Senior Backend Developer – Lodging, Accommodation

🕒 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

• Implement end-to-end technical integrations with external partners (hotels, accommodations, cars, and GDS), navigating complex communication protocols and distributed data schemas. • Write clean, high-performance code in Scala or other JVM languages to maintain, evolve, and uphold rigorous engineering standards for our critical lodging services. • Explore and debug complex existing codebases to get to the heart of the infrastructure and resolve production incidents in a distributed systems environment. • Collaborate with product managers and operations teams to translate 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 through production deployment. • Contribute to designing highly resilient, low-latency services to ensure a seamless booking experience for customers during traffic spikes. • Participate in thorough code reviews and identify opportunities to optimize scalability, performance, and overall system health.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong proficiency in Scala or other JVM languages such as Java or Kotlin, with a focus on building high-throughput, scalable services. • Proven experience owning technical implementation, testing, and deployment of features within a microservices architecture. • Hands-on experience with distributed systems and inter-service communication methods, including gRPC, Pub/Sub, and REST. • Ability to ramp up quickly and manage technical ambiguity by independently exploring and executing technical plans within the existing infrastructure. • Excellent communication skills and a strong bias for action to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams in a remote-first environment. • Professional curiosity for travel tech and a business-oriented mindset focused on delivering reliable bookings.

🏖️ Benefits

• Well-funded, proven startup with ambitious goals, competitive salary, and pre-IPO equity packages. • Hopper covers 100% of group insurance premiums. • Hopper provides life insurance coverage as well as short- and long-term disability insurance. • A Health Spending Account (HSA) that covers eligible medical and dental expenses. • All employees and their dependents have access to Dialogue telemedicine services, anytime and anywhere. • All employees have access to a Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with automatic pre-tax payroll contributions. • Feel free to ask us about our very generous parental leave, well above industry standards! • Unlimited paid time off (PTO) program. • Carrot Cash travel allowance. • On-demand access to coworking space via FlexDesk AND a remote work stipend. • Entrepreneurial culture where pushing boundaries and taking risks is part of the day-to-day. • Open communication with company leadership and executives. • Small, dynamic teams = massive impact.