24 hours ago
Amsterdam, NetherlandsSenior
Responsibilities
- Lead booking projects end-to-end, including discovery, solution design, development, rollout, monitoring, and incident response.
- Build and improve checkout, order management, tax management, and traveler self-service experiences.
- Develop systems for reservations, changes, transfers, cancellations, refunds, pricing, tax calculation, availability, and inventory.
- Own the reliability and scalability of booking and order management systems, including supporting 10x growth.
- Partner with Product and Customer teams to understand organizer and traveler needs and improve conversion.
- Contribute to engineering practices, technical excellence, team culture, and mentoring, including AI concepts and tools.
Requirements
- 7+ years of product engineering experience, including 4+ years architecting complex e-commerce, booking, or order management systems.
- Experience working on high-scale consumer checkout, marketplace, travel, or e-commerce platforms.
- Deep production expertise in checkout and order flows, pricing and tax calculation, availability and inventory, cancellations, modifications, refunds, order state machines, and operational tooling.
- 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 experience building React interfaces for booking flows.
- Expertise designing resilient distributed systems with 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.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, containerization, and modern CI/CD practices, including AWS or GCP and Kubernetes.
- Experience handling pricing and tax logic directly in the application layer.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and experience collaborating cross-functionally in distributed, multicultural environments.
- Pragmatic use of AI tools to improve engineering workflows, with the ability to mentor and train others on AI concepts.
- Preferred experience launching or significantly redesigning checkout or booking flows, building multi-jurisdiction tax capabilities, or working with marketplace and two-sided commerce systems.
- Bonus experience with tax engines, VAT, GST, sales tax, or travel-industry reservation systems.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and generous paid time off through an unlimited 'Time to Recharge' policy.
- Remote-friendly work culture, with remote work available for a maximum of 4 weeks per calendar year.
- Two-week cross-functional onboarding program.
- Annual team off-site.
- Cycle-to-work scheme through Swapfiets 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 focused on travel and innovation.
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.