Senior Back-end Software Engineer

Summary

Join Hopper Technology Solutions as a Back-End Software Engineer and contribute to creating innovative travel experiences. Collaborate with a cross-functional team to develop and deliver features, supporting partners to ensure seamless scaling of joint ventures. You will design, build, and operate scalable APIs and full-stack solutions. The ideal candidate is passionate about high-quality software, thrives in fast-paced environments, and possesses strong product thinking. Hopper offers competitive compensation, including equity, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• A natural drive to fearlessly deep dive into an unknown code base while keeping their eyes on the goal to deliver results fast
• Strong product thinking: their conception of quality is anchored in the customer
• Experience with, or a willingness to learn, distributed system development in Scala
• A capacity to build robust systems being able to handle large scale of both transactions and users

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate highly scalable APIs and full-stack solutions impacting the lives of millions of travelers
• Build delightful back-end features in a fast-paced, experiment-heavy (AB testing), data-driven and AGILE product lifecycle
• Conduct code reviews to ensure our codebases meet and exceed high-quality standards and best practices across the organization
• Operate autonomously but work closely with your fellow engineers as well as designer/PM to ensure high alignment
• Being part of the round table around design discussions, and product discussions, have the chance to mentor other peers as need be

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with distributed system development in Scala

Benefits

• Well-funded and proven startup with large ambitions, competitive salary and upsides of pre-IPO equity packages
• Hopper covers 100% of the premiums for group insurance plan
• Hopper offers life, short term and long term disability coverage
• HSA that covers eligible medical and dental expenses
• All employees and dependents have access to Dialogue’s telemedicine services, anytime, anywhere
• All employees have access to an RRSP plan with automatic pre-tax withdrawals per pay
• Please ask us about our very generous parental leave, much above industry standards!
• Unlimited PTO
• Carrot Cash travel stipend
• Access to co-working space on demand through FlexDesk AND 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