ABOUT HOPPER

At Hopper, we’re on a mission to build the most customer-centric travel company on earth. We are leveraging the power that comes from combining massive amounts of data and machine learning to build the world’s fastest-growing mobile first travel marketplace -- one that enables our customers to save money and travel better.

Hopper’s goal is to reduce traveler anxiety throughout all stages of the trip buying and taking process. By creating a transparent travel marketplace and unique, data-driven financial technology products focused on providing peace-of-mind, Hopper adds value along each step of the customer’s journey.

Hopper has launched several bespoke fintech products that leverage our immense first and third-party data to create products and value that do not exist elsewhere - including Refundable and Flexible Tickets and Price Freeze. Thanks to these offerings, Hopper’s revenue growth is up 112% despite the travel slowdown due to COVID-19.

With over $250M CAD in funding from leading investors in both Canada and the US, Hopper is primed to continue its acceleration to becoming the world’s fastest-growing end-to-end customer-centric travel offering.

Recognized as one of the world’s most innovative companies by Fast Company three years in a row, Hopper has been downloaded over 50 million times and sees over 1 million new installs per month. The app has received high praise in the form of mobile accolades such as the Webby Award for Best Travel App of 2019. 

Come take off with us!

THE ROLE

A stellar opportunity to have massive impact: join a growing team at a company continually redefining how people travel. As a Lead Software Engineer, you will be directly responsible for many of the innovative features we’ll be working on, whether collaborating with our outstanding design and product team or helping our data science group work on the bleeding-edge to personalize travel for our ever-expanding population of members.

IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL:

• Lead future development and technical execution for our consumer-facing, travel application, and the backend services that drive it.
• Align and drive team members towards an inspiring vision, yet stage work to deliver value incrementally.
• Deliver fast user experience for our customers, leveraging Swift, Kotlin, and Scala and technologies like HBase, Kafka, GCP Big Query, Cloud SQL.
• As a hands-on lead, you will work closely with our team of software engineers and product managers to deliver rapid value.
• Collaborate directly with the company’s technology leadership on insuring Hopper’s success
• Manage. Mentor and coach technical team members

AN IDEAL CANDIDATE HAS:

• Experience managing a cross-functional team of mobile and backend developers.
• Thrived in mobile development and delivered delightful user experience at scale
• A drive to iterate architecture in harmony with an Agile workflow
• Experience leading an Agile development team
• A love of learning and teaching

BENEFITS

• Well-funded and proven startup with large ambitions, competitive salary and stock options

• Dynamic and entrepreneurial team where pushing limits is everyday business

• 100% employer paid medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance plans

• Access to a 401k (US) or Retirement Savings Plan (Canada)