Remote (Global)

Hopper is hiring a Staff Backend Software Engineer - Commerce Foundations (100% Remote - Brazil)

Responsibilities

  • Architectural Strategy: Move beyond individual features to design the underlying patterns for booking flows, checkout journeys, and multi-tenant configurations.
  • Technical Stewardship: Define the "North Star" for our Scala-based distributed systems, ensuring our move toward global scale is met with robust, maintainable patterns.
  • Multi-Tenant Excellence: Lead the evolution of our platform to support "configuration over customization," allowing partners to launch world-class experiences with zero-touch engineering.
  • Mentorship & Influence: Raise the bar for the entire engineering org by conducting deep-dive design reviews, mentoring senior engineers, and fostering a culture of high-ownership and asynchronous decision-making.

Requirements

  • Technical Fearlessness: A natural drive to fearlessly deep dive into an unknown, complex code base to untangle logic and implement elegant abstractions while keeping eyes on the goal to deliver results fast.
  • Foundational Product Thinking: Strong product thinking: your conception of quality is anchored in the customer, but you understand that a great experience is built on a stable, predictable commerce engine.
  • Mastery of Distributed Systems: Deep experience with (or a proven ability to rapidly master) distributed system development in Scala. You understand the trade-offs of consistency, availability, and latency in a global environment.
  • Multi-Tenant Mindset: You prioritize "configuration over customization," building modular systems that support N partners with minimal manual intervention.
  • Pragmatic Vision: You can distinguish between what has to be right from the start and what can be iterated on, balancing long-term health with the need for speed.

Benefits

  • Well-funded and proven startup with large ambitions
  • Competitive salary and the upsides of pre-IPO equity packages.
  • Carrot Cash travel stipend.
  • Hopper will cover 100% of the employee premiums for EOR-offered health, dental, life and short term disability insurances with SulAmerica.
  • Hopper offers employees in Brazil monthly meal vouchers
  • Very generous parental leave
  • Flexdesk All Access Pass & 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.

Team

Structure: cross-functional team of exceptional engineers, designers, and product managers

Additional Information

  • 100% Remote
  • Flexdesk All Access Pass & Work-from-home stipend.
Required Skills
ScalaFunctional ProgrammingGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)GKEPub/SubCloud SpannerReactTypeScriptDistributed SystemsAPI DesignSystem ArchitecturePerformance OptimizationMicroservicesEvent-Driven Architecture
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Hopper
Hopper is a leading travel platform that powers its mobile app, website, and B2B business (HTS) using data and machine learning. It offers travel agency services and proprietary fintech products like Cancel for Any Reason and Flight Disruption Assistance. Hopper serves hundreds of millions of travelers globally and partners with major brands like Capital One, Air Canada, and Uber through its HTS division to integrate fintech and travel inventory into their direct channels.
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Posted 2 months ago