Software Engineer II - Cruise Critic Engineering

Who we are:
Tripadvisor’s global cruise business includes Cruise Critic, the world’s largest cruise reviews and information site, offering a comprehensive resource for cruise travelers which covers audiences from first-time cruisers to avid cruise enthusiasts. Cruise Critic features more than 350,000 cruise reviews and hosts the world's largest online cruise community. Our tight group works to inspire memorable experiences through passion and excellence in editorial content, technology and industry relationships. At CruiseCritic and Tripadvisor, we believe that we are better together and we welcome you for who you are. Our workplace is for everyone, as are our people powered platforms.

What we do at Cruise Critic Engineering:

• Solve challenges of scale, user engagement and traffic growth for cruisecritic.com as well our UK and AU points of sale
• Collaborate in a fast-paced, globally distributed team to address business and technological initiatives
• Work with cutting-edge technology to deliver the best user experience, coupled with sustainable tooling, test harnesses and documentation

What you’ll do:
CruiseCritic is looking for a strong Software Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will help us build, upgrade and sustain cruisecritic.com along with its supporting suite of tools and processes that enable the success of our business. Our engineers work on all areas of our diverse stack, including a growing list of new technologies, and we favor decisive, collaborative action in all that we do. A general set of responsibilities is as follows:

• Code! Most of our engineer’s release code to production every few days and we have an as-needed release cycle to accommodate our fast-paced goals.
• Take responsibility for the quality of the code produced by you and the team
• Operate across our evolving technology stack - you'll be working with Typescript, React, NextJs, Graphql and more.
• Take responsibility for all aspects of software engineering - design, implementation, QA/CI, and maintenance.
• Touch code at every level – from the UI, through backend services and down to the database.
• Collaborate closely with Product, design teams and other business stakeholders to define feature specifications and develop high quality deliverables for our customers.

What we are looking for?

• Solid knowledge in Next.js and Typescript
• AWS experience, ideally with some serverless knowledge using Lambdas.
• Database management with MYSQL or similar relational databases.
• Knowledge in Node.js.
• Management of Graphql/REST services.
• Version control and code reviews with Git.
• Experience on responsive web design, browsers compatibility and multiple support for devices.
• Chakra-UI experience a bonus.
• PHP experience is a strong bonus.
• At least 4 years of experience developing at JavaScript and React.

The salary range for this role is $120,000 to $165,000. This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. An employee’s pay position within the wage range will be based on several factors including, but limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, sales or revenue-based metrics, and business or organizational needs. This compensation range may also be modified in the future.
This job is also eligible for bonus pay. We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending accounts, and tuition reimbursement to eligible employees.