Senior Engineering Manager

Location: Krakow

Department: Engineering & Technology

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.

We are hiring a Senior Engineering Manager for our fast-growing Tripadvisor Experiences org. Tripadvisor Experiences (Viator) is the world's leading marketplace for travel experiences. We believe that making memories is what travel is all about. And with 400,000+ travel experiences to explore—everything from simple tours to extreme adventures (and everything in between) —making memories that will last a lifetime has never been easier. 

This is a hybrid role based out of Krakow on a permanent contract of employment/Umowa o pracę. We are unable to offer B2B contracts at this time.

What You'll Do:

• 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.

What You'll Need:

• 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.

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.

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 [email protected].

If you have any additional questions about careers at Tripadvisor you can email us at [email protected]. We have all the answers!

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