer has a formal career plan and goals, and deliver consistent feedback.
- • Leverage AI to automate routine tasks and to assist with idea refinement, prioritisation, planning, and document creation. Advocate for effective AI usage across your pods and in the product.
- • Define and enforce engineering best practices to ensure deliverables are complete, on time, and meet a high-quality standard.
🎯 Requirements
- • 10 years’ experience of commercial software development.
- • 5+ years of engineering management, including experience as a second-line manager running multiple pods and managing other managers.
- • Background in a product-focused company, collaborating closely with stakeholders to build up a backlog of product and technical initiatives.
- • Directly responsible for performance management, formal career planning, and calibration across a team of teams.
- • Strong mentorship skills, helping managers and engineers to grow technically and professionally.
- • Strong technical background with the ability to deep-dive into designs and tradeoffs when needed, even if not coding day-to-day.
- • Excellent ability to break down complex problems into simple solutions.
- • Proven leadership in driving major projects and actively participating in cross-functional teams in fast-paced, dynamic environments.
- • Strong analytical skills to identify risks early, mitigate issues and provide contingency plans.
- • Adept at making high-level decisions about product and technical direction, balancing business objectives with engineering capabilities.
- • Demonstrated use of AI tools for planning, prioritisation, and document creation, plus awareness of best practices for producing and reviewing code with AI tools.
🏖️ Benefits
- • Competitive compensation packages (routinely benchmarked against the latest industry data), including base salary and annual bonuses.
- • “Work your way” with flexibility to suit your lifestyle. Tripadvisor Group takes a remote-friendly approach to collaboration across a worldwide team, with the option to join on-site as often as you’d like or as required by your team.
- • Flexible schedule. Work-life balance is ingrained in our culture by design. Trust and accountability make it work.
- • Donation matching. Give back? Give more! We match qualifying charitable donations annually.
- • Tuition assistance. Want to level up your career? We love to hear it! Receive annual support for qualified programs.
- • Lifestyle benefit. An annual benefit to spend on yourself. Use it on travel, wellness, or whatever suits you.
- • Travel perks. We believe that travel is employee development, so we provide discounts and more.
- • Employee assistance program. We’re here for you with resources and programs to help you through life’s challenges.
- • Health benefits. We offer great coverage and competitive premiums.
- • Generous referral scheme. Help us grow and be rewarded with generous awards for referring successful candidates.
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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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