Sr. Product Engineer (Backend) - Lifecycle Team

What you’ll do day-to-day

• Lead and build features end-to-end: from reviewing user interviews and product design, through architecture 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/React Native/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

• 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.

• Ruby on Rails
• Python
• Go
• Java
• Kotlin
• Node.js
• .NET
• TypeScript
• React
• Distributed systems
• Microservices
• Event-driven architecture
• Systems thinking
• Scalability design
• Production systems management
• Monitoring
• On-call responsibilities

• 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