Tech Lead - Flights Booking

Wego; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading online travel agency in Kuala Lumpur is seeking a Tech Lead for Flights Booking. The ideal candidate will combine technical depth with product leadership, driving strategy and mentoring engineers. Responsibilities include co-creating product strategies, leading the engineering team, and ensuring system reliability. Applicants should have over 7 years in software engineering, strong CI/CD experience, and proficiency in Java or Go.

Qualifications

• Experience in leadership with hands-on technical roles.
• Proficiency in using AI coding assistants.
• Strong understanding of system architecture and scalability.

Responsibilities

• Lead a multidisciplinary engineering team.
• Co-create product strategy and roadmap.
• Drive team productivity through coaching.

Skills

Software engineering

Technical leadership

CI/CD

Java

Go

React

Education

7+ years of software engineering experience

2+ years in technical leadership

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

PostgreSQL

Redis

Job description

Tech Lead – Flights Booking

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.

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Contact: Ali Memar Talent Partner – People