Senior Product Engineer – Payments Team

🕒 May 26

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WeTravel

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2016

🛍️ eCommerce

☁️ SaaS

💰 $27M Series B on 2022-10

Travel • eCommerce • SaaS

WeTravel is a comprehensive booking and payments platform designed specifically for multi-day and group travel businesses. It enables over 5,000 travel companies to accept payments instantly, manage bookings efficiently, and facilitate global supplier transfers. The platform offers tools for creating stunning trip pages, payment processing with low fees, and easy booking management to enhance the customer journey and streamline operations for travel advisors and agencies.

📋 Description

• Lead payments projects end-to-end: discovery with Product and PayOps teams, integration design with PSPs, build, rollout, monitoring, and incident response. • Partner with the Product team to gain insight into organizer and traveler challenges, building payment solutions that successfully process transactions. • Own the reliability of our payments system • Contribute to WeTravel’s engineering practices and excellence.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of product engineering expertise, with 4+ years dedicated to architecting complex payments systems. • Proven track record within a PSP, acquirer, gateway, or a high-scale platform payments team. • Broad practical expertise in deploying and troubleshooting production-level integrations across various PSPs, card acquirer ecosystems, and diverse payment rails. You possess deeply ingrained expertise in settlement processes, reconciliation, dispute management, 3DS2 protocols, high-pressure webhook management, and PCI compliance frameworks, including tokenization methods. • 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 payment flows you architect. • Deep expertise in architecting robust, resilient distributed systems, including double-entry ledgers, automated reconciliation pipelines, money movement 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. • Strong background in cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), containerization, and modern CI/CD practices. • Experience in handling critical systems with precision: you will handle FX and multi-currency logic directly within the application layer. • Bonus: Direct card issuing experience, including BIN sponsorship, processor integrations, controls, and dispute handling. • Experience launching a new payment method or PSP integration end-to-end. • Experience building or operating a card issuing program. • Experience in marketplace or two-sided platform payments (split payments, payouts, escrow-like flows).

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary • Generous "Time to Recharge" policy - enjoy unlimited paid time off to rest, recharge, and show up as your best self. • Work remotely for a maximum of 4 weeks per calendar year. • 2-week cross-functional onboarding program. • Annual team off-site (often somewhere sunny 🌊). • 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 - take time to give back to causes you care about, on us. • Cutting-edge equipment and tools to set you up for success. • Join an international, travel-loving team with a passion for adventure and innovation.