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Wanderlog

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer (4+ years of experience; Canada only)

Wanderlog, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199


Note: this job posting is only for engineers located in Canada.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 2019, is a travel planning app (we’re the top-ranked trip planner on iOS and Android), but we’re also helping travelers book hotels (without hidden fees), providing them with information (through various pages on e.g., best attractions, restaurants, etc.), and more.What you’ll do:

As a senior 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.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 lowest cost in time and future technical debt.This position is a full-time role reporting to the cofounders at Wanderlog.What you might work on:

New, user-friendly hotel booking interfaces that make finding a place to stay easier.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 using Wanderlog to get more friends to join them.A 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.You may be a good fit if you:

Have at least 4 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.What’s it like to work here?

We’re an engineering and product-heavy team. A typical week’s work involves talking to users, prioritizing tasks, designing, and building and shipping them continuously.Our values include putting travelers first, owning the product end-to-end, treating teammates with respect, and moving fast by being smart about what we build and how we build it.Our hiring process

We’ll first have you do an asynchronous programming challenge. If all goes well, we’ll have a coding interview where you work on a quick program on your laptop in your preferred language. We’ll then do another coding interview and a full-day onsite.

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