Senior Frontend Engineer - Payments (Micro-frontend, React)

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Athens

Reporting To: Ismayil Hasanov

Description

YOUR JOURNEY STARTS HERE...

About WeTravel

Travel gives people new experiences and brings them together, sometimes in life-changing ways. That’s especially the case for group travel and multi-day travel where the trip participants (travellers) get to really immerse themselves. Passionate travel organizers make this magic happen and WeTravel is here to support those travel companies. We help them publish their trip offerings, generate leads and follow through to convert them to bookings, process payments around the world, pay suppliers/vendors, and digitize their operations. This helps multi-day travel organizers get more bookings, save time, and save money.

OUR VALUES

This position presents the opportunity to work in a business-critical role in a rapidly growing company. You will also uphold our four core values:

Be the solution - take ownership, drive collaboration

Be resourceful - strive for new wins every day

Be honest - default to transparency

Be respectful - treat others like you want to be treated

About The Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Frontend Engineer to join our payments team and guide the charge in crafting exceptional user interfaces. If you possess an in-depth command of the React framework, a discerning eye for design, and a strong commitment to code quality, we want to hear from you.

This role presents an opportunity to be a key member of our agile, cross-functional team of 9-10 professionals, where you will play a pivotal role in delivering cutting-edge digital solutions.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate effectively within an agile framework, participating in the end-to-end application lifecycle.
• Engage with modern technologies and libraries within a microservices architecture to tackle intricate obstacles.
• Collaborate closely with backend developers to smoothly integrate user-facing components with server-side rationality.
• Produce immaculate, high-quality code, while also prototyping solutions, troubleshooting issues, and optimizing performance.
• Develop automated tests to ensure robustness, meet business requirements, and facilitate regression testing.
• work closely with payment service providers and implement complex payment flows
• build robust and secure payment user interfaces that handle real-time transactions
• implement and maintain PCI compliance requirements on the frontend
  
  
  

If you are interested to learn more about our tech stack, check out our stackshare.io profile!

Preferred Experience

Preferred Experience

• Proven track record of developing and deploying high-quality web applications using HTML5, CSS3/LESS/SASS, and JavaScript (ES6).
• Proven expertise in guiding frontend web frameworks such as React, AngularJS, or Vue.js. Solid foundation in object-oriented software design and development, employing languages like Ruby, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Java, or Go.
• Solid understanding of Computer Science fundamentals, algorithms, and data structures. Exceptional problem-solving skills and clear communication abilities, both written and verbal.
• Experience integrating multiple payment service providers (e.g., Stripe).
• Strong understanding of payment flows, authentication methods (3DS), and checkout optimization.
• Experience handling sensitive payment data and implementing PCI DSS requirement.
  
  
  

Desirable Skills

• Experience thriving in an Agile Software Development environment.
• Familiarity with containerized applications (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker) on major Cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP).
• Exposure to both relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) and non-relational databases (e.g., MongoDB, Neo4j).
  
  
  

Valued Additions

• Notable contributions to open-source projects within our tech-stack.
• Proficiency in UX design to complement technical expertise.
  
  
  

Join our team and be a driving influence in shaping the future of digital experiences. Bring your expertise to the table and contribute to the success of complex projects that push the boundaries of frontend engineering.

Job Benefits

• Attractive compensation.
• Unlimited Paid Time Off!
• Annual team off site.
• Access to Headspace, ensuring piece of mind and well being
• Maternity and Paternity benefits even for Contractors - wherever you are in the world.
• The latest Apple tech you need to be successful.
• A'Dam Program for you to visit us in Amsterdam for 2-4 weeks every year.