About Wego

Wego is on a mission to help people discover the real value of travel — to inspire, to give more reasons, and to make it easier than ever to explore the world.

Founded in 2005, Wego has grown into the number one travel metasearch engine in the Middle East. Every month, millions of users rely on Wego to find the best deals for flights, hotels, and travel experiences. We’re passionate about building seamless, user-friendly products that make travel planning simple, efficient, and enjoyable.

About the Role

We’re looking for passionate engineers to join our Payments team. This is a collaborative team role where you’ll contribute to building and evolving robust backend systems and payment capabilities that power our platform.

You’ll be working on:

• Payment and tax-related backend systems

• Web-based checkout forms

• Internal CMS tools

• System architecture design and improvements

• Feature development and implementation

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain scalable backend services in Go

• Build and manage checkout forms using React.js

• Design and implement systems architecture and APIs

• Write unit, integration, and functional tests

• Conduct code reviews and ensure code quality

• Collaborate with product and design teams to translate requirements into technical solutions

• Optimize application performance for speed and scalability

• Brainstorm technical solutions and contribute ideas to improve product and engineering

• Provide feedback and mentorship to team members

• Solve complex problems and deliver high-quality results on schedule

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in backend or full-stack development

• Strong understanding of system design and architecture

• Experience building and maintaining web APIs

• Product-focused mindset — you care about the “why”

• Practical knowledge of:

  • Software design principles and patterns

  • Algorithms and data structures

  • Automated testing (unit/integration/functional)

• Comfortable with version control systems (e.g. Git)

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and build processes

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills

• Passion for clean, efficient, and pragmatic code

• Eagerness to learn new technologies and languages

Nice to Have

• Experience with Go and React.js

• Familiarity with relational databases

• Exposure to containerization tools (e.g. Docker)

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, etc.)

• Domain experience in payments or tax/invoicing

• Experience running and maintaining production APIs/services