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Reykjavíkurborg, Ísland
Onsite
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Back-end Engineer | Bókun
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.
About Bókun
Join Bókun, a Tripadvisor company, and help transform the tours and activities industry. Our booking management software helps travel operators worldwide increase their bookings and simplify operations. As part of our team, you'll help develop solutions that improve how businesses in the travel sector operate and grow.
We are looking for a motivated and innovative Back-end Engineer to join our team in Reykjavík, Iceland. This is a fantastic opportunity to create impactful software that will help shape the future of travel technology. Our product has grown over years, so the work is a mix of building new features and modernising older areas of the back-end.
Job Location: On-site
This role is an on-site position in our Reykjavik, Iceland office.
Start Date: January 2027 (Planned start date)
Timeline: Hiring now for a January 2027 start date.
What we're looking for
Required
Proficient in Java and modern back-end architectures
Comfortable communicating in English (our working language)
4+ years experience
Nice to have
Comfortable working across the stack
Background in travel, e-commerce, or marketplace platforms
What you'll do
Build for real operators. Build software used by thousands of tour and activity businesses around the world — what you ship gets used, fast.
Write code, daily. This is a hands-on engineering role. You'll spend most of your time building, not in meetings.
Work end-to-end. Collaborate with product, design, and front-end to take features from idea to production.
Improve the foundations. Refactor, modernise, and pay down technical debt in a mature codebase that's earned its complexity honestly.
Shape the platform. Contribute to architectural decisions and help guide where our back-end goes next.
Collaborate with the best. Join a team of skilled engineers where you'll brainstorm, refine ideas, and learn from people who care about their craft.
Our stack
Frontend
TypeScript
React
Tailwind CSS
TanStack Query & Router
Next.js (booking management UI)
React Native (operator app)
Backend
Java
Play Framework
MySQL
OpenSearch
Redis
Amazon SQS
Don't worry if you're not familiar with every technology — we're committed to helping you learn and grow!
Working with AI
Every engineer at Bókun has access to Claude Code and other leading AI coding assistants, and we actively use them as part of day-to-day development. We've invested in this seriously — both in tools and in the time to figure out how they fit into our workflows. If working somewhere that takes AI engineering seriously matters to you, you'll feel at home here.
Why Bókun?
Competitive Compensation: Attractive salary and performance-based bonuses
Work-Life Balance: Flexible working hours and remote work options
Career Growth: Continuous learning opportunities and clear paths for advancement
Global Impact: Your work will be used by millions of travelers and businesses worldwide
Innovative Environment: Be part of a team that's pushing the boundaries of travel tech
Perks
🏢 Nice office in central Reykjavík
🍽️ Delicious daily lunch provided
☕ Top-notch coffee and snacks to fuel your creativity
🚗 Convenient indoor car parking
🏋️ On-site gym with a hot tub (World Class)
🧘 Lifestyle and wellness benefits
🎉 Regular team events and activities
Application process
Initial call (30 minutes): Connect with our recruiter to learn more about the role and share your background.
Technical screening (45 minutes): Interview to assess your technical expertise, provide insight into our work, and gauge your interest in advancing further.
Coding assignment: Solve a simple coding assignment at your own pace.
On-site interviews (around 3 hours total): Meet the team, tour the office, and engage in technical discussions, job-relevant coding exercises, and cultural fit conversations with team members.
Ready to Shape the Future of Travel?
If you're excited about creating innovative solutions that impact millions of travelers and businesses globally, we want to hear from you!
What We Offer
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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