Job Description
This is a remote position.
Wanderlog is hiring a
full-time engineer
to help build and scale our web and mobile travel planning products. This is a permanent, full-time role reporting to the co-founders at Wanderlog.
Role details
Employment type:
Full-time
Location:
Remote — United States
Reports to:
Co-founders
Salary range:
$70,000 - $100,000 USD, depending on experience
About Wanderlog
Wanderlog helps make leisure travel easier. We believe that travel makes the world better, and are building tools that lower the bar to it.
Our core product, built starting in 2019, is a travel planning app, but we’re also helping travelers book hotels (without hidden fees), providing them with information through pages such as best attractions and restaurants, and more.
We’re a small, engineering- and product-driven team building tools used by travelers worldwide.
Wanderlog was founded by twin brothers
Peter Xu
(ex-Stripe, McKinsey) and
Harry Yu
(ex-Google), who previously built successful travel products before starting Wanderlog.
What you'll do
As an engineer, you’ll be responsible for owning portions of the product. You’ll be expected to:
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.
What you might work on
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.
What it's like to work here
We’re an engineering- and product-heavy team. A typical week involves talking to users, prioritizing tasks, designing in Figma, and continuously building and shipping improvements.
Our values include putting travelers first, owning the product end-to-end, treating teammates with respect, and moving fast by being thoughtful about what we build.
We believe work should fit into your life. We also hold twice-annual travel off sites to collaborate more closely and enjoy visiting new places together.
Hiring process
Two short asynchronous programming challenges, including an automated coding assessment
A live coding interview with one of the founders
A half-day final-round virtual onsite conducted via video call
Requirements
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. We quickly evaluate libraries and tools that could help our product, and variously use Redis, Elasticsearch, and Python as needed too.
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.
Benefits
Medical
Vision
Dental
FSA or HSA plans
Paid sick leave