Senior Software Engineer

Backend, Payments

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Locations

Dorchester, Boston, MA, USA

Experience Level

Entry

Junior

Mid

Senior

Expert

Desired Skills

Agile

Apache Kafka

Google Cloud Platform

Scala

SQL

Kubernetes

Requirements

6+ years experience thriving in backend engineering positions and delivering user experiences at scale
A strong understanding of distributed systems and how architectural decisions affect performance and maintainability
A strong understanding of site reliability and operations
A passionate focus on quality, writing testable code that performs and scales
Close collaboration with software engineers (backend and mobile), product managers, data scientists, and designers to deliver rapid value to end-users
Hopper sold around $4 billion in travel and travel fintech in 2022, up nearly 3X over 2021. In 2022, Hopper increased its revenue 2.5X year-over year
The company's bespoke fintech products, such as Flight Disruption Guarantee and Price Freeze, now represent 30-40% of Hopper's total app revenue
Given the success of its fintech products, Hopper launched a B2B initiative called Hopper Cloud in late 2021. Through this partnership program, any travel provider (airlines, hotels, banks, travel agencies, etc.) can integrate and seamlessly distribute Hopper's fintech or travel inventory. As its first Hopper Cloud partnership
Hopper partnered with Capital One to co-develop Capital One Travel, a new travel portal designed specifically for cardholders
Recognized as one of the world's most innovative companies by Fast Company four years in a row, Hopper has been downloaded over 80 million times and continues to have millions of new installs each month
Hopper has raised over $700 million USD of private capital and is backed by some of the largest institutional investors and banks in the world. Hopper is primed to continue its acceleration as the world's fastest-growing mobile-first travel marketplace

Responsibilities

Ship your first code in days, iterating on features in an Agile manner leveraging Scala and technologies like HBase, Kafka, GCP Big Query, Cloud SQL
Build robust and performant infrastructure that supports millions of dollars of revenue
Make important architectural decisions about core backend systems
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

Desired Qualifications

Backend experience with Scala, Google Cloud, Kubernetes
Experience developing B2C mobile products with millions of MAU
Experience in the Payments domain

About the job

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.

The vision of the payments team is to provide a magical and frictionless payment experience to our customers. We will do this by supporting all the major payment methods (‘unlocking choice’), optimizing our payment stack (‘frictionless payments’), and unifying and powering all payments flows at Hopper (Flights, Hotels, Homes, Rental Cars, Attractions & more) as well as our Hopper Cloud offering (Whitelabel solution). Our long term vision is to remove any financial barriers to travel and truly make travel accessible to everyone. It’s cheaper, better and easier to purchase travel with Hopper!

In this role, you’ll be working alongside a team of talented engineers and partner with product, design, and data science to prioritize, estimate, and implement new product features in an Agile environment.

Minimum Qualifications

6+ years experience thriving in backend engineering positions and delivering user experiences at scale
A strong understanding of distributed systems and how architectural decisions affect performance and maintainability
A strong understanding of site reliability and operations
A passionate focus on quality, writing testable code that performs and scales
Close collaboration with software engineers (backend and mobile), product managers, data scientists, and designers to deliver rapid value to end-users

Preferred Qualifications

Backend experience with Scala, Google Cloud, Kubernetes
Experience developing B2C mobile products with millions of MAU
Experience in the Payments domain

Responsibilities

Ship your first code in days, iterating on features in an Agile manner leveraging Scala and technologies like HBase, Kafka, GCP Big Query, Cloud SQL
Build robust and performant infrastructure that supports millions of dollars of revenue
Make important architectural decisions about core backend systems
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

More about Hopper

At Hopper, we are on a mission to become the world’s best — and most fun — place to book travel. By leveraging massive amounts of data, advanced machine learning algorithms, Hopper combines its world-class travel agency offering with proprietary fintech products to help customers spend less and travel better. Ranked the third largest online travel agency in North America, the app has been downloaded nearly 80 million times and continues to gain market share globally.

Here are just a few stats that demonstrate the company’s recent growth:

- Hopper sold around $4 billion in travel and travel fintech in 2022, up nearly 3X over 2021. In 2022, Hopper increased its revenue 2.5X year-over year.

- The company’s bespoke fintech products, such as Flight Disruption Guarantee and Price Freeze, now represent 30-40% of Hopper’s total app revenue.

- Given the success of its fintech products, Hopper launched a B2B initiative called Hopper Cloud in late 2021. Through this partnership program, any travel provider (airlines, hotels, banks, travel agencies, etc.) can integrate and seamlessly distribute Hopper’s fintech or travel inventory. As its first Hopper Cloud partnership,

- Hopper partnered with Capital One to co-develop Capital One Travel, a new travel portal designed specifically for cardholders.

- Recognized as one of the world’s most innovative companies by Fast Company four years in a row, Hopper has been downloaded over 80 million times and continues to have millions of new installs each month.

- Hopper has raised over $700 million USD of private capital and is backed by some of the largest institutional investors and banks in the world. Hopper is primed to continue its acceleration as the world’s fastest-growing mobile-first travel marketplace.

Come take off with us!

1,001-5,000 employees

Website

Travel recommendations app

Company Overview

Hopper is on a mission to become the world’s best — and most fun — place to book travel. By leveraging massive amounts of data, advanced machine learning algorithms, Hopper combines its world-class travel agency offering with proprietary fintech products to help customers spend less and travel better.

Benefits

Competitive salary
Stock options
Unlimited PTO
WeWork All Access Pass OR Work-from-home stipend
Open communication with management
Small, dynamic teams = massive impact
Medical, dental, vision, disability & life insurance plans
401k

Company Core Values

Customer obsession
Speed & innovation
Lower prices
Grow revenue