Minimum qualifications

2+ years experience thriving in backend engineering positions, delivering user experience at scale

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

A strong understanding of site reliability and operations

Experience working with GDS providers, a plus

Excels in cross-functional teams, working fluidly with Product Managers, Data Scientists, Mobile Engineers, and other highly skilled specialists

A passionate focus on quality, writing testable code that performs and scales

About the job

A stellar opportunity to have a massive impact on the future of Hopper's travel technology! As a Software Engineer on the Hopper Cloud team, you'll be contributing to efforts to distribute Hopper's innovative Fintech products across new platforms. You will be directly responsible for designing, implementing, and deploying the complex backend systems that power Hopper's cloud distribution platform.

Responsibilities

• Build robust and performant infrastructure that supports millions of dollars of revenue.
• Ship your first code in days, iterating on features in an Agile manner leveraging Scala and GCP native technologies (e.g. Spanner, PubSub, Kubernetes Engine, Bigtable)
• Make important architectural decisions about core backend systems
• 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

Benefits

• Well-funded and proven startup with large ambitions, competitive salary and stock options
• Unlimited PTO
• WeWork All Access Pass OR 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
• 100% employer paid medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance plans
• Access to a 401k 

More about Hopper

Today, Hopper is best known as a travel app. We're going to do about $1B in sales this year and weathered the COVID storm better than anyone expected. We just raised $170M from Goldman Sachs and Capital One, and inked a deal to be the exclusive travel provider for Capital One Travel.

We owe our success, in large part, to a proprietary suite of data-driven and risk-based financial services that we have developed that complement a customer's trip-purchasing experience. One example is Price Freeze, where our customers are able to purchase a financial option in the app to lock in any price that they see, on any item, for as short as 1 hour or as long as 21 days with Hopper taking the risk on the other side of the trade.

Now we're laying the groundwork for continued expansion in 2021 by adding great people to our team who can help us compete with the travel giants.

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