Senior Backend Engineer – Lodging and Cars

🕒 July 1

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Hopper

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201 - 500 employees

🏨 Hospitality

📦 Logistics

✈️ Travel

💰 $96M Venture Round on 2022-11

Hospitality • Logistics • Travel

Hopper is a travel booking platform that offers a one-stop solution for planning trips, including flights, hotels, rental cars, and homes. The platform features advanced options such as price prediction, disruption assistance, and the Price Freeze™ feature, allowing travelers to secure deals and manage changes conveniently. Hopper is known for its mobile app availability on iOS and Android, providing a streamlined experience for its users. It serves millions of travelers worldwide, offering VIP support and various affiliate programs for partners.

📋 Description

• Execute end-to-end technical integrations with external lodgings, cars and GDS partners while navigating complex communication protocols and distributed data schemas • Write clean, performant code in Scala or other JVM languages to maintain, evolve, and uphold rigorous engineering standards for mission-critical lodging services • Explore and troubleshoot existing complex codebases to deep-dive into infrastructure and resolve production issues in a distributed system environment • Partner with Product Managers and Operations to decompose business requirements into technical tasks and estimate delivery timelines • Take full ownership of the development lifecycle for new product features, from initial technical implementation and testing to production deployment • Contribute to the design of highly resilient, low-latency services to ensure a seamless booking experience for customers under high load • Participate in thorough code reviews and identify opportunities to optimize scalability, performance, and system health

🎯 Requirements

• Strong proficiency in Scala or other JVM languages, such as Java or Kotlin • A proven track record of owning the technical implementation, testing, and deployment of features within a microservices architecture • Practical experience with distributed systems and service communication methods including gRPC, Pub/Sub, and REST • The ability to onboard quickly and handle technical ambiguity by independently exploring and executing technical plans within existing infrastructure • Excellent communication skills and a "bias for action" to effectively collaborate with cross-functional squads in a remote-first environment • A professional curiosity for the travel tech industry and a commercial mindset focused on delivering reliable booking fulfillment

🏖️ Benefits

• Well-funded and proven startup with large ambitions • Competitive salary and the upsides of pre-IPO equity packages • Carrot Cash travel stipend • Flexdesk All Access Pass & 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 = massive impact