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Senior Product Engineer - Booking Management

WeTravel· Engineering & Product
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Hybrid (Amsterdam)Full-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior Product Engineer leading critical Booking Management projects (checkout, order management, tax management) to scale and localize booking flows for a global traveler base at WeTravel.

Responsibilities

  • Lead booking projects end-to-end: discovery with Product and Customer teams, solution design, build, rollout, monitoring, and incident response.
  • Partner with the Product team to gain insight into organizer and traveler challenges, building booking experiences that convert and delight.
  • Own the reliability of our booking and order management systems
  • Contribute to WeTravel's engineering practices and excellence.

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of product engineering expertise, with 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: conversion-critical funnels, pricing and tax calculation, availability and inventory, cancellations, modifications, and refund flows.
  • Strong backend mastery in Ruby on Rails, Kotlin, Python, Go, Java, or Node.js with the agility to ramp up on Ruby quickly.
  • Full-stack comfort: you can build the React interface for the booking flows you architect.
  • Deep expertise in architecting robust, resilient distributed systems, including order and reservation state machines, idempotency, exactly-once semantics, event-driven architectures, webhooks, and reliable consumer patterns.
  • Direct production on-call experience, including authoring post-mortems and leading incident response.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including cross-functional collaboration experience, and the ability to thrive in a distributed, multicultural environment.
  • Pragmatic adoption of AI tools to optimize your engineering workflow, including the ability to mentor and train others on AI concepts.

Skills

Required:Checkout and order flow designBackend developmentFull-stack developmentDistributed systems & architecture

Benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • Generous 'Time to Recharge' policy - unlimited paid time off
  • Remote work up to 4 weeks per calendar year
  • 2-week cross-functional onboarding program
  • Cycle-to-work scheme or commuting reimbursement
  • Team lunches and after-work social events
  • Extensive paid family leave
  • Three paid volunteer days per year
  • Cutting-edge equipment and tools
  • International, travel-loving team culture
  • Access to Booking Marketplace with exclusive personal travel discounts
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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