Senior Product Engineer - Booking Management

The role

You will lead critical projects across checkout, order management, tax management, and traveler self-service. You will partner with Product teams to design, build, and monitor booking experiences and own the reliability of booking and order management systems.

What you will do

• Lead booking projects end-to-end including discovery, design, build, rollout, monitoring, and incident response
• Partner with the Product team to build booking experiences
• Own the reliability of booking and order management systems
• Contribute to WeTravel's engineering practices and excellence

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of product engineering expertise
• 4+ years dedicated to architecting complex e-commerce, booking, or order management systems
• Proven track record within a high-scale consumer checkout, marketplace, travel, or e-commerce platform team
• Broad practical expertise in building and troubleshooting production-level checkout and order flows
• Strong backend mastery in Ruby on Rails, Kotlin, Python, Go, Java, or Node.js
• Full-stack comfort building React interfaces
• Deep expertise in architecting robust, resilient distributed systems
• Direct production on-call experience, including authoring post-mortems and leading incident response
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Pragmatic adoption of AI tools to optimize engineering workflow
• Strong background in cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), containerization, and modern CI/CD practices
• Experience in handling critical systems with precision

Nice to have

• Direct experience with tax engines or multi-jurisdiction tax compliance (VAT, GST, sales tax)
• Direct experience with travel-industry reservation systems
• Experience launching or significantly redesigning a checkout or booking flow end-to-end
• Experience building tax calculation or compliance capabilities across multiple jurisdictions
• Experience in marketplace or two-sided platform commerce

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Generous Time to Recharge policy with unlimited paid time off
• Work remotely for a maximum of 4 weeks per calendar year
• 2-week cross-functional onboarding program
• Cycle-to-work scheme (Swapfiets subscription) or commuting reimbursement
• Monday/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 Booking Marketplace for discounted hotels and flights

About the company

WeTravel builds tools that empower entrepreneurs to launch and grow travel businesses. The platform helps organizers create trip proposals, process payments, and manage customers.