1 day ago
Amsterdam, NetherlandsSenior
Responsibilities
- Lead booking projects from discovery and solution design through building, rollout, monitoring, and incident response.
- Build and improve localized checkout flows that support high-conversion reservations across global markets.
- Develop order and reservation management systems supporting changes, transfers, cancellations, modifications, and refunds.
- Expand pricing and tax capabilities across jurisdictions for compliant commerce operations.
- Own the reliability, scalability, and structural improvements of booking and order management systems.
- Collaborate with Product and Customer teams to understand organizer and traveler needs and improve booking experiences.
- Contribute to engineering practices, technical excellence, team culture, and mentoring.
Requirements
- 7+ years of product engineering experience, including 4+ years architecting complex e-commerce, booking, or order management systems.
- Experience on a high-scale consumer checkout, marketplace, travel, or e-commerce platform team.
- Deep production experience with checkout and order flows, including conversion funnels, pricing and tax calculation, availability and inventory, cancellations, modifications, refunds, order state machines, and operational tooling.
- Strong backend expertise in Ruby on Rails, Kotlin, Python, Go, Java, or Node.js, with the ability to ramp up quickly on Ruby.
- Full-stack experience building React interfaces for booking flows.
- Expertise designing resilient distributed systems involving reservation state machines, idempotency, exactly-once semantics, event-driven architectures, webhooks, and reliable consumer patterns.
- Production on-call experience, including writing post-mortems and leading incident response.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and experience collaborating cross-functionally in distributed, multicultural environments.
- Practical experience using AI tools to improve engineering workflows and mentoring or training others on AI concepts.
- Strong background in AWS or GCP, containerization, and modern CI/CD practices.
- Preferred experience launching or substantially redesigning checkout or booking flows end-to-end.
- Preferred experience building tax calculation or compliance capabilities across multiple jurisdictions.
- Preferred experience with marketplace or two-sided platform commerce.
- Bonus experience with tax engines, VAT, GST, sales tax, or travel-industry reservation systems.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and generous paid time off through an unlimited paid time-off policy.
- Remote-friendly work culture, with remote work permitted for a maximum of 4 weeks per calendar year.
- Two-week cross-functional onboarding program.
- Cycle-to-work scheme through a Swapfiets subscription or commuting reimbursement.
- Monday and Thursday team lunches and after-work social events.
- Extensive paid family leave.
- Three paid volunteer days per year.
- Cutting-edge equipment and tools.
- Access to discounted personal hotel and flight bookings through the Booking Marketplace.
- International, travel-focused team and flexible work environment.
Tech Stack
AWSGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKotlinKubernetesMongoDBMySQLNode.jsPostgreSQLPythonReactRuby on RailsSnowflakeTypeScript
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About WeTravel
WeTravel builds a payment and booking platform for multi-day and group travel businesses, with tools for custom itineraries, deposits, installment plans, and supplier payouts. It monetizes through software subscriptions and payment processing fees. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, it serves tour operators, retreat organizers, and student-trip providers worldwide, with growing adoption across Europe, including the UK, Ireland, and Italy.