Wanderlog is a technology company focused on making leisure travel easier through innovative travel planning tools. They are seeking a Full-Stack Software Engineer to build and scale their web and mobile products, contributing to feature development and infrastructure improvements.
Responsibilities:
- Build new features on our website and mobile app. (Our stack is Javascript (Typescript): modern React on the web, React Native on mobile, and Node.js/Express on the server.)
- Design and decide what to build based on what would help travelers and drive growth. You won’t be handed a spec; you’ll be coming up with it!
- Build data pipelines to crawl, process, and synthesize data from various sources around the web
- Write tests and build out engineering infrastructure. Our code is fully typed (Typescript) and tested
- Debug and fix bugs and scale the infrastructure as it grows
- Review code written by other engineers
- Be fast and nimble: figure out the best way to build new features at the lowest cost in time and future technical debt
- New, user-friendly hotel booking interfaces that make finding a place to stay easier
- AI-powered tools that read articles and watch videos for you and summarize the places they mention
- Improvements to our React Native mobile app so that it runs faster on slower Android phones
- A Chrome extension to let travelers quickly compare possible places to visit, airfares, and hotels
- Better invite and collaboration tools to encourage people to use Wanderlog to get more friends to join them
- A better profile page that lets travelers on Wanderlog show off where they’ve been, see how many people they’ve helped, and follow other friends and their trips
Requirements:
- Have at least 2 years of experience doing full-stack, product development work
- Are a Javascript developer comfortable with React and/or React Native
- Are a product person: you've built products end-to-end before, and really care about the people who use them
- Are comfortable with picking up various technologies for the task at hand
- Are entrepreneurial: excited about joining a small, high-growth team and talking to users, doing product and design, and wearing a variety of hats
- Love travel and believe in it as a positive force personally and for the world