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).

This role is at the center of Hopper's B2B strategy, building highly available, globally-scaled systems that provide peace of mind to millions of travelers on our partners' platforms and drive significant revenue for the company.

We're looking for a Senior Full-Stack Engineer to join us in building the future of travel fintech for our HTS APAC and Enterprise airline partners.

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 covers 100% of premiums for EOR offered supplemental medical insurance, via Tawuniya.
• Insurance Company is available to extend to your family and dependents.
• Please ask us about our very generous parental leave, much above industry standards!
• Access to co-working space on demand through FlexDesk AND Work-from-home stipend.
• Housing & Transportation Benefit monthly allowance.
• Carrot Cash travel stipend.
• Unlimited PTO.
• Entrepreneurial culture where pushing limits and taking risks is everyday business.
• Open communication with management and company leadership.
• Small, dynamic teams = massive impact.