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We're looking for a Principal Product Engineer who pairs deep engineering craft with strong product instincts. You'll work across the stack - mobile, web, backend - wherever the highest-leverage problem happens to live that quarter. You don't wait for a perfectly scoped ticket; you partner with product, design, and data to figure out what's worth building, then ship it end-to-end. We expect breadth. We also expect real depth in the mobile app ecosystem - our customer-facing experiences live there. But we're not hiring a mobile only specialist. We're hiring a generalist with mobile chops who can lead an iOS architecture review on Tuesday and untangle a backend latency regression on Wednesday. This role is open to candidates based within a commutable distance (generally up to 1.5 hours) of Lisbon, however we also offer flexible hybrid working.
Job Responsibility
Identify, scope, and ship the changes that move business metrics - across mobile, web, services, and data layers
Architect long-lasting systems that hold up under real production conditions: performance, reliability, scalability, offline behavior, consistency
Lead technical design reviews across teams, weighing trade-offs not just in code but in product impact, time-to-ship, and operational cost
Drive operational maturity wherever it's weakest - release management, observability, incident response, performance monitoring - including in the mobile apps
Partner with PMs, designers, and engineering leaders to shape what we build, why, and in what order
you're a peer in those conversations, not a downstream implementer
Set the technical bar for the org by example: write the prototype, prove the pattern, then teach it
Communicate trade-offs clearly to engineers, product partners, and senior stakeholders
Requirements
10+ years of software experience, with significant time still spent hands-on in code - track record of shipping product-impacting work end-to-end, not just owning a layer
Real depth in the mobile app ecosystem (iOS and/or Android, with strong fluency in Swift and/or Kotlin and the surrounding ecosystem - offline sync, push, auth, persistence, networking, REST/GraphQL) - and credible breadth beyond it
Demonstrated breadth: you've worked seriously in at least one of {web frontend, backend services, data/infra, platform tooling} alongside mobile, and can hold your own in code review there
Strong product judgment: you've made calls about what not to build, and can defend them with evidence
Comfort troubleshooting in production across stacks - crash analysis, latency tracing, release-health debugging
Excellent cross-functional collaboration
you make the people around you better.
Nice to have
Background in marketplaces, bookings, or other transactional consumer products
Time spent close to data - experimentation, analytics instrumentation, or ML-adjacent work
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.
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.