Senior Product Engineer, Way
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Brand activation platform for hospitality businesses
Open for applications
Brand activation platform for hospitality businesses
21-100 employees
Open for applications
+ Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To help businesses unlock the power of brand activations.
Role
Who you are
- This is a role for an experienced, hands-on builder who cares equally about product quality and software craftsmanship.
- You should be comfortable moving from React interaction details to TypeScript services, PostgreSQL models, integrations, observability, and production operations. We use AI and coding agents as everyday development tools, with the expectation that you verify and own what ships
- 5+ years of experience building and operating customer-facing products in a high-quality software environment, with the depth and scope expected of a senior or staff-level engineer
- Strong React and TypeScript fundamentals, with production experience across browser technologies, Node.js, APIs, PostgreSQL, and serverless or managed cloud services, especially on GCP
- A track record of driving complex, end-to-end features with visible customer or business impact—not only incremental improvements and refactors
- Product sensibility: you care about UX, speed, and polish, and you speak up when something does not feel right
- Comfort working without heavy PM overhead: you help shape the problem, make tradeoffs explicit, create clarity across teams, and reduce large goals to safe, valuable increments
- A high-ownership mindset: you are a self-directed, full-lifecycle builder who takes responsibility for testing, reliability, security, observability, and what happens after launch, while raising the engineering bar for the people around you
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Product Engineer to help build the next generation of Way. You’ll work across the stack to turn ambitious product ideas into fast, polished, and reliable experiences for the brands, operators, and guests who use Way
- You’ll work closely with Product and Design to shape the problem, prototype solutions, make pragmatic technical decisions, and own features from idea through production. The work spans new product capabilities and the existing platform that serves enterprise customers every day
- Build customer-facing product capabilities across Way—from discovery and merchandising to booking, payments, the guest journey after a room is booked, reporting, and third-party integrations
- Build AI-powered functionality into the core of Way
- Work closely with Product and Design to shape ambiguous problems, prototype quickly, and iterate toward experiences that feel intuitive, responsive, and distinctly Way
- Drive complex, end-to-end features across React and Next.js frontends, TypeScript and NestJS services, PostgreSQL, and event-driven workflows
- Own a product domain or platform capability through design, implementation, testing, production release, runbook, and operational follow-through
- Develop a deep understanding of the critical workflows and operational risks, improving the existing platform while helping establish clearer boundaries, contracts, and independently deployable capabilities
Our take
Way’s brand activation platform is used by boutique hotel groups and independent hotels to curate and offer experiences & events to boost brand awareness and loyalty. The company was founded on the belief that consumers prefer spending on experiences than products.
Since its founding in 2020, Way has picked up a number of well-known hotel brands including Salt Hotels and Life House Hotels in North America. And the fact that it's already expanded to an office in Paris is a good indication of its strong growth.
Since securing major funding from Tiger Global in 2022, Way has also been adding to its executive team as it looks to expand further internationally. Plans are in motion to pivot into adjacent sectors, including retail and media, where brand activation experiences are also growing in demand.
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Company
Funding (1 round)
Nov 2022
$20m
SERIES A
Total funding: $20m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive healthcare coverage and other benefits
- Opportunities for professional growth in a fast-paced tech environment
- Stock options that offer a stake in our success
- Modern office located in the vibrant city of Austin, Texas
- Annual stipends for hotel stays and travel, allowing you to experience our partner offerings firsthand
Company HQ
Sixth Street Historic District, Austin, TX
Leadership
Michael Stocker
(Co-Founder & CEO)Founded and was CEO of skiing industry-focused digital transformation company OnlySky between 2016 and 2020. Previously worked in Government Relations for the Ridge Policy Group.
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