TypeScript Infrastructure Engineer, Wander
+ Equity
Luxury vacation rentals
Open for applications
Luxury vacation rentals
101-200 employees
Open for applications
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To help people find their happy place.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of professional development experience with TypeScript
- Strong understanding of cloud architecture, preferably with AWS
- Experience using Pulumi for infrastructure-as-code
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and container orchestration
- Proficiency in working with databases, particularly PostgreSQL and Redis
- Experience with deploying and scaling LLM-based services
- Familiarity with infrastructure considerations for high-volume LLM API usage
- Experience with monorepo structures and build systems (we use Yarn, Nx, and Turbo)
- Solid understanding of CI/CD principles and implementation
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Strong communication skills and ability to work in an async environment
- Experience with version control systems (Git) and CI/CD pipelines
Desirable
- Experience with microservices architecture
- Knowledge of security best practices in cloud environments
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures and message brokers (e.g., NATS, Kafka)
- Experience with performance tuning and optimization of distributed systems
- Contributions to open-source projects
- Relevant cloud certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Developer, CKA)
What the job involves
- As a TypeScript Infrastructure Engineer at Wander, you'll leverage your strong TypeScript skills to develop and maintain the robust infrastructure that powers our travel platform
- You'll work on challenging projects that ensure high performance, reliability, and scalability of our systems, directly impacting our users' experiences and our ability to grow rapidly
- Develop and maintain our infrastructure-as-code using Pulumi with TypeScript
- Design and implement cloud architecture on AWS
- Optimize our Kubernetes clusters for efficient container orchestration
- Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines for our TypeScript-based services
- Implement monitoring and metrics systems using TypeScript where applicable
- Design and maintain infrastructure for efficient LLM model serving and scaling
- Implement solutions for managing LLM API usage, caching, and cost optimization
- Contribute to our monorepo structure and build system optimization
- Develop scripts and tools for automating operational tasks
- Collaborate with other engineers to improve system observability and performance
- Write clean, documented, and well-tested infrastructure code
- Stay updated with the latest cloud technologies and infrastructure best practices
Our take
While AirBnB disrupted the hotel and hospitality industries, the novelty has worn off. Surprise fees, sub-par cleaning, uncomfortable beds and unreliable photos are just some of the factors which have taken the shine off the sharing economy model. Built as a response to these issues, Wander aims to return the luxury to the vacation and short stay sector.
Wander provides a tech-first approach to letting short stays that might be familiar to anyone using AirBnB or another competitor, but the comparisons stop there. Wander directly owns and controls the properties on its portfolio, allowing it to ensure a high standard of quality and excellent customer service for its guests. Having booked over 2,000 nights of accomodation and with a 95% satisfaction rating over 2022, it seems to have found a strong market niche to grow into.
After raising an impressive amount of capital in 2022, Wander has secured a significant credit facility from Credit Suisse. It will use this to increase its property portfolio across the United States with an aim to put a property within 3 hours drive of 80% of the population. It is also rolling out a facility to allow guests to purchase part ownership of the homes they stay in, allowing them to diversify their own financial portfolios. Wander is in a strong position to capture a large segment of the luxury market.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2022
$5m
EARLY VC
Feb 2022
$20m
SERIES A
Total funding: $32m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits covered 100% by Wander
- 401k
- Equity in Wander
- Entirely remote and async (no meetings)
Company HQ
Civic District, Austin, TX
Articles
Leadership
Previously Co-Founder & CEO of Coder. Before that was Fellow at The Thiel Foundation.
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