Senior Backend Engineer

About the Role

We’re looking for a seasoned Senior Backend Engineer to join our Flights OTA team at Wego. You’ll be part of a core subteam responsible for building our next-generation B2B API platform — powering millions of travelers through OTA and travel partners worldwide.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll architect and deliver high-performance, secure APIs for real-time flight search and booking. You’ll work across product, data, and partner engineering teams to create scalable, resilient services that meet the demands of high-volume, low-latency travel commerce.

Your work will span from architecting robust request / response flows and implementing authentication and rate-limiting, to ensuring data consistency, resilience, and observability in a high-volume, low-latency environment.

In short, our ideal candidate has a deep empathy for both end users and API consumers, sets and upholds high standards for exceptional API documentation, and operates with decisive ownership and high agency.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs.
• Participate in system architecture discussions to design efficient, maintainable, and future-proof services.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code while adhering to industry best practices and internal standards.
• Collaborate with Product, and Data teams to understand requirements and deliver effective technical solutions across the entire customer journey.
• Improve code quality by implementing unit tests, automation, and conducting thorough code reviews.
• Optimize backend systems for performance, scalability, and reliability to handle the demands of a global customer base.
• Debug and resolve production issues quickly to minimize the impact on users and ensure high availability.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and propose innovative solutions to enhance systems and processes.
• Create and maintain documentation such as RFCs to improve communication across the organization.

Required qualifications

In addition, our ideal candidates are expected to :

Note : The following details describe the department and role for internal reference. Location : Ho Chi Minh City. Employment type : Full-time. Brand : Wego.

Contact Ali Memar — Talent Partner – People

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