ABOUT WEROAD: CONNECTING PEOPLE, CULTURES, AND STORIES

Founded in 2017, WeRoad is a fast-growing startup that is disrupting the travel industry in Italy, Spain, Switzerland, UK and also...in Germany and France!

With more than 160 team members and 2k Travel Coordinators, we are a community of travelers, united by their love for travel, adventure, and discovering faraway lands and cultures. We bring together small groups of like-minded millennials and send them on life-changing experiences to 100+ destinations all over the globe.

We're on a mission to design and deliver experiences worth living and sharing, through rewriting the rules of the travel industry.

Our Digital Product team, self-branded the Monkeys, is growing!

Curious? Scroll down this page to learn more about Digital Product (Design + Tech) at WeRoad and check out monkeys.weroad.it

And check out our Monkeys Team here! ;)

ABOUT THE ROLE

LOCATION: Full Remote, max 2hours +/- CET; max 3 hours flight from Milan (WE WILL REJECT ALL CANDIDATES THAT DO NOT FIT THESE REQUIREMENTS)
CONTRACT: Permanent
SALARY RANGE: 57,5K-65K /year

We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager (Vue/React + PHP) to join our team and help us build cutting edge back-end solutions to power our user-facing platforms (Website & Content Management System)

You’ll work across the stack with your team, on anything from our APIs to web interfaces to internal tools. No matter what you’re working on, you’ll be contributing to the design, architecture, and scale-up of our platform and will help us roll out new features.

What you’ll do:

• Support the Product Manager and the team and in developing front-end and backend solutions (end user-facing and administrative user-facing) according to UX/UI designs, guaranteeing quality and scalability

• Help the team identify front-end and back-end architectural solutions based on business logic and requirements, managing the Technical Complexity

• Help us maximize the user experience and quality of our product (you’ll work on our coolest website and CMS)

• Communicate and Collaborate with the Leadership Team, leveraging your Network to maximize the team Impact

• Take care of the Team Health, keeping an enjoyable and collaborative work environment

• Ambition, Ownership & Agility are the way you operate

• Grow yourself and the team

What you’ll bring to the table:

• You have experience in working with Product and Design on finding optimal solutions to business requirements

• You have experience in delivery management and Agile practices

• You have experience in people management and tech leadership, know when to delegate, when to manage, and when to lead

• You have experience in SEO and UI/UX on mobile and desktop applications

• You have experience with Vue / Nuxt (or React) and Typescript

• You have experience with PHP & Laravel

• You have experience with RESTful APIs and/or GraphQL

• You have experience in writing unit and integration tests

• You have good knowledge of HTML5 and CSS3

• You have good knowledge of SQL (Postgres or MySQL databases)

• You have good knowledge of git (Github, Github Actions or alternatives)

• Knowledge of Docker and managing containers in development environment

Bonus points for having:

• Knowledge of Clean Code, Clean Architecture, SOLID principles

• Knowledge of Vitest/Jest/Mocha

• Knowledge of microservices architecture

• Message distribution systems (RabbitMQ, Kafka)

• Experience with A/B tests and related tooling (Growthbook etc.)

• Knowledge of DDD and domain principles

• Knowledge of NestJS

• You are a member of the WeRoad Community already 🙂

What do we do at WeRoad?

WeRoad is made of multidisciplinary teams of Designers, Engineers, and Product Managers that work together as a team, constantly evolving our in-house developed platforms and services:

• Tour operator platform. First released in 2020, it currently enables the core processes of our Product Team such as allotment, buying functionalities, contracting with worldwide suppliers. Still WIP to unleash its full potential.
• Public website and CMS. A well performing public website,, with a custom in-house developed content and layout management system, constantly evolved to fit all the Product and Marketing needs and stay ahead of the competitors.
  
• Bookings platform. Recently released in its early first version, it is a versatile and scalable platform to manage our current and future booking processes, including the sellable items management and the public end-user frontend
• Coordinator platform. First released in 2019, with the main scope of allowing our coordinators’ community management. Still WIP to enable international scalability and new core functionalities such as tour/coordinator matching and on-tour and post-tour processes management.

Technologies we use:

We’re a fast-growing startup, which means things move fast and change a lot around here. We choose technology based on our needs and to fit our goals

These are programming languages we currently have in production:

• Typescript & Nest.js (new core platform projects), Node.js (small or legacy projects);
• Nuxt.js and Vue.js with Server Side Rendering (for all our frontends and back office platforms);
  
• PHP8 & Laravel;
  
• Tailwind.css & Buefy;
  
• Python (for our Business Intelligence pipelines);
  
• PostgreSQL (legacy on MySQL and MongoDb) and Redis;
• Service-oriented architecture with RabbitMQ as message bus;
• Terraform, Helm and Gitlab CI;
  
• Docker containers in Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform.

If you like testing new ideas, shipping new products, taking ownership of your work, and getting plenty of things done, you’ll fit in perfectly with our team.

• We are OpenSource lovers <3

What we can offer:

• Option to work in one of our European offices.WeRoad offices are based in the beating heart of Milan, Madrid, London, Chiasso, Paris and Berlin and you’ll have the chance to frequently tour around them to meet all our WeRoad people. Or alternatively, if you are based in one of these cities, come to our office as often as you wish.
• A free WeRoad trip every year to the destination of your choice. You didn't think we'd leave you hanging, did we? Become one of our Travel Coordinators and you could go abroad even more often.

• Opportunities to learn. We invest in training our employees, both on an individual basis but also as a team.

• Unlimited Holiday. You are the master of your own time. We have an unlimited holiday policy and encourage each employee to be their own entrepreneur. We also have a tradition that everyone takes at least a half-day off on their birthday.

• Fun! We schedule regular team-building events throughout the year and provide plenty of opportunities to meet our Travel Coordinators and WeRoaders.

Ready to apply?

The selection process will consist of:

• Background-based interview with 'P&C
  
• Technical interview with Tech Team
• Tech Case;
  
• Second Technical Interview based on the Tech Case.
• Wide Knowledge Interview

WeRoad is an equal opportunity: we consider for employment all applicants, regardless of their race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, family status, political affiliation, disability, and any other legally protected characteristic.

Statistically speaking, women are less likely to apply for roles where they don't fit the job description perfectly. DON'T TRY AND BE PERFECT but just go for it and send us your application regardless.

Team

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