About the job
We are looking for a talented Back-End Software Engineer to join our Hopper Technology Solutions group and help create the travel experience.
In this role, you’ll collaborate with a cross-functional team of exceptional engineers, designers, and product managers to develop and deliver innovative features that elevate our products. You will also play a key role in supporting our partners, ensuring we can scale our joint ventures seamlessly and effectively.
What we're looking for
You’re passionate about building high-quality software and take pride in owning your work from concept to delivery. You thrive in fast-paced environments and excel at identifying the critical requirements needed to launch while balancing iterative improvements for long-term success.
If you love creative problem-solving, delivering results quickly, and contributing to a team that’s transforming the travel industry, we’d love to hear from you!
Our tech stack
- Our solutions are obviously a distributed system, which is operated in GCP, using a mix of database technologies. -- We use GKE for workload orchestration
- Our backend services are implemented in Scala, frontend is web (desktop and mobile) using react and typescript
What would your day-to-day look like:
- Design, build, and operate highly scalable APIs and full-stack solutions impacting the lives of millions of travelers
- Build delightful back-end features in a fast-paced, experiment-heavy (AB testing), data-driven and AGILE product lifecycle
- Conduct code reviews to ensure our codebases meet and exceed high-quality standards and best practices across the organization
- Operate autonomously but work closely with your fellow engineers as well as designer/PM to ensure high alignment
- Being part of the round table around design discussions, and product discussions, have the chance to mentor other peers as need be
- Our group operates with very few meetings and emphasizes strong alignment and asynchronous decision-making.
An ideal candidate has:
- A natural drive to fearlessly deep dive into an unknown code base while keeping their eyes on the goal to deliver results fast
- Strong product thinking: their conception of quality is anchored in the customer
- Experience with, or a willingness to learn, distributed system development in Scala
- A capacity to build robust systems being able to handle large scale of both transactions and users
Perks of working with us:
- Well-funded and proven startup with large ambitions, competitive salary and the upsides of pre-IPO equity packages.
- Unlimited PTO.
- Carrot Cash travel stipend.
- Access to co-working space on demand through FlexDesk AND Work-from-home stipend.
- Please ask us about our very generous parental leave, much above industry standards!.
- Entrepreneurial culture where pushing limits and taking risks is everyday business.
- Open communication with management and company leadership.
- Small, dynamic teams = massive impact.
- 100% employer paid Medical, Dental and Vision coverage for employees.
- Access to Disability & Life insurance.
- Health Reimbursement Account (HRA).
- DCA/ FSA and access to 401k plan.
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What We Do
Hopper is the smart way to book travel on your phone. Combining massive amounts of data and advanced machine learning algorithms, Hopper predicts and analyzes airfare and accommodation to save users money and enable them to travel more often.
Why Work With Us
Hopper was founded by a small group of big thinkers who knew that big-data and smart technology could help us solve the tricky problems that travel planning poses. Today, we are 300+ developers, designers, data scientists, creatives, travel junkies — and one dog — doing just that.
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