[Hiring] Senior Backend Software Engineer @Hopper

Role Description

We are looking for a Sr backend software engineer to help build out a world-class travel portal for users as part of our Hopper Technology Solutions group (HTS).

You will work as part of a cross-functional team of exceptional engineers, designers and product managers to bring new world-class travel portals, rapidly bringing new features to market with best-in-class support for our partners.

A successful candidate loves to build and demonstrates high ownership about outcomes, and constantly looks for and finds creative ways to deliver quality results quickly. They can distinguish between what has to be right from the start and what can be iterated on.

Tech stack:

• Our backend systems are written in Scala, and we use a suite of GCP services
• Our frontends are web apps using React + TypeScript

What would your day-to-day look like:

• Design, build and operate API and full-stack solutions
• Operate autonomously but work closely with your fellow engineers as well as designer/PM to ensure high alignment
• Explore engineering improvements for the team and the product
• Collaborate cross-functionally with the product team, other Hopper teams and external partner teams

Our group operates with very few meetings and emphasizes strong alignment and asynchronous decision making.

Qualifications

• 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

Benefits

• 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
• 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