Hopper
Senior Backend Engineer - Lodging and Cars
US - Remote · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 20 days ago
JavaKotlinScalaDistributed SystemsAlgorithmsCode ReviewgRPCMachine LearningCommunication
About the role
- Join the Lodging and Cars Supply team at the heart of our lodging and cars business unit, where you will be instrumental in scaling a global hotel and cars ecosystem that handles high-volume, real-time transactions.
- Explore and troubleshoot existing complex codebases to deep-dive into infrastructure and resolve production issues in a distributed system environment.
- Take full ownership of the development lifecycle for new product features, from initial technical implementation and testing to production deployment.
Responsibilities
- As a senior-level individual contributor, you will navigate a complex microservices environment to deliver reliable booking fulfillment, integrate new lodging and cars partners into our core stack, and optimize system monitoring.
- Write clean, performant code in Scala or other JVM languages to maintain, evolve, and uphold rigorous engineering standards for mission-critical lodging services.
- Partner with Product Managers and Operations to decompose business requirements into technical tasks and estimate delivery timelines.
Requirements
- Strong proficiency in Scala or other JVM languages, such as Java or Kotlin, with a focus on building scalable, high-throughput services.
- Practical experience with distributed systems and service communication methods including gRPC, Pub/Sub, and REST.
- The ability to onboard quickly and handle technical ambiguity by independently exploring and executing technical plans within existing infrastructure.
Compensation
- Well-funded and proven startup with large ambitions, competitive salary and the upsides of pre-IPO equity packages.
Benefits
- 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.
- 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.
- Participate in thorough code reviews and identify opportunities to optimize scalability, performance, and system health.
Company info
- Billions of dollars worth of travel and travel fintech are sold through Hopper and HTS' channels every year.
- Our fintech products - including Cancel for Any Reason and Flight Disruption Assistance - have exceptionally strong CSAT because the terms are always clear, and customers receive instant, no-questions-asked resolutions.
- Almost 30% of our app customers purchase at least one fintech product when making a booking; and consumers are 1.6x more likely to repurchase if they add fintech to their booking vs if they booked just travel.
- Given the success of its fintech products, Hopper launched a B2B initiative, HTS (Hopper Technology Solutions), which represents more than 75% of the business.
- Through HTS, any travel provider (airlines, hotels, banks, travel agencies, etc.) can integrate and seamlessly distribute Hopper's fintech or travel inventory on their direct channels.
- As its first HTS partnership, the company partnered with Capital One to co-develop Capital One Travel, a new travel portal designed specifically for cardholders.
- Other HTS partners include Air Canada, Uber, CommBank, Nubank, Flair Airlines and many more.
- Hopper has been named the #1 most innovative company in travel by Fast Company Hopper has been downloaded over 120 million times and continues to have millions of new installs each month.
- Hopper is now the #3 largest online travel agencies in North America and 70% of our app customers are Gen-Z and millennials travelers.
- Hopper has raised over $750 million USD of private capital and is backed by some of the largest institutional investors and banks in the world.
- HTS is primed to continue its growth as the leading travel ecommerce provider in a $1 trillion online shopping category.
- The Hopper app and website will also continue to be the preferred travel provider for Gen Z and Millennials.
- Come take off with us!
- At Hopper, we leverage AI-driven tools to assist our team in efficiently reviewing applications.
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