Senior Software Engineering Manager, Hopper
HTS Media
CA$200-475k
+ Equity + Potential sign-on bonus and other incentives
Travel booking app
Be an early applicant
Travel booking app
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$200-475k
+ Equity + Potential sign-on bonus and other incentives
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make booking travel faster, easier, and more transparent.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for someone who brings both technical and leadership strength, ideally with background in advertising or large-scale platform development
- 8+ years of engineering experience, with at least 3+ years managing and scaling high-performing engineering teams
- Proven success building complex, distributed systems with high scalability and reliability requirements
- Experience with ad tech, retail media, marketplace platforms, or large-scale data/ML-driven systems strongly preferred
- Track record of partnering closely with product and business teams to deliver measurable outcomes, not just features
- Ability to attract, mentor, and grow engineering talent, creating a culture of ownership and innovation
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to operate at both executive and technical levels
- Passion for shaping how technology transforms industries, with an interest in travel, marketplaces, or advertising
What the job involves
- We’re still in the early stages of our roadmap, yet HTS Media has already become one of Hopper’s fastest-growing and most profitable business units
- The engineering team plays a pivotal role in scaling the platform, ensuring our ad tech products deliver measurable impact for advertisers and seamless experiences for travelers
- Lead and scale the engineering team responsible for Hopper’s ad platform, spanning sponsored listings, audience targeting, measurement, and supply-side integrations
- Partner with product and business leaders to define the roadmap, prioritize initiatives, and ship products that drive measurable value for advertisers and Hopper
- Build a high-performance team culture, recruiting top engineering talent and developing existing team members into technical and organizational leaders
- Establish engineering excellence, ensuring systems are robust, scalable, and designed for rapid iteration while meeting the demands of high-volume, high-visibility ad placements
- Own cross-functional execution, working closely with data science, product, and sales to bring new ad formats and optimizations to life
- Shape the future of travel retail media, innovating on how travel ads are delivered, measured, and monetized in ways that outperform traditional digital channels
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
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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