About the role
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.