Staff Software Engineer

ABOUT WEROAD: CONNECTING PEOPLE, CULTURES, AND STORIESFounded in 2017, WeRoad is a fast-growing startup that is disrupting the travel industry in Italy, Spain, UK, Germany, France and SwitzerlandWith 200 team members and 3K Travel Coordinators, we’re a community of travelers who turn every trip into a life-changing experience. We connect like-minded millennials and send them on adventures to 300+ destinations worldwide.We're on a mission to design and deliver experiences worth living and sharing, through rewriting the rules of the travel industry.Sounds exciting? Before you apply, please read through our Cultural Manifesto.ABOUT THE ROLEJOB TITLE: Staff Engineer - FullstackLOCATION: Full remote (Italy, Spain, UK, France or Germany) or Hybrid (Milan).TYPE OF CONTRACT: Permanent, full timeSALARY RANGE: 55-70K + BONUSOur Digital Product team, self-branded the Monkeys, is growingCurious to know more about the Monkeys? Check out our blog (tech stack and what we do) and website.We are looking for an experienced Staff Engineer (Vue/Laravel/Typescript) to join the team working on our customer facing platforms (Website & CMS) to help us build cutting edge Full Stack solutions that delight customers.You’ll work across the stack with your team, on anything from our APIs to web interfaces to internal tools.You’ll be contributing to the design of new features, the architecture, and the performance of our website.What you’ll do:Support the PMs, EM 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 scalabilityHelp the team identify front-end and back-end architectural solutions based on business logic and requirements, managing the Technical ComplexityHelp 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 ImpactWhat you’ll bring to the table:You have proven experience in autonomously managing and delivering projects, stakeholders and other team members to guarantee cooperation, communication and alignment.You are fully autonomous in managing project requirements, implementation and delivery of backend/frontend solutionsYou have an outcome and product driven mindset in your solutionYou have experience in tech leadership, know when to delegate, when to manage, and when to leadYou have experience in delivery management and Agile practicesYou have experience in working with Product and Design on finding optimal solutions to business requirementsYou are already familiar and advocate in using AI in your development workflow with AI IDEs (Cursor/Copilot) and CLIs (Claude Code CLI or Gemini CLI)Technological Experience with:SEO and UI/UX on mobile and desktop applicationsVue / Nuxt (or React) and TypescriptPHP & LaravelRESTful APIs and/or GraphQLunit and integration testsSQL Postgres/Bigquery (or MySQL databases)Git, Github, Github Actions (or alternatives)Docker and managing containers in development environmentBonus points for having:Knowledge of Clean Code, Clean Architecture, SOLID principlesKnowledge of Vitest/Jest/MochaKnowledge of microservices architectureMessage distribution systems (RabbitMQ, Kafka)Experience with A/B tests and related tooling (Growthbook etc.)Knowledge of DDD and domain principlesKnowledge of NestJSYou are a member of the WeRoad Community already