Summary

We are seeking a Team Lead for the Flights Booking domain, owning mission-critical booking flows that power Wego’s OTA. This role combines technical depth with product engineering leadership, working across Product, Design, Business, and Data to co-create a reliable, scalable, and customer-friendly booking experience.

You’ll operate with high agency, driving strategy and execution while mentoring engineers and raising the bar for excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Product Engineering Leadership

  • Co-create the product strategy and roadmap with Product and Design.

  • Optimize for business impact while improving booking reliability.

  • Operate with high agency — proactively identifying opportunities, driving decisions, and owning outcomes across engineering and product.
    

• Technical Leadership

  • Lead and mentor a multidisciplinary engineering team, fostering a safe and collaborative environment.

  • Shape the architecture of complex systems and get hands-on with system design and coding.

  • Own production APIs/services with a focus on scalability, reliability, and fraud prevention.

  • Maintain system reliability through on-call rotations and incident response for mission-critical booking flows.

  • Ensure best practices in application security and data compliance.
    

• AI Fluency

  • Use modern AI coding assistants (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, Copilot) to solve large problems, stepping in mainly to guide and correct.

  • Review and validate AI output to ensure correctness, maintainability, and quality.

  • Encourage team adoption of AI tools to boost productivity and reduce toil.
    

• Team Development

  • Drive team productivity through coaching, facilitation, and 1:1s.

  • Hire and grow a high-performing engineering team.

  • Actively monitor engineering processes to identify and resolve bottlenecks.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering, including 2+ years in technical leadership roles.

• Proven leadership skills with hands-on experience in:

  • Containers (Docker, Kubernetes).

  • Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure).

  • Databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Cassandra).

  • Caching (Redis, Memcached).

• Strong CI/CD experience.

• Proficiency in Java, Go, or modern frontend frameworks (React, Angular, Vue).

• Familiar with monitoring/observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).

• Strong understanding of system architecture, scalability, and reliability best practices.

• Track record collaborating across Product, Design, and Business.

• AI fluency: daily use of coding assistants, with the ability to review and validate output.

• Strong product mindset: turning business/customer needs into technical outcomes.

Our Ideal Candidate Will

• Create order out of complexity, aligning stakeholders and engineers.

• Be empathetic and supportive of engineers and stakeholders.

• Perform well under pressure and manage time-sensitive incidents effectively.

• Demonstrate strong follow-through and accountability.

• Value frequent, high-quality releases and short feedback loops.

• Focus on solving customer problems rather than simply fulfilling requirements.

• Communicate effectively: active listening, facilitation, coaching, leading meetings.

• Bring experience in OTA or travel tech.

What You’ll Do

First Month:

• Learn systems and initiatives, both technical and operational.

• Contribute hands-on in planning, coding, reviews, and releases.

• Build relationships and understand each team member’s expertise.
  

By Three Months:

• Actively contribute to roadmap prioritization.

• Monitor engineering processes to identify and address common bottlenecks.

• Begin regular 1:1 conversations with engineers to support their growth.

• Contribute to hiring and building a strong, capable team.
  

By Six Months:

• Own iteration planning and influence roadmap.

• Implement improvements to enhance the team’s effectiveness and efficiency.

• Develop intuition for project complexity

• Actively manage and coach the engineering team.