Senior Software Engineer, Hopper
Fintech/Payments
+ pre-IPO equity
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Travel booking app
Job no longer available
Travel booking app
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
+ pre-IPO equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make booking travel faster, easier, and more transparent.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years experience thriving in backend engineering positions and delivering user experiences at scale
- A strong understanding of distributed systems and how architectural decisions affect performance and maintainability
- A strong understanding of site reliability and operations
- A passionate focus on quality, writing testable code that performs and scales
- Close collaboration with software engineers (backend and mobile), product managers, data scientists, and designers to deliver rapid value to end-users
Desirable
- Backend experience with Scala, Google Cloud, Kubernetes
- Experience developing B2B products with millions of MAU
- Experience in the Payments domain
What the job involves
- In this role, you’ll be working alongside a team of talented engineers and partner with product, design, and data science to prioritize, estimate, and implement new product features in an Agile environment
- Ship your first code in days, iterating on features in an Agile manner leveraging Scala and technologies like Spanner, pub/sub, GCP Big Query
- Build robust and performant infrastructure that supports millions of dollars of revenue
- Make important architectural decisions about core backend systems
- Coach and mentor developers at various stages of their career
- Collaborate with a diverse group of people, giving and receiving feedback for growth
- Execute on big opportunities, helping Hopper rise to the top of the travel industry
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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