Senior Platform Engineer - Travel Tech, Flexible Hybrid & PTO

Welcome Pickups; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work-from-home policy

L&D personal budget

Job summary

Welcome Pickups is seeking a senior backend engineer to lead scale and reliability for our in-destination travel platform. You will drive architecture decisions, performance improvements, and incident response across our Rails stack and data services in a cloud environment.

The role emphasizes backend systems, observability, security, and collaboration with product and infra teams to deliver scalable, safe journeys for travelers worldwide.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with backend and systems focus.
• BS or MS in Computer Science or a related field.
• Proven experience operating and scaling production systems.
• Travel, mobility or marketplace background with real-time operations.
• Strong understanding of system design and distributed systems.

Skills

System design

Distributed systems

Performance tuning

Observability

Security fundamentals

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or related

Tools

Ruby on Rails

Sidekiq

Puma

PostGIS

PostgreSQL

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure Cloud

Redis

Elasticsearch

Job description

Welcome Pickups is seeking a senior backend engineer to lead scale and reliability for our in-destination travel platform. You will drive architecture decisions, performance improvements, and incident response across our Rails stack and data services in a cloud environment.

The role emphasizes backend systems, observability, security, and collaboration with product and infra teams to deliver scalable, safe journeys for travelers worldwide.