Senior Software Engineer - Backend, International Marketplace

About the job
The International Travel Agency team at Hopper is looking for a backend engineer with a professional history of owning features from the inception of an idea to the monitoring and tracking of a delivered feature. 
We’re looking for a team member who enjoys working in a microservices environment and thrives in technically complex industries like travel. The team is responsible for owning all features end to end in the user booking journey across multiple verticals, such as flights, hotels, cars, and fintech.

What would your day-to-day look like:

• Planning, investigating, and scoping out an upcoming project that the international team owns
• Writing code, reviewing code, or improving code
• Explore engineering improvements for the team and each vertical’s product 
• Working with our product operations team or product manager to talk through requirements to effectively implement a new feature
• Meeting with another developer on the international team to discuss a new feature for project planning or pair programming

An ideal candidate has:

• 5+ years of professional full-time in software engineering with a focus on full stack development
• Can lead technical conversations, and drive towards smart architecture and system design decisions.
• Works well with and enjoys working in a product-focused company with a working history of owning features throughout the development life cycle
• Communicates well not only with developers but product management and operations teams
• Experience with and likes developing in a microservices environment
• Proficiency in Scala or other JVM languages, like Java
• Skilled in various service communication methods, including gRPC, pub/sub, REST, SOAP
• Clear demonstration of leading and delivering complex, multi-month projects end-to-end
• Thrives working in technically complex industries like travel

Perks of working with us:

• Well-funded and proven startup with large ambitions, competitive salary and the upsides of pre-IPO equity packages.
• Unlimited PTO.
• Carrot Cash travel stipend.
• Access to co-working space on demand through FlexDesk AND Work-from-home stipend.
• Please ask us about our very generous parental leave, much above industry standards!.
• Entrepreneurial culture where pushing limits and taking risks is everyday business.
• Open communication with management and company leadership.
• Small, dynamic teams = massive impact.
• 100% employer paid Medical, Dental and Vision coverage for employees.
• Access to Disability & Life insurance.
• Health Reimbursement Account (HRA).
• DCA/ FSA and access to 401k plan.

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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.
Here are just a few stats that demonstrate the company’s recent growth:
Hopper sells billion worth of travel and travel fintech every year. In 2023, over 1.3 billion trips were planned through the Hopper app and our HTS partnerships. 
Our fintech products – including Price Freeze, Flexibility for Any Reason and Flight Disruption Assistance – have exceptionally strong CSAT because the terms are always clear, and customers receive instant, no-questions-asked resolutions.