Responsibilities
- 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.
Nice to Have
- 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.
Work Arrangement
Remote (Worldwide)
Additional Information
- You might not be the right fit if your payments expertise is limited to high-level integrations like Stripe Checkout.
- You might not be the right fit if you are hesitant to take full ownership of mission-critical money movement or participate in the on-call rotation when systems fail.
- You might not be the right fit if you prioritize greenfield development over the complex challenge of scaling and refining an existing system with significant transaction volume.
- You might not be the right fit if you are looking for a siloed IC position without the need for cross-functional collaboration or product-level discovery.
- You might not be the right fit if you require a rigid, pre-defined roadmap; we prefer to sharpen our strategy and direction as we scale the team.
