About us

Founded in 2015 in Athens, Greece, Welcome redefines the way people travel by going above and beyond the commoditized transfer service and being the first company to deliver a complete, personalised, in-destination travel experience. From the moment a traveler arrives at a new destination, until their return journey home, Welcome accommodates all their travel needs, including transfers, sightseeing trips, and local information, in the easiest, friendliest, and most personalised way possible. Welcome's drivers are experts in the area and share their local know-how to make travellers feel at home wherever they are. The company has also introduced contactless rides, thorough cleaning protocols, and protective equipment to make every journey safe.

Being a travel tech startup, Welcome continues to grow and scale its operations and is quickly becoming a global category leader for in-destination travel services.

One of the highest-rated global transportation companies with a rating of 4.9/5 stars 194 destinations with a goal to reach 350 by 2024 Over 2,000 travel partners including 1,000 hotels, numerous vacation rentals, and travel agents, adding 50+ new ones every month Over 1.5 Million happy travelers every year

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The Team

We are a group of vibrant diverse people who love traveling and never settle on quality. Each one of us didn’t join Welcome by chance, and believes deeply in what Welcome is trying to achieve, so we work relentlessly to make that happen. We challenge common logic, focus on design, put simplicity and usability first, and create memorable experiences. We keep learning and exploring better ways to serve our community and grow personally and professionally in our respective fields. We stay humble along the way, with a “pay it forward” mentality, but with big and bold goals.

About the role

Our Engineers are a core part of our business, transforming our vision and mission from words to actual product so travelers, drivers, and partners can actually use our services.

The tech infrastructure and all the code that runs on production servers is the beating heart of Welcome and this role holds a key figure in proceeding with the necessary enhancements and changes to provide a flawless experience to the user.

Our full stack approach the last 18 months has provided us with great results. Our engineers are mostly back-end oriented working on logic, APIs and databases while at the same time they can build functional UI on React, with existing pre-designed & built components. When we have new UI Components and front-end / UI gets more, a dedicated front-end developer will be working along with you to ship the final result.

Our Tech Stack

Ruby Posgtresql Rails Framework Elastic Search JSONApi Testing with Minitest Millions of Background jobs running on Sidekiq Frontend Tooling (webpack, Babel 7, ESLint, Prettier) with React & Preact components Custom E2E framework using WebdriverIO, Cucumber.js

Responsibilities

Develop and improve application features for our core products using industry best practices. Develop RESTful & Tested APIs with JSONapi and document them in Swagger Re-factor, maintain and upgrade existing code. Work on your Pull Requests comments and review other engineers code. Collaborate with the Product Management team to ensure feature technical feasibility and trade-offs between requirements and implementation. Participate your team's ceremonies (planning, kick-off meetings, retrospectives & demos)