Sr. Product Engineer (Backend) - Lifecycle Team at WeTravel

What you’ll do day-to-day

• Lead and build features end-to-end: from reviewing user interviews and product design, through architection and building systems to deployment and monitoring in production.
• Partner closely with our product team to discover user problems and shape their solutions - creating a world class experience for our organizers and travelers.
• Write high-quality, maintainable code across both frontend (TypeScript/React) and backend (Ruby on Rails).
• Ensure our services are always on by building resilient applications, ensuring they are well monitored and mitigating incidents as an on-call/incident responder.
• Mentor teammates and contribute to WeTravel’s engineering practices and excellence.

How we work

• We’re focused on the impact. We don’t subscribe to any one framework or execution ideology, and we adapt based on what’s impactful.
• We’re using the latest hardware and constantly on the look out for better tools & ways to work
• Stack: We’re using React/ReactNative/TypeScript + Ruby on Rails and Python Microservices on Kubernetes. We also use and love MongoDB, MySQL, Postgres, Snowflake and we’re working with the major LLM providers.

​​​​​​​You should apply if you have

Basic qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience (ideally full-stack) with strong product ownership mindset
• Proficiency with Ruby on Rails, or in at least two other languages Python/Go/Java/Kotlin/Node.js or .NET with desire to learn Ruby
• Have experience and the desire to build user experiences (e.g. web front-ends)
• Have experience building and working with distributed systems, microservices and event-driven architecture and demonstrate strong systems thinking and can design for scalability
• Have experience with production systems, monitoring, and on-call responsibilities