Who we are💙
Here at Waitwhile we're on a mission to eliminate the 1 trillion hours people spend waiting in lines every year. Our platform combines virtual waitlists, scheduling, real-time updates, messaging, and analytics to make access to places, services, and events seamless, online or in person. Trusted by 10,000+ companies, Waitwhile has already helped over 150 million people enjoy a radically better waiting experience. Our clients include IKEA, Louis Vuitton, Costco, Delta Airlines, and thousands more. We’re just getting started, and we need your help.
The role
As a member of our Guest Journey team you’ll focus on building the user-facing product experiences that customers interact with daily. You’ll work closely with our VP of Engineering and our cross-functional engineering teams, contributing to scalable, high impact features that improve both our platform and user experience.
Our tech stack includes TypeScript and JavaScript, NodeJS, Firebase, Firestore, BigQuery, Angular and React, running on Linux in Google Cloud Platform.
While engineers may specialize deeply, Waitwhile increasingly values end-to-end product ownership and cross-stack collaboration as the organization scales. We're open to different backgrounds, whether you have a passion for backend, or if frontend holds a special place in your heart. What matters most is your drive, problem-solving acumen, and ambition to level up your skills while building something that truly makes a difference.
This position is based in Stockholm at our offices on Kungsgatan 32. We’re a hybrid company and prefer that you work from the office at least 2 days per week, as we believe the best product gets built together, live.
What you’ll do
Full engineering lifecycle including technical design, implementation, automated testing, deployment, and production monitoring.
Drive improvements to engineering best practices, tooling, and code quality.
Scalability, reliability, observability, and compliance across services and internal platforms.
Ensure systems can scale sustainably while maintaining uptime and performance under enterprise load.
Improve monitoring, logging, deployment systems, and operational tooling to support long-term platform health.
What skills you need
5+ years of experience building web applications
Solid programming skills in JavaScript/TypeScript, React or Angular and Node.js.
Cloud hosting and operations in GCP
Comfort in collaborating across the stack to support complete product experiences
Great communication skills, comfortable explaining complex concepts to cross-functional teams
A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
Bonus Skills & Attributes:
Previously worked at a startup or on a SaaS product
Exposure to Firebase, Firestore and/or BigQuery
Familiarity with distributed systems, performance tuning, and infrastructure tooling
A great place to work❤️
We want Waitwhile to be an incredible place to work. We offer great benefits and perks, flexible working hours and lots of interesting challenges. We believe in making work fun and rewarding and care about your development and are committed to your success. Join Waitwhile at this exciting stage and help shape both our future and your own.
Waitwhile has a positive, diverse, and supportive culture—we look for people who are curious, inventive, and work to be a little better every single day. We aim to be smart, humble, hardworking and, above all, collaborative. If this sounds like a good fit for you, what are you waiting for? Apply for this job!
