About the job
We are looking for a talented Front-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’re passionate about creative problem-solving, crafting robust and innovative user experiences, delivering results with speed and precision, and being part of a team revolutionizing the travel industry, we’d love to connect with you!
Our tech stack
- Our frontend is web (desktop and mobile) using react and typescript, our backend services are implemented in Scala
- Our solutions are obviously a distributed system, which is operated in GCP, using a mix of database technologies. -- We use GKE for workload orchestration
What would your day-to-day look like:
- Design and develop robust, user-centric experiences and cutting-edge travel products that make a meaningful impact on millions of travelers worldwide.
- Conduct code reviews to ensure our codebases meet and exceed high-quality standards and best practices across the organization
- Build delightful UI features in a fast-paced, experiment-heavy (AB testing), data-driven and AGILE product lifecycle
- 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
- Proven experience in developing web applications using modern JavaScript frameworks and libraries.
Perks and benefits of working with us:
- Well-funded and proven startup with large ambitions, competitive salary and upsides of pre-IPO equity packages.
- Hopper covers 100% of the premiums for group insurance plan.
- Hopper offers life, short term and long term disability coverage.
- HSA that covers eligible medical and dental expenses.
- All employees and dependents have access to Dialogue’s telemedicine services, anytime, anywhere.
- All employees have access to an RRSP plan with automatic pre-tax withdrawals per pay.
- Please ask us about our very generous parental leave, much above industry standards!.
- Unlimited PTO.
- Carrot Cash travel stipend.
- Access to co-working space on demand through FlexDesk AND Work-from-home stipend.
- Entrepreneurial culture where pushing limits and taking risks is everyday business.
- Open communication with management and company leadership.
- Small, dynamic teams = massive impact.
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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.