Software Engineer – Marketing Solutions

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 that saves time and money. In the lively city of Düsseldorf, we seize opportunities to learn every day, innovate, and make an enduring mark on the travel industry. At trivago, you will find people 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 more than 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.

As a Software Engineer in Marketing Solutions, you'll have the autonomy to own initiatives from design to deployment, working on high-volume distributed systems while modernizing legacy code. You'll collaborate across disciplines, mentor colleagues, and drive meaningful impact through pragmatic solutions that scale globally. If you're motivated by technical challenges, continuous learning, and the opportunity to shape how we build and operate marketing technology, we'd love to hear from you—apply today!

How you’ll make an impact

• Maintain: Support and optimize our existing suite of marketing technology products.
• Build: Design and develop new products and features, handling high-volume, distributed workflows.
• Modernize: Contribute to the migration and modernization of legacy systems and remove 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 pragmatic, actionable feedback in code reviews, pair programming sessions, and similar formats.
• Bring a hands-on approach, iterate quickly, and get things live.

Our 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 and 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, with the ability to develop simple frontends (React / JavaScript) as a big plus.
• Experience in high-volume, internationalized MarTech or 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!

Recruiting process for this role

• Video Introduction
• Introduction Call
• Technical Interview
• Interview with Stakeholders and Lead

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, an interest-free newcomer loan, free language classes, and regular team and company-wide events to build experiences together.

Life happens. We offer self-determined vacation with a minimum of 25 vacation days, flexible working hours, and up to 2 work-from-home days weekly. Additionally, you can work remotely from a different location within Germany or selected countries abroad for up to 20 days per year. You also get 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.

Thank you for considering a career at trivago! Our commitment to fostering an inclusive and enriching environment for all talents is at the heart of what we do. We understand that embarking on a new job opportunity is a blend of excitement and curiosity. Should any questions arise before you apply, feel free to reach out to us at [email protected]. Join us in our mission to make a positive impact on global travel—we look forward to your application!