Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack - Fintech Airlines - Remote

Overview

The Fintech team is the engine behind Hopper's most innovative and high-margin products, such as Cancel for Any Reason and Disruption Assistance. We are responsible for designing, building, and scaling the backend systems that power these proprietary fintech offerings, integrating them with some of the world's largest travel companies (airlines, banks, hotels) through our B2B platform, HTS (Hopper Technology Solutions).

In Short

• Iterate on features in an agile manner using Scala and React (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.

Requirements

• 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/or React and its libraries.
• Prior airline/travel industry or eCommerce experience.
• Experience in UX design, using tools like Figma.

Benefits

• Well-funded and proven startup with large ambitions, competitive salary and upsides of pre-IPO equity packages.
• Hopper will offer and cover 100% of employee premiums for private Major & Minor Medical insurances.
• Hopper supplements Social Security coverage for liability benefits with Private insurance to cover you and your loved ones from Day 1.
• Hopper provides employees with a tax-advantageous and secured savings vehicle and matches up to a percentage of employee contributions.
• Please ask us about our very generous parental leave, much above industry standards!.
• Unlimited PTO.
• Flexdesk coworking All Access Pass AND Work-from-home stipend.
• Carrot Cash travel stipend.
• Hopper offers a monthly subsidy to pay for teleworking utilities.
• An entrepreneurial culture where pushing limits and taking risks is everyday business.
• Open communication with management and company leadership.
• Small, dynamic teams = massive impact.