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.

Tripadvisor is looking for an experienced back-end software engineer to join the Hotels Platform team, which maintains the critical infrastructure and data that powers Tripadvisor’s Hotels pages for over 400 million travelers each month. In this role, you will help us build, enhance, and sustain a suite of highly-performant, consumer-scale microservices that help our travelers plan their next great adventure.
The ideal candidate for this role will have a broad set of battle-tested engineering skills, a strong sense of ownership, a passion for solving complex problems collaboratively, and an unwavering commitment to learning and advancing their craft.

Job Location: Remote/Hybrid

This role is a flexible hybrid or remote position. For hybrid roles please note our office is based in Dublin.

What You’ll Do

• Design, implement, test, and deploy code changes that help the team execute on key strategic and engineering-driven initiatives.
• Work effectively across all layers of the service stack, from designing clean microservice APIs to building efficient database queries and ETLs.
• Own projects end-to-end: from initial design, requirements-vetting, and estimation, to verifying changes in production and proactively addressing any follow-up tasks.
• Provide code-reviews to teammates, ensuring that a proposed change meets the team’s coding standards, best practices, and audit requirements.
• Support the team’s operations through proactive monitoring, data-quality checks, and incident-response protocols.
• Actively seek feedback from peers, and help promote a collaborative, fast-paced engineering culture.

Skills & Experience

• Demonstrated ability to use AI tools to improve efficiency, quality, and decision-making in day-to-day work.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related discipline.
• 3+ years of professional, full-lifecycle software development experience working with large-scale web applications or services, written in Java (preferred) or Kotlin.
• Experience working with relational databases or data-warehouse technologies like Snowflake, BigQuery, or Hadoop
• Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, object-oriented design, and web-service architectures.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills with the ability to communicate complex concepts clearly.
• Demonstrated ability to take end-to-end ownership of projects, working independently and collaboratively to clarify requirements, choose an appropriate implementation approach, and deliver high-quality code.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience with front-end web technologies like React, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, etc.
• Experience working with foundational AWS services and infrastructure-as-code.
• Experience utilizing AI tools like Claude or Cursor effectively to streamline development workflows and reduce cognitive load.
• Experience participating in an operational support rotation.

What We Offer:

• 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.
• Generous referral scheme. Help us grow and be rewarded with generous bonuses for referring successful candidates. 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.

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!

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Senior Data Engineer (Perm, Ireland, Hybrid)

This is a permanent full time opportunity for those based in Ireland. This role will require travel to Germany.

About Nearform

Nearform is an independent team of data & AI experts, engineers, and designers who build intelligent digital solutions and capability at pace. We create AI-enabled solutions that enhance digital experiences, empower developers, and deliver measurable results. In these ways, we partner with ambitious enterprises to deliver enduring impact.

Our deep expertise in solving the world’s most complex digital problems, along with our collaborative, people-first approach, enables enterprises to build breakthrough products and modernise legacy systems by unleashing the power of AI.

Today, our team of 500 experts in 20+ countries is trusted by leading enterprises including Lululemon, Puma, Sun Life, Starbucks, Travelex, Virgin Media 02, and Walmart.  

As part of our Engineering function, you will work closely with clients to translate complex business requirements into innovative digital products. Whether you are a Senior Engineer, Tech Lead, or DevOps Engineer, you will collaborate with distributed teams, leveraging cutting-edge technologies to build secure, high-performance applications. Our Nearform engineers are known for building high quality, scalable solutions that solve real world problems.

About the Senior Data Engineer role

As a Senior Data Engineer at Nearform your main task will be designing, building, and maintaining scalable data platforms, pipelines, and warehouses using SQL, Python, Spark, and other relevant technologies. You will play a key role in building efficient data solutions, optimizing performance, and ensuring seamless data integration. However as you’ll likely work on a variety of projects your responsibilities may also include:

• Designing, building, and optimizing data pipelines and ETL processes for large-scale data ingestion and transformation.
• Developing and maintaining data platforms and warehousing solutions to support analytics and business intelligence needs.
• Implementing scalable data storage solutions and ensuring high availability and performance.
• Enhancing performance in data processing workflows for maximum speed and scalability.
• Collaborating with data scientists, analysts, and stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into data engineering solutions.
• Ensuring data quality, governance, and compliance across all systems.
• Supporting CI/CD processes for data pipeline deployments and implementing best practices in DevOps for data workflows.
• Conducting code reviews and enforcing best practices in version control, automation, and testing.
• Assisting with defining structured source code management and deployment processes.
• Working with and supporting Technical Leaders in project execution and timely delivery.
• Collaborating with client teams.

What we are looking for in this person

• Significant experience delivering at a Senior Engineer level, specialising in Data engineering. Our Seniors typically have at least 6 years’ commercial experience.
• Practical experience of delivering in an agile environment.
• Practical experience and knowledge of developing real-world solutions.
• Extensive hands-on experience in SQL, Python, and Spark for large-scale data processing.
• Databricks experience 
• Strong expertise in data warehousing technologies (e.g., Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, or similar).
• Experience with distributed data processing frameworks (Spark, Hadoop, or similar).
• Deep understanding of ETL processes, data modeling, and schema design.
• Strong experience with cloud-based data solutions (AWS, Azure, GCP) and data lake architectures.
• Experience with automation, CI/CD for data pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Deep understanding of versioning control tools - e.g. Git.
• Experience building software collaboratively using pull requests and code reviews.
• Familiarity with data governance, security, and compliance best practices.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Professional proficiency in English.
• Must hold valid passport for travel.
• Travel, this role will require up to 1 week per month onsite in Germany.

Benefits & Perks

• Annual Company Bonus - We all help Nearform to hit company goals so we all receive a share of the profits on an annual basis in line with company performance. 
• Work Remotely and Flexibly - We have a genuine dedication to work/life balance. Our flexible working culture allows you to work around what matters - school run, no problem! 
• Paid Time Off Package - We offer an annual leave of 24 days plus public holidays. We also offer sick leave, marriage leave and many more.
• Remote Working Allowance - Every 2 years, you will have a budget of up to €1250 to help you set up a comfortable and productive workspace in addition to your essential equipment provided by Nearform when you join.
• Training and Development Allowance - We understand the importance of continuously learning so we offer an allowance of up to €1000 you can use to upskill yourself.
• Healthcare - It’s important to always take care of your health, so we offer additional private healthcare here at Nearform. If you wish to learn more about the plan offered feel free to reach out to our team.
• Pension & Insurances - We offer a pension match of up to 5% and Income Protection and Death in Service for peace of mind.

Our Interview Process

Talent Call (30 mins via Zoom)
An introductory conversation with a member of our Talent Team to learn more about your background, experience, and career goals. We'll also provide a high-level overview of Nearform and answer any questions you may have. This step helps us assess initial alignment.

Technical Assessment (1 hour via Zoom)
A live coding challenge with one of our trained interviewers. You'll be asked to build a working solution to a problem via screen sharing, demonstrating your data engineering expertise, problem-solving ability, and coding best practices in a real-time environment.

Hiring Manager Interview (45 mins via Zoom)
A conversation with a Hiring Manager focused on your approach to teamwork, client collaboration, and problem-solving in an enterprise development setting. We'll also share more details about Nearform and the potential projects you may join.

There may also be an additional interview with the client depending on the project

Ready to Join Us?

If you're passionate about building high-quality applications, solving complex challenges, and driving innovation in enterprise development, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply now via our careers page at Nearform and be part of a team that values technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning.

Nearform is committed to shaping a better world in all that we do. Our global team is built based on respect, inclusivity, diversity and excellence. 

If you require any adjustments to the interview process as part of your application, please let someone from our Talent Team know so they can help.  

Want to start your career as a Java/Scala Developer? 

We’re looking for a Junior Software Developer to join our client’s EMEA Trades Processing team within the Global Markets Operations Technology division. This team plays a vital role in supporting global trading by delivering large-scale projects across both Equity and Fixed Income. Their mission is to keep systems responsive, resilient, and ready to adapt to changing market conditions, while ensuring growth stays aligned with the Target Operating Model.

In this role, you’ll be hands-on with development, contributing to the full software development lifecycle - from analyzing requirements and designing solutions to building and delivering critical components of the technology stack. It’s an excellent opportunity to grow your skills while working on impactful projects that shape how the business operates globally.

Technical Skills Required:

Scala or Java development skills (but we will consider candidates with strong Java skill set and willing to learn Scala)
SQL Programming Competency (with experience of at least one RDBMS)
Strong understanding of software build/ release mgmt (with at least one build tool e.g. ANT)
Good understanding of unit testing concepts
Familiarity with development patterns
Familiarity with Big Data technologies such as Apache Hadoop

Technical Skills Desired:
Familiarity with RDF and SPARQL
Exposure to functional programming (in case you do not have Scala programming skills)

Soft Skills Required:

Proactively own and resolve details of high-level tasks
Enjoy team working environment
Demonstrate an understanding of operational aspects of managing a software stack

How to apply:

1. Submit your application through this advert.
2. Complete the assessment / interview with our Talent team: Complete our straightforward selection process.
3. Interview with the client
4. Training: if successful, you will attend mthree Academy’s online training (~6 weeks), focusing on Java/Scala before starting 
5. Placement: Join a global organization for 24 months.
6. Permanent Role: Transition into permanent roles with the client.

What We are Looking For

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field (2.2 or higher).
• A solid foundation in software engineering principles.
• Skills in troubleshooting, debugging, and test-driven development.
• Knowledge of the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• The right to work in Ireland without visa sponsorship.

What You will Get

• A competitive graduate salary with an annual pay rise.
• A flexible benefits package.
• Ongoing training and mentorship.
• Valuable industry experience and a pathway into a permanent role.

Diversity and Inclusion at mthree

At mthree, we celebrate diversity and foster an environment where everyone can thrive. We value inclusion, equality, and the health and well-being of all employees, ensuring our culture supports courageous teamwork, continuous learning, and making an impact.

The successful candidate must have the right to work in Ireland by the start of their employment and for the full duration of the training and placement period, which is 26 months.