Senior Product Engineer - Payments Team
WeTravel · Remote · Bulgaria · Estonia · Portugal · Italy · Hungary · Poland · Spain · Lithuania ·
COMPENSATION
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Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Senior level role
- Fully remote position
- Payments domain expertise
- Ruby on Rails + Kotlin
- B2B contractor agreement
Join the Payments team at WeTravel to engineer systems that process over 150,000 transactions monthly for travel organizers worldwide. You will lead projects involving payment collection, disbursement, foreign exchange, and reconciliation while scaling the platform for tenfold growth. The team focuses on making complex financial operations seamless for users across more than 150 countries.
What you'll do
- Lead end-to-end payments projects from discovery to incident response
- Expand local digital payment methods like UPI and PIX in priority markets
- Build card issuing capabilities including ledgers and authorization flows
- Scale payment processing infrastructure to support tenfold growth
- Enhance multi-currency conversion engine across twenty plus currencies
- Partner with product teams to solve organizer and traveler challenges
- Own system reliability and participate in on-call rotation
What you'll need
- Seven plus years of product engineering experience
- Four plus years architecting complex payments systems
- Experience with PSPs, acquirers, or high-scale payment platforms
- Deep knowledge of settlement, reconciliation, and PCI compliance
- Strong backend skills in Ruby on Rails, Kotlin, Python, Go, Java, or Node.js
- Ability to build React interfaces for payment flows
- Expertise in distributed systems, ledgers, and event-driven architectures
- Production on-call experience and incident response leadership
- Proficiency with cloud infrastructure and modern CI/CD practices
Nice to have
- Direct experience launching new payment methods or PSP integrations
- Background in building or operating card issuing programs
- Experience with marketplace payments, split payments, or escrow flows
- Familiarity with BIN sponsorship and processor integrations
Stack
- React
- TypeScript
- Ruby on Rails
- Kotlin
- Kubernetes
- MongoDB
- MySQL
- Postgres
- Snowflake
How you'll work
- Fully remote work environment
- Hired into a designated country of employment
- Full-time B2B contractor agreement
- Monthly payments in USD
- Up to four weeks work from anywhere per year
What you get
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Annual team off-site events
- Cycle-to-work scheme or commuting reimbursement
- Extensive paid family leave
- Three paid volunteer days per year
- Discounted rates on hotels and flights
- Cutting-edge equipment and tools provided
- Two-week cross-functional onboarding program