Senior Full Stack Engineer, Realtime & Voice

🕒 August 25

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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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

• Own the voice channel end to end, including telephony and CPaaS integrations, streaming speech-to-text and text-to-speech pipelines, realtime model orchestration, and latency and quality budgets • Build product features across React/TypeScript web chat front ends, Scala and Python backend services, and GCP infrastructure • Design multi-tenant architecture serving multiple partners through configuration rather than forks • Build safety and compliance systems, including guardrails, content filtering, and PII redaction integration points • Maintain revenue-critical deployments through observability, alerting, incident response, and SLA performance • Build platform capabilities used by forward-deployed engineers for partner telephony integrations and go-lives • Contribute through code reviews, architecture reviews, and mentoring

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of software engineering experience • Senior-level ownership of production systems and genuine full-stack range • Hands-on realtime systems experience, such as voice applications, WebRTC/SIP, streaming media, or comparable low-latency products • Strength in React and TypeScript • Backend expertise in Scala or another JVM language and/or Python • Cloud infrastructure experience on GCP or AWS • Experience designing, building, and maintaining RESTful APIs, microservices, or event-driven systems • Familiarity using AI coding tools as a standard part of the workflow • Experience with SLAs, observability, on-call rotations, and rollback plans • Ability to break down complex problems, make pragmatic tradeoffs, and ship iteratively • Strong communication across product, design, and operations • Conversational AI or LLM orchestration experience is a bonus • Knowledge of speech technologies such as Deepgram, ElevenLabs, Whisper, or OpenAI Realtime is a bonus • Knowledge of cloud telephony or CPaaS platforms such as Twilio, Amazon Connect, Genesys, or LiveKit is a bonus • Experience building customer service, CRM, contact center, or workflow automation tools is a bonus • Familiarity with travel industry technologies (PSS/GDS, hotel PMS/CRS) is a plus, though not required

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary • Pre-IPO equity packages • Hopper covers 100% of group insurance premiums • Life, short-term disability, and long-term disability coverage • HSA covering eligible medical and dental expenses • Dialogue telemedicine services for employees and dependents, anytime, anywhere • RRSP plan with automatic pre-tax withdrawals each pay period • Very generous parental leave • Unlimited PTO • Carrot Cash travel stipend • On-demand coworking space through FlexDesk • Work-from-home stipend • Entrepreneurial culture • Open communication with management and company leadership • Small, dynamic teams with massive impact