Senior Backend Engineer, Hopper
HTS Stays
$150-350k
+ Pre-IPO equity packages + Bonus
Travel booking app
Open for applications
Travel booking app
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$150-350k
+ Pre-IPO equity packages + Bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make booking travel faster, easier, and more transparent.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate is passionate about building high-quality software and takes ownership of their work
- You should be adept at quickly delivering quality results and be able to differentiate between critical initial requirements and areas that can be iteratively improved
- We'd love to hear from you if you thrive in a fast-paced environment and enjoy creative problem-solving
- 5+ years of professional full-time in software engineering with a focus on backend development
- A passion for product-focused delivery rooted in ownership and stewardship
- Strong communication skills that facilitate consensus across disciplines, inside and outside of an organization
- Proficiency with any strongly typed language such as Scala, C#, Java, Go, Kotlin, et cetera
- Experience with microservice heavy ecosystems
- Experience with distributed systems and asynchronous messaging (Kafka, Azure Service Bus, Pub./Sub)
- Experience working with gRPC/Protobuf
- A demonstrated history of enterprise scale system design
- Proficiency working in multiple cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure)
- Solid problem-solving and debugging skills, with the tendency to want to automate repetitive tasks to make things easier going forward
- A passion for writing testable code and testing it - Knows what to test, what not to test, and what kinds of tests matter
What the job involves
- We are seeking a talented backend engineer to assist in building a new travel portal for one of our latest HTS partners
- In this role, you will collaborate directly with our client to address their business needs
- You’ll design and maintain multi-tenant systems and external APIs, supporting not only our current business partner but also facilitating HTS partner integrations for companies worldwide
- Our work environment prioritizes context over control, emphasizing trust and autonomy
- As a member of our cross-functional team, you will collaborate with top-tier engineers, designers, and product managers to make our partner’s vision a reality
- In our team, there are no sidelines
- Your voice will help drive our roadmap, define our architecture, and shape our working culture
- We work for the client, but more importantly we work for one another
- Work with a group of top-tier engineers in a low-process environment powered by trust and autonomy
- Drive decisions and consensus asynchronously with thoughtful documentation
- Ship fast. Learn fast. Repeat
- Design and implement internal and external facing APIs to power new functionality in the HTS platform
- Work directly with PMs and business partners to help define and refine our roadmap. Your voice matters
- Collaborate cross-functionally with a diverse group of people, giving and receiving feedback for growth
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.
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Company Specialist
Insights
Some 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 medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance plans
- Access to a 401k
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
Articles
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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