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Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Fintech

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About The Job

Hoppers Hotel Cancel For Any Reason (CFAR) team is responsible for integrating our proprietary fintech offerings with some of the largest travel companies in the world as well as our own directtocustomer offerings. As such, the role is both B2C and B2B2C. Within this vertical we construct systems and build fintech offerings to scale globally, managing how to evolve and innovate on current and new offerings, and translating that to customer value and business value to Hopper as a whole. We're looking for a Senior Backend Developer to join our growing fintech team! Within our team you will have the opportunity to deliver an outsized impact for the company on one of the companys most critical roadmaps. As a Sr. Software Engineer, you will be directly responsible for designing, implementing, deploying and operating the complex backend systems that power our integrations.

What Would Your Day-to-day Look Like

• Iterate on features in an agile manner using Scala (no prior experience required) and technologies like GCP, OpenAPI, BigQuery, Pub/Sub among others.
• Decide how to best build core systems in the context of our microservices architecture.
• Ship your first code in days, iterating on features in an agile manner.
• Collaborate with a diverse group of people, giving and receiving feedback for growth.
• Execute on big opportunities, helping Hopper rise to the top of the travel industry.

An Ideal Candidate Has

• The ability to bring leading industry techniques and technologies to the table.
• A strong understanding of distributed systems and how architectural decisions affect performance and maintainability.
• Excelled in crossfunctional teams, working fluidly with Product Managers, Data Scientists, Frontend Engineers, and other highly skilled specialists.
• A passionate focus on quality, writing testable code that performs and scales.
• The ability to work with minimal guidance, be proactive and to handle uncertainty, ambiguity and the challenge of quickly evolving goals.
• Prior cloud experience.
• Working with Scala and its libraries.
• Prior travel or eCommerce experience.
• Experience and desire to contribute to front ends as a FS engineer is a plus, especially React web front ends.

Perks and benefits of working with us

• Wellfunded and proven startup with large ambitions, competitive salary and the upsides of preIPO equity packages.
• Unlimited PTO.
• Carrot Cash travel stipend.
• Access to coworking space on demand through FlexDesk AND Workfromhome stipend.
• 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.

More About Hopper

At Hopper, we are on a mission to become the leading travel platform globally powering Hoppers mobile app, website and our B2B business, HTS (Hopper Technology Solutions). By leveraging massive amounts of data and advanced machine learning algorithms, Hopper combines its worldclass travel agency offering with proprietary fintech products to bring transparency, flexibility and savings to travelers globally. We have developed several unique fintech solutions that address everything from pricing volatility to trip disruptions helping people travel better and save more on their trips.

The Hopper platform serves hundreds of millions of travelers globally and continues to capture market share around the world. The Hopper app has been downloaded over 120million times and has become largely popular among younger travelers with 70% of its users being GenZ and millennials.

While everyone knows us as the GenZ and Millennial travel app, Hopper has evolved to become much more than that. In recent years, weve grown into a travel fintech provider, commerce platform, and global travel agency that powers some of the worlds largest brands.

Through HTS, our B2B division, the company supercharges its partners direct channels by integrating our fintech products on their sites or powering endtoend travel portals. Today, our partners include leading travel brands like Capital One, Nubank, Air Canada, and many more.

Hopper has been named the #1 most innovative company in travel by Fast Company. Hopper has been downloaded over 120million 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 GenZ and millennials.

Hopper has raised over $750million 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 $1trillion online shopping category.

Compensation Range: $150K - $350K

Seniority level: MidSenior level

Job type: Fulltime

Job function: Engineering and Information Technology

Industries: Software Development

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