5 months ago
Tallinn, EstoniaSenior
Responsibilities
- Lead payments projects end to end, from discovery and PSP integration design through implementation, rollout, monitoring, and incident response.
- Expand local payment methods, including UPI, PIX, and account-to-account rails, across priority markets.
- Build card issuing capabilities including ledgers, authorization flows, controls, and operational tooling.
- Scale payment processing reliability toward 10x growth and support multi-currency and FX capabilities across more than 20 currencies.
- Partner with Product and PayOps to understand organizer and traveler needs and build effective payment solutions.
- Own payments-system reliability, participate in on-call operations, write post-mortems, and lead incident response.
- Contribute to engineering practices, technical excellence, team culture, and mentoring, including AI-tool adoption.
Requirements
- 7+ years of product engineering experience, including 4+ years architecting complex payments systems.
- Experience at a PSP, acquirer, gateway, or high-scale platform payments team.
- Production experience integrating and troubleshooting PSPs, card acquirer ecosystems, and diverse payment rails.
- Deep expertise in settlement, reconciliation, dispute management, 3DS2, webhook management, PCI compliance, and tokenization.
- Strong backend experience with Ruby on Rails, Kotlin, Python, Go, Java, or Node.js, with the ability to ramp up quickly on Ruby.
- Full-stack comfort building React interfaces for payment flows.
- Experience designing distributed payment systems involving double-entry ledgers, reconciliation pipelines, money movement state machines, idempotency, exactly-once semantics, event-driven architectures, webhooks, and reliable consumers.
- Direct production on-call experience, including post-mortems and incident response leadership.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, containerization, and modern CI/CD practices, including AWS or GCP and Kubernetes.
- Experience handling FX and multi-currency logic directly in the application layer.
- Strong written and verbal communication and cross-functional collaboration skills in distributed, multicultural environments.
- Pragmatic use of AI tools and ability to mentor and train others on AI concepts.
- Preferred: experience launching payment methods or PSP integrations, operating card-issuing programs, or building marketplace and two-sided-platform payment flows.
- Bonus: card issuing experience including BIN sponsorship, processor integrations, controls, and dispute handling.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and salary.
- Unlimited paid time off through the Time to Recharge policy.
- Remote-friendly work culture; employees are hired in a designated country and eligible employees may work temporarily from another approved location for up to four weeks per calendar year.
- Two-week cross-functional onboarding program.
- Annual team off-site.
- 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.
- International team with travel-focused culture.
Tech Stack
AWSGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKotlinKubernetesMongoDBMySQLNode.jsPostgreSQLPythonReactRuby on RailsSnowflakeTypeScript
Categories
BackendProduct Engineering
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.