Hopper is looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack to join our Fintech Ancillaries team. You will build and scale the backend systems for innovative fintech products like Cancel for Any Reason, playing a central role in Hopper's B2B strategy by creating highly available, globally-scaled systems for travel partners.
What You'll Do
- Iterate on features using Scala and React in an agile environment.
- Build core systems within our microservices architecture, leveraging technologies like GCP, OpenAPI, BigQuery, and Pub/Sub.
- Ship code quickly and continuously improve features.
- Collaborate with a diverse, cross-functional group, giving and receiving feedback for mutual growth.
- Execute on significant opportunities to help Hopper rise to the top of the travel industry.
What We're Looking For
- 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.
- Experience excelling in teams with Product Managers, Data Scientists, Frontend Engineers, and other specialists.
- A passionate focus on quality, writing testable code that performs and scales.
- Ability to work with minimal guidance, be proactive, and handle uncertainty, ambiguity, and quickly evolving goals.
- Prior cloud experience.
Nice to Have
- Experience working with Scala and/or React and its libraries.
- Prior travel or eCommerce industry experience.
- Experience in UX design, using tools like Figma.
Technical Stack
- Scala
- React
- GCP
- OpenAPI
- BigQuery
- Pub/Sub
Team & Environment
You will be part of the Fintech Ancillaries team, working within a microservices architecture. The company culture is entrepreneurial, where pushing limits and taking risks is everyday business, supported by open communication and small, dynamic teams designed for massive impact.
Benefits & Compensation
- Well-funded startup with competitive salary and pre-IPO equity packages.
- Hopper covers 100% of premiums for group health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Life, short-term and long-term disability coverage.
- Health Savings Account (HSA) for eligible medical and dental expenses.
- Access to Dialogue’s telemedicine services for all employees and dependents.
- Access to an RRSP plan with automatic pre-tax withdrawals per pay.
- Generous parental leave, much above industry standards.
- Unlimited PTO.
- Carrot Cash travel stipend.
- Access to co-working space on demand through FlexDesk and a work-from-home stipend.
Work Mode
This is a remote position.
Hopper is an equal opportunity employer.
