Senior Product Engineer - Lifecycle Team

The role

You will lead and build features end-to-end, from product design to production monitoring. You will partner with the product team to solve user problems and write code across the frontend and backend.

What you will do

• Lead and build features end-to-end from design to deployment
• Partner with the product team to discover user problems and shape solutions
• Write high-quality, maintainable code across frontend and backend
• Build resilient applications and ensure services are always on
• Act as an on-call/incident responder
• Mentor teammates and contribute to engineering practices

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience
• Strong product ownership mindset
• Proficiency in building consumer-facing user experiences at scale
• Expertise with at least one modern web application framework, ideally React/React Native
• Proficiency with building and maintaining component libraries and working with a design system
• Experience building applications working with distributed systems, microservices and event-driven architecture
• Strong systems thinking and ability to design for scalability
• Experience with operating applications in production, monitoring, and on-call responsibilities
• Excellent communication skills
• Experience working in multicultural, distributed teams
• Experience using AI assistants like Cursor, Claude Code or GitHub Copilot for code generation and testing
• Experience leading projects and mentoring other engineers

Nice to have

• Experience Ruby-on-Rails and/or any other back-end language
• Recent experience in building AI-enabled or Agentic applications

Benefits

• Attractive compensation
• Generous Time to Recharge policy with unlimited paid time off
• Amsterdam Program: visit HQ for 2-4 weeks every year in a WeTravel apartment
• Work From Anywhere perk for up to four weeks per calendar year
• Extensive paid family leave
• Three paid volunteer days per year
• 2-week cross-functional onboarding program
• Cutting-edge equipment and tools
• Coverage for certain work-from-home equipment
• Cambly for colleagues for whom English is not their first language
• Access to Booking Marketplace for exclusive discounted rates

Before you apply

• You will work full-time under a B2B contractor agreement, with monthly payments in USD

About the company

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