Senior Software Engineer, Hopper
Virtual Interlining
+ Upsides of pre-IPO equity
Travel booking app
Open for applications
Travel booking app
1001+ employees
Open for applications
+ Upsides of pre-IPO equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make booking travel faster, easier, and more transparent.
Role
Who you are
- Worked with external facing APIs previously, particularly around scaling and supporting those systems
- Pragmatic Scala experience or strong development skills in Java
- Ability to work independently and effectively communicate with a larger team and stakeholders
- Takes ownership of the products they create, creating good reusable patterns for other engineers in the team to emulate and follow
What the job involves
- The HTS Connect team is responsible for getting Virtual Interline content to our partners via APIs or direct SDK integrations, as well as writing and maintaining solutions for white label portals that we build for our partners
- We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help design and scale our forward distribution systems and deliver content to our partners
- We use a mix of strategies to accomplish this so you will work on our forward facing API’s improvising them and making them scale both on the number of requests per second but also to respond properly no matter where the partner is located
- You will be a hands-on contributor helping to design, build and scale our backend distribution architecture
- You will get the opportunity to see your work in partner production websites and assist in solving new provider specific problems
- You will ensure a consistent handoff of technical issues between teams in different time zones and help drive problems to resolution
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
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.
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-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 values
- Dive Deep. Leaders exhibit this principle by operating at all levels, staying immersed in the details, gathering data and employing first-hand knowledge while staying skeptical of any assumptions. It’s through diving deep that they earn the trust of others and the freedom to take real ownership of our work
- Bias for Action. Leaders deliver results, move fast and simplify problems that others find complex. Speed matters in business and most decisions are reversible. We can almost always learn more through action than through analysis. Leaders do things; they don’t just talk about things
- Take Ownership. Leaders are owners; not managers. They think long-term, believe no task is beneath them and act on behalf of the entire company. They are vocally self critical and benchmark themselves and their teams against the best
- Do the Right Thing. There are two parts to this leadership principle. The first is having the judgment to identify the right thing for the business and then doing it, most of the time. It’s important for leaders to be right a lot. The second part is taking a long-term view of what’s right for the business and our customers and acting only with the best intentions. Good judgment + good intentions = great leader
Company HQ
La Petite-Patrie, Montreal, QC
Founders
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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