Senior Backend Software Engineer, Hopper
Payments & Fraud
Plus pre-IPO equity packages
Travel booking app
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Travel booking app
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
Plus pre-IPO equity packages
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make booking travel faster, easier, and more transparent.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of experience building scalable backend systems
- A strong understanding of distributed systems and how architectural decisions affect performance and maintainability
- The ability to work with minimal guidance, be proactive and to handle uncertainty, ambiguity and the challenge of quickly evolving goals
- Excelled in cross-functional teams, working fluidly with Product Managers, Data Scientists, Frontend Engineers, and other highly skilled specialists
- Prior experience in the payments and fraud space a plus
What the job involves
- Hopper Technology Solutions (HTS) Checkout combines market-leading payment services and best-in-class fraud detection to enhance the travel experience for users and drive revenue for partners
- Our hosted checkout solution offers global coverage and currency support, a comprehensive suite of payment methods and an industry-leading anti-fraud technology
- We are seeking a senior backend software engineer with experience building scalable and robust systems to join our team
- As part of a cross-functional team of exceptional engineers and product managers, you will develop new features and provide best-in-class support to help our partners scale their businesses
- Our backend systems are written in Scala, and we use a suite of GCP services with extensive use of GKE, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, and Spanner
- Containerized microservices architecture with over 200+ services running primarily in Google Cloud Kubernetes
- We are heavily data-driven, making extensive use of tools like Amplitude, BigQuery, and Datadog
- Design, build and review code for our fraud and abuse backend platform
- Iterate on features using Scala (no prior experience required) and technologies within GCP
- Ship your first code in days, iterating on features in an agile manner
- Operate autonomously but work closely with engineers and PMs to ensure high alignment
- Collaborate cross-functionally with the product team and other Hopper teams
- We operate with few meetings and emphasize strong alignment and asynchronous decision making
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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