Staff Engineer at Wego Pte

We are looking for an engineering leader to lead one of our core product teams. Join our stellar team working on next-generation TravelTech products.

To be successful in this role, you’ll need:

• Technical leadership skills in technologies including, but not limited to, Node.js, React, container technologies, and cloud technologies.
• Experience with Continuous Integration and a leaning towards Continuous Delivery.
• To design systems with scalability and reliability in mind.
• Strong communication skills in areas including, but not limited to, active listening, facilitation, running effective meetings, coaching,
• A knack for getting things done collaboratively, in partnership within Engineering and with teams from other disciplines in Wego.
• A commitment to building and scaling engineering teams.

It will be great if you have:

Familiarity with technologies we already use, like Next.js, Express, relational databases, Redis, ElasticSearch, and Terraform.

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 go. Our company was founded back in 2005, and since then, we’ve imagined and created some of the most well-loved products for travellers all around the world.

Today, Wego is used by millions of people 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 an engineering leader to lead one of our core product teams. Join our stellar team working on next-generation TravelTech products.

This position is available in both remote and in-office arrangements in our offices in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Bangalore and Lahore. For remote arrangements, we strongly prefer that you are located somewhere within the GMT+5 to GMT+9 time zones so that there is a decent overlap in working hours with the rest of the team.

What you will be doing:

• Play a leadership role in key strategic areas.
• Understand the big picture of what your team is doing and why.
• Act as a multiplier by improving the productivity of the whole team.
• Shape the broad architecture of complex systems.
• Get hands on with system design and coding.
• Consciously build a high-performing team via creating a psychologically safe environment, building trust, coaching, facilitation, and sharing context.
• Have regular 1:1s with your team members.
• Work with your partners in Product, UX, Data and other disciplines to ship major initiatives.
• Apply a DevOps mindset to social and technical aspects of work.

Location:

This position is available in both remote and in-office arrangements in our offices in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Bangalore and Lahore. For remote arrangements, we strongly prefer that you are located somewhere within the GMT+5 to GMT+9 time zones so that there is a decent overlap in working hours with the rest of the team.