Senior Software Engineer, Hopper
Hotels, Lodging
+ Pre IPO equity packages
Travel booking app
Job no longer available
Travel booking app
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
+ Pre IPO equity packages
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make booking travel faster, easier, and more transparent.
Role
Who you are
- Experienced in full-stack development, with a strong emphasis on backend skills
- Proficient in Scala or other JVM languages (like Java), with demonstrated experience in a production setting
- Solid understanding of system architecture, focusing on designing scalable and maintainable solutions
- Skilled in various service communication methods, including gRPC, pub/sub, and REST
- Knowledgeable in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and cloud-native development best practices
- Experienced in deploying infrastructure using Terraform or similar tools
- Demonstrated ability to lead and deliver complex, multi-month projects from inception to production
- Committed to enhancing system quality and reliability, showcasing excellence in software engineering practices
- Professional background in the travel with an understanding of their specific challenges and requirements
What the job involves
- We're hiring a Sr Software Engineer to join our Hotel team and help us innovate the evolution of travel selling and booking technology. Hotel contributes to 70% of the company's overall revenue
- As a Software Engineer, you will be directly responsible for crafting, implementing, and deploying the sophisticated backend systems that power Hopper’s award-winning user experience
- We’re seeking an experienced Software Engineer to join our team to help us grow and mature our hotel stack
- Planning, investigating, or scoping out an upcoming project that you own
- Mentoring other team members, either through pair programming or asynchronously through Slack
- Writing code, reviewing code, and improving code
- Learning about a new technical concept, service, or GCP feature that provides value to our team
- While Hopper has a low-meeting culture (no one has more than 10 hours of meetings scheduled at the start of a week, including managers), we find value in regular meetings to discuss ongoing projects with the team and plan work for upcoming sprints
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Hopper is a mobile application that uses big data to predict and analyse airfare and accommodation prices, delivering savings to users. The company was created to make booking travel faster, easier, and more transparent by leveraging the power that comes from combining large amounts of data with machine learning.
As well as its booking platform, the company also has a B2B offering called HTS (Hopper Technology Solutions), which enables travel providers to integrate Hopper's travel, fintech and eCommerce products. Major partners of this initiative include Marriott, Kayak and Capital One.
Lately, the company has focussed on innovation and international expansion, with the intent to grow its operating margins. It has not been unaffected by the economic landscape, and made a round of lay-offs in 2023, although this appears to be part of a wider move towards profitability rather than a sign of trouble.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Nov 2022
$96m
LATE VC
Aug 2021
$175m
SERIES G
Total funding: $731m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
- Well-funded and proven startup with large ambitions and stock options
- 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
- Access to a Retirement Savings Plan
- Immigration assistance
- Internal career mobility program
- Light internal meeting culture
- 100% employer-paid telemedicine, medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance plans
Company HQ
La Petite-Patrie, Montreal, QC
Leadership
Frederic Lalonde
(CEO)Previously worked for 4 years at Expedia, first as VP of Hotel Supplier Strategy then as VP of Hotels and Packages Product Planning.
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