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Senior Backend Engineer - Programmatic Merchandising
HopperSan Francisco, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 20 Jan 2023
About the role
About the Job
Join a rapidly growing company that is continuously redefining how people travel! The Programmatic Merchandising is a relatively young team helping deliver the most relevant content to users when they open the app.
Within the Programmatic Merchandising business unit, our Mobile Landing Content team is focused on providing the tools and frameworks necessary to deliver content to users on the home screen. We’re building a server-driven UI framework, unifying analytics across the organization, and totally own the home screen, which is the first thing users see when they launch the Hopper app. As a senior backend engineer on the team, you’ll be responsible for improving existing high traffic services as well as creating new ones to support multiple teams, as well as designing innovative solutions to problems on a very important part of the app, the home screen. You’ll collaborate with a tight team of talented engineers to break down complex problems, experiment quickly, and build things at internet scale.
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.
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Join a rapidly growing company that is continuously redefining how people travel! The Programmatic Merchandising is a relatively young team helping deliver the most relevant content to users when they open the app.
Within the Programmatic Merchandising business unit, our Mobile Landing Content team is focused on providing the tools and frameworks necessary to deliver content to users on the home screen. We’re building a server-driven UI framework, unifying analytics across the organization, and totally own the home screen, which is the first thing users see when they launch the Hopper app. As a senior backend engineer on the team, you’ll be responsible for improving existing high traffic services as well as creating new ones to support multiple teams, as well as designing innovative solutions to problems on a very important part of the app, the home screen. You’ll collaborate with a tight team of talented engineers to break down complex problems, experiment quickly, and build things at internet scale.
Responsibilities:
- Building new services that are easy to understand and consume by others
- Improving services based on metrics such as latency and availability
- Writing SLAs, SLOs and SLIs to ensure healthy services
- Collaborate with teams across the company to achieve goalsImplement frameworks which will be consumed by several other teams
- Influence the technical direction for the team
- Collaborate with a diverse group of people, giving and receiving feedback for growth
An ideal candidate has:
- Minimum 3+ years professional experience in backend development
- Love for building customer centric software
- Solid understanding of microservices architecture
- Professional experience developing data-heavy platforms or APIs
- Willing to learn Scala
- A passionate focus on quality, writing testable code that performs and scales
- Thrived in backend engineering positions and delivered user experience at scale
- 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, Mobile Engineers, and other highly skilled specialists
- A passion for personal technical growth and collaboration
Perks of working with us:
- The base pay for this position ranges from 130 000$ to 250 000$. Compensation will be determined by candidates’ relevant qualifications, knowledge, skills and work experience. Total compensation may also include equity (options / RSUs), sign-on bonus and other potential incentives
- Unlimited PTO
- WeWork All Access Pass OR 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
- 100% employer-paid telemedicine, medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance plans
- Access to a 401k
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.
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