The Platform Engineering team’s mission is to deliver internal software solutions that drive revenue and improve the traveler experience provided by Hopjump’s externally-facing products. All members of this team take ownership and provide technical leadership across all of the internal software platforms and tools that power our traveler-facing applications. Ultimately, an ideal candidate will be able to align platform engineering activities with business objectives to ensure consistent and predictable delivery of valuable internal software solutions.

Job Function: 

• Assist in-house engineering team to better understand, migrate and integrate newly acquired codebases into our infrastructure

• Assist in-house engineering team to meet operational deadlines to ensure there is ZERO disruption of service from a site or email delivery perspective

• Documentation (writing/editing)

• Code reviews

• Requirements gathering

• Effort estimation

Must Haves:

• Experience with: Java, Python

• Version control experience (e.g Git, SVN, Mercurial)

• Level of education: Either a minimum of a Bachelor’s in Computer Science/Software Engineering/Robotics/Something-involving-programming OR lots of work experience demonstrating competency in the field (5+ years)

• Work experience: 3-7 years of relevant experience

• Willingness to work in Java and Python.

• The ability to plan out a process and execute on it on a daily basis with an emphasis on achieving measurable results

• Linux/UNIX fluency (look for “bash”, “sysadmin”)

Nice to have:

• Experience with the technologies commonly used in our environments, including:

  • Spring Boot, JUnit, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Redis, Apache Kafka, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Amazon Redshift, InfluxDB, uWSGI, Akamai Media Delivery and Airflow

• Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript/React

A successful engineer on the Platform Team at Hopjump will:

• Build cloud-based (AWS) micro-services – primarily in Java and Python

• Implement well-defined features with good test coverage and peer reviews.

• Be ready & able to use Java and Python on a daily basis!

• Strike a balance between pragmatic, timely short-term solutions and technical debt avoidance.

Things You'll Like About Hopjump:

• We value and encourage creative thinking & intellectual curiosity.

• You'll have a very clear understanding of how your work matters to the company.

• You'll find interesting new challenges every day on the forefront of online marketing.

• You'll be given the responsibility to have a big impact on and opportunities for leadership within our business from early on.

• You'll be part of a passionate team with broad skills and interests.

• We have fun! Frequent company events, lunch & learns, and occasional bingo.

• We offer competitive salaries, excellent benefits, and a relaxed work environment with plenty of perks