Senior Web Engineer, Ads

About Wego:

We’re on a mission to help people discover the real value of travel — to inspire, to give more reasons, to make it easy — for you to travel. Our company was founded back in 2005, and since then, we’ve imagined and created some of the most well-loved products for travelers all around the world.

Today, Wego is the number 1 travel metasearch engine in the Middle East. There are millions of users on Wego every month — people who travel for adventure, for work, for family and for many other reasons. That’s why we work tirelessly to make your experience of planning & booking flights, hotels and trips as seamless as possible

Summary:

Our advertising partners trust us to deliver their campaigns effectively. In this role, you will be responsible for delivering advertisements in our user-facing applications. You will also develop dashboards that help our advertisers to understand their campaigns better. If you love seeing your code make a real impact on business outcomes, this role is for you.

Key responsibilities:

• Collaborate with product and design teams to understand user requirements
• Participate in brainstorming sessions and contribute to technology discussions
• Provide feedback to team members and tackle complex problems
• Collaborate with the ad operations team to optimize ad delivery and performance
• Debug and resolve complex issues related to ad serving and rendering
• Develop and implement ad placement features within our client-facing application using React
• Build and maintain an advertiser dashboard for campaign management and performance monitoring
  
  

Our ideal candidate will:

• Have a good understanding of viewability tracking and content performance metrics
• Focus on solving customer and business problems, not just fulfilling requirements
• Have worked in e-commerce or marketplace companies
  
  

Qualifications:

• Proficiency in JavaScript, TypeScript, React.js, HTML, and CSS
• Strong understanding of modern frontend tooling (asset bundling, build tools, CSS preprocessors, linting)
• Passion for writing clean, pragmatic code
• Familiarity with version control and development environments