About Viator
Viator, a Tripadvisor company, is the leading marketplace for travel experiences. We believe that making memories is what travel is all about. And with 300,000+ travel experiences to explore—everything from simple tours to extreme adventures (and all the niche, interesting stuff in between)—making memories that will last a lifetime has never been easier. With industry-leading flexibility and last-minute availability, it's never too late to make any day extraordinary. Viator. One app, 300,000+ travel experiences you’ll remember.
Viator is a Tripadvisor company that makes it easy to find and book something you'll love to do. With an industry leading selection of high-quality experiences, Viator gives millions of travellers a month something new to discover, both near and far from home.
We believe that we are better together, and at Viator we welcome you for who you are. Our workplace is for everyone, as is our people powered platform. At Viator, we want you to bring your unique identities, abilities and experiences, so we can collectively revolutionise travel and together find the good out there.
What you'll do:
- Drive the design and architecture of complex, scalable systems that underpin our technology solutions. Capable of designing long-lasting systems to solve complex problems (including scalability, reliability, consistency and quality) often across an engineering pillar.
- Conduct design reviews at both the engineering pillar level and across the broader engineering organization.
- Leads generalisable improvements in operational maturity for his platform and promotes best practices with other engineers when it comes to operations.
- Work closely with engineering managers, other principal and senior principal engineers to drive technology strategy and roadmap that aligns to the wider organisation vision.
- Partners with Product Manager(s) and Engineering Manager(s) to establish clear technical delivery milestones for key initiatives and then helps to drive delivery within the agreed scope, quality and on time.
- Build trusted leadership by being regarded as a go-to person across a wide number of technologies, practices, and tools used in an engineering pillar.
- Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders to ensure alignment on project goals, commitments, and timelines.
What you'll need:
- 10+ years of experience in commercial software development.
- Demonstrated excellence in working with cross functional teams in fast-paced environments, both in terms of technical leadership and cross team collaboration.
- Excellent command of tools and expertise for troubleshooting production issues.
- Experience around building scalable and distributed software systems, from conception to production.
- Experience of software architecture, design principles and engineering best practices.
- Experience with AWS or Azure cloud platforms, object-oriented programming languages such as Java, Python, or Scala, and working with both SQL and NoSQL databases.
- Exposure to the data engineering ecosystem will be a huge plus.
Perks of Working at Viator
- Competitive compensation packages, including base salary and annual bonus.
- “Work your way” with flexibility to suit your lifestyle. We take a remote-friendly approach to collaboration, with the option to join on-site as often as you’d like in select locations.
- 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.
Our Values
We aspire to lead; We’re relentlessly curious;... want to know more? Read up on our values:
- We aspire to lead. Tap into your talent, ambition, and knowledge to bring us – and you – to new heights.
- We’re relentlessly curious. We push beyond the usual, the known, the “that’s just how it’s done.”
- We’re better together. We learn from, accept, respect, support, and value one another– and are creating something remarkable in the process.
- We serve our customers, always. We listen, question, respond, and strive for wow moments.
- We strive for better, not perfect. We won’t get it right the first time – or every time. We’ll provide a safe environment in which to make mistakes, iterate, improve, and grow.
- Our workplace is for everyone, as is our people powered platform. At Tripadvisor, we want you to bring your unique identities, abilities, and experiences, so we can collectively revolutionize travel and together find the good out there.
