Senior Software Engineer, Backend

We’re looking for a Senior Backend Developer to join our growing fintech team!  Within our team you will have the opportunity to deliver an outsized impact for the company on one of the company’s most critical roadmaps.

As a Sr. Software Engineer you will be directly responsible for designing, implementing, deploying and operating the complex backend systems that power our integrations!

What would your day-to-day look like:

• Iterate on features in an agile manner using Scala (no prior experience required) and technologies like GCP, OpenAPI, BigQuery, Pub/Sub among others.
• Decide how to best build core systems in the context of our microservices architecture
• Ship your first code in days, iterating on features in an agile manner
• 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

An ideal candidate has:

• 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
• Excelled in cross-functional teams, working fluidly with Product Managers, Data Scientists, Frontend Engineers, and other highly skilled specialists
• A passionate focus on quality, writing testable code that performs and scales
• The ability to work with minimal guidance, be proactive and to handle uncertainty, ambiguity and the challenge of quickly evolving goals
• Prior cloud experience
• Working with Scala and its libraries
• Prior travel or eCommerce experience
• Experience and desire to contribute to front ends as a FS engineer is a plus, especially React web front ends

Perks and benefits of working with us:

• Well-funded and proven startup with large ambitions, competitive salary and upsides of pre-IPO equity packages.
• Hopper covers 100% of the premiums for group insurance plan.
• Hopper offers life, short term and long term disability coverage.
• HSA that covers eligible medical and dental expenses.
• All employees and dependents have access to Dialogue’s telemedicine services, anytime, anywhere.
• All employees have access to an RRSP plan with automatic pre-tax withdrawals per pay.
• Please ask us about our very generous parental leave, much above industry standards!.
• Unlimited PTO.
• Carrot Cash travel stipend.
• Access to co-working space on demand through FlexDesk AND 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.

Compensation

The yearly total compensation for this position ranges from 150 000$ to 330 000$ CAD. Base salary will be determined by candidates’ relevant qualifications, knowledge, skills and work experience. Total compensation will include a solid base salary and will also include equity (options / RSUs), potentially a sign-on bonus and other potential incentives as per the “perks and benefits” section. Compensation will be determined by candidates’ relevant qualifications, knowledge, skills and work experience. Total compensation will include a solid base salary and will also include equity (options / RSUs), sign-on bonus and other potential incentives

More about Hopper

At Hopper, we are on a mission to become the leading travel platform globally – powering Hopper’s mobile app, website and our B2B business, HTS (Hopper Technology Solutions). By leveraging massive amounts of data and advanced machine learning algorithms, Hopper combines its world-class travel agency offering with proprietary fintech products to bring transparency, flexibility and savings to travelers globally. We have developed several unique fintech solutions that address everything from pricing volatility to trip disruptions – helping people travel better and save more on their trips.

The Hopper platform serves hundreds of millions of travelers globally and continues to capture market share around the world. Ranked the third largest online travel agency in North America, the Hopper app has been downloaded over 120 million times and has become largely popular among younger travelers – with 70% of its users being Gen Z and millennials.

While everyone knows us as the Gen Z and Millennial travel app, Hopper has evolved to become much more than that. In recent years, we’ve grown into a global travel agency and travel fintech provider that powers some of the world’s largest brands.

Through HTS, our B2B division, the company supercharges its partners’ direct channels by integrating our fintech products on their sites or powering end-to-end travel portals. Today, our partners include leading travel brands like Capital One, Nubank, Air Canada and many more.

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