About Wego:

We’re on a mission to help people discover the real value of travel — to inspire, to give more reasons, to make it easy — for you to travel. Our company was founded back in 2005, and since then, we’ve imagined and created some of the most well-loved products for travelers all around the world.

Today, Wego is the number 1 travel metasearch engine in the Middle East. There are millions of users on Wego every month — people who travel for adventure, for work, for family and for many other reasons. That’s why we work tirelessly to make your experience of planning & booking flights, hotels and trips as seamless as possible

About the role

We are looking for passionate engineers to join the Payments team. This is a team role and you’ll be involved in many aspects — helping evolve our existing architecture, working with teams to build robust backend systems for payment- and tax-related capabilities, payment checkout forms for the web, and implementing new features and functionality.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Ship and maintain robust and scalable backend services in Go.

• Ship and maintain payment checkout forms in React.js.

• Design and create services and participate in system architecture.

• Help improve code quality through writing unit tests, automation, and performing code reviews.

• Work with the product and design teams to understand end-user requirements, formulate use cases, and then translate that into a pragmatic and effective technical solution.

• Participate in brainstorming sessions and contribute ideas to technology, algorithms, and products.

• Provide feedback to other team members.

• Optimize the performance of the application for maximum speed and scalability.

• Dive into difficult problems and successfully deliver results on schedule.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in hands-on coding and system design as a backend software engineer or full stack engineer.

• A product-minded engineer who cares about the "Why" – Why build this feature? Why does the team work in this way?

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Practical experience with Design Patterns, Design Principles, Software Architecture

• and Algorithms and automated tests (unit / integration / functional).

• Strong web API knowledge and experience in developing highly available and robust APIs.

• Willing to learn new technologies and programming languages.

• Passion for clean and beautiful code with an eye for simplicity and pragmatism.

• Familiarity with version control systems and development environments.

• Experience with build processes, continuous integration, and continuous delivery.

It would be great if you have:

• Experience with Go/React.js

• Familiarity with relational databases.

• Experience with container technology (e.g. Docker).

• Experience in cloud technologies such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform.

• Experience working in the payment and tax/invoice domain.

• Experience operating production APIs and services.