Software Engineer – Marketing Solutions

Overview

When travelers are searching for a hotel, we want the obvious choice to be trivago! Our leading metasearch engine is super fast and constantly optimized – enabling millions of travelers to compare hotel prices from hundreds of booking sites and find great deals in just a few clicks. We use cutting-edge technology, real-time auction, and machine learning techniques with petabytes of data to create an experience – time and money saved! In the lively city of Düsseldorf, we seize opportunities to learn everyday, innovate, and make an enduring mark on the travel industry. At trivago you will find those who aren’t afraid of change but rather embrace it, turning every challenge into a pathway for growth. Join trivago, work with a great team, and grow with us!

Join us in making a difference

Marketing Solutions is a multidisciplinary team that develops and operates a range of products and services powering trivago’s marketing presence across over 50 countries. From brand marketing to search engine marketing, display, affiliate, and CRM, our applications support and automate marketing workflows that help the business understand customers, optimize campaigns, and stay competitive in a rapidly changing market.

Responsibilities

• Maintain: Support and optimise our existing suite of marketing technology products.
• Build: Design and develop new products and features, handling high-volume, distributed workflows.
• Modernise: Contribute to the migration and modernisation of legacy systems and delete old code.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with technical and non-technical teams, contributing to design and product discussions.
• Operate across the full lifecycle: from design and implementation to deployment and monitoring.
• Actively mentor colleagues and contribute with pragmatic, actionable feedback in code reviews, pair programming sessions etc.
• Bring a hands-on approach, iterate quickly, and get things live.

Tech Stack

• Backend: Kotlin / Java (Spring Boot)
• Frontend: React
• Google Cloud (K8), ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Airflow
• gRPC, Kafka, Redis
• Legacy: PHP, Django, Angular

What you'll need to thrive

• Solid experience in web and backend development.
• Familiarity with AI coding assistants to accelerate development workflows.
• Ability to switch context and work on multiple products/services with varying degrees of complexity and technical debt.
• Autonomy, self-motivation, and adaptability are essential: you own your outcomes and can find a path forward with sometimes ambiguous requirements.
• A pragmatic, solutions-oriented approach and a passion for simplicity in design.
• Comfortable with legacy code and migrations as part of everyday life.
• Strong async collaboration and communication skills ; you enjoy explaining concepts across disciplines.
• Critical thinking in code validation for reviewing and debugging AI-generated code.

Stand out with

• Broad experience across the stack, being able to develop simple frontends (React/JS) is a big plus.
• Experience in high-volume, internationalised MarTech, AdTech environments.
• Experience building products from scratch.
• Enthusiasm for documentation and helping colleagues develop their skills.
• Willingness to jump in wherever needed—even if it’s not always “pure coding”

Worried about missing a few requirements? Still apply, and express your motivation as you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles!

What you can look forward to

As you grow, so do we . This is why at trivago, we prioritize your development, offer personalized coaching through Nilo, and provide workshops, educational meetups, conferences, free online learning courses, and access to a fully-equipped campus library.

Moving to join us? No problem. You can count on visa support from our talent support team, a relocation package, interest-free newcomer loan, free language classes, regular team and many company-wide events to build experiences together.

Life happens. We offer self-determined vacation (with a minimum of 25 vacation days), flexible working hours, 2 WFH days weekly, the chance to work remotely for 20 days abroad, free access to the Heycare platform for personalized nanny assistance, and an on-campus kids room.

Enjoy your office days . Use your daily canteen budget to share lunch with colleagues in our canteen, help yourself to complimentary snacks and drinks in our kitchens, choose from a variety of fitness options with our on-site gym, sports classes, and Urban Sports Club membership, and enjoy the comfort of ergonomic desks and focused work areas.