Tech Lead – Flights Booking

Wego; Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta; On-site; IDR 100.000.000 - 200.000.000; Full time

Job summary

A leading travel technology company is seeking a Team Lead for the Flights Booking domain in Jakarta. This role involves combining technical depth with product engineering leadership to create a scalable and customer-friendly booking experience. You will lead a multidisciplinary team, optimize business impact, and drive technology strategy. Ideal candidates have over 7 years in software engineering and proven technical leadership skills, along with a strong understanding of product and system architecture. This role offers opportunities for personal growth and a collaborative work environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software engineering, including 2+ years in technical leadership roles.
• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms.
• Experience with CI/CD practices and languages like Java or Go.

Responsibilities

• Co-create product strategy and roadmaps with stakeholders.
• Lead and mentor the engineering team in a collaborative environment.
• Drive team productivity through coaching and support.

Skills

Software engineering

Technical leadership

AI fluency

Collaboration

Empathy

Problem-solving

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

PostgreSQL

Redis

Java

React

Job description

Summary

We are seeking a Team Lead for the Flights Booking domain, owning mission‑critical booking flows that power Wego’s OTA. This role combines technical depth with product engineering leadership, working across Product, Design, Business, and Data to co‑create a reliable, scalable, and customer‑friendly booking experience.

You’ll operate with high agency, driving strategy and execution while mentoring engineers and raising the bar for excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Product Engineering Leadership
  • Co‑create the product strategy and roadmap with Product and Design.
  • Optimize for business impact while improving booking reliability.
  • Operate with high agency — proactively identifying opportunities, driving decisions, and owning outcomes across engineering and product.
• Technical Leadership
  • Lead and mentor a multidisciplinary engineering team, fostering a safe and collaborative environment.
  • Shape the architecture of complex systems and get hands‑on with system design and coding.
  • Own production APIs/services with a focus on scalability, reliability, and fraud prevention.
  • Maintain system reliability through on‑call rotations and incident response for mission‑critical booking flows.
  • Ensure best practices in application security and data compliance.
• AI Fluency
  • Use modern AI coding assistants (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, Copilot) to solve large problems, stepping in mainly to guide and correct.
  • Review and validate AI output to ensure correctness, maintainability, and quality.
  • Encourage team adoption of AI tools to boost productivity and reduce toil.
• Team Development
  • Drive team productivity through coaching, facilitation, and 1:1s.
  • Hire and grow a high‑performing engineering team.
  • Actively monitor engineering processes to identify and resolve bottlenecks.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering, including 2+ years in technical leadership roles.
• Proven leadership skills with hands‑on experience in:
  • Containers (Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure).
  • Databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Cassandra).
  • Caching (Redis, Memcached).
• Strong CI/CD experience.
• Proficiency in Java, Go, or modern frontend frameworks (React, Angular, Vue).
• Familiar with monitoring/observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
• Strong understanding of system architecture, scalability, and reliability best practices.
• Track record collaborating across Product, Design, and Business.
• AI fluency: daily use of coding assistants, with the ability to review and validate output.
• Strong product mindset: turning business/customer needs into technical outcomes.

Our Ideal Candidate Will

• Create order out of complexity, aligning stakeholders and engineers.
• Be empathetic and supportive of engineers and stakeholders.
• Perform well under pressure and manage time‑sensitive incidents effectively.
• Demonstrate strong follow‑through and accountability.
• Value frequent, high‑quality releases and short feedback loops.
• Focus on solving customer problems rather than simply fulfilling requirements.
• Communicate effectively: active listening, facilitation, coaching, leading meetings.
• Bring experience in OTA or travel tech.

What You’ll Do

First Month:

• Learn systems and initiatives, both technical and operational.
• Contribute hands‑on in planning, coding, reviews, and releases.
• Build relationships and understand each team member’s expertise.

By Three Months:

• Actively contribute to roadmap prioritization.
• Monitor engineering processes to identify and address common bottlenecks.
• Begin regular 1:1 conversations with engineers to support their growth.
• Contribute to hiring and building a strong, capable team.

By Six Months:

• Own iteration planning and influence roadmap.
• Implement improvements to enhance the team’s effectiveness and efficiency.
• Develop intuition for project complexity
• Actively manage and coach the engineering team.