About The Job

We’re looking for an experienced product manager to join our team to support Hopper’s Europe market expansion. As we are tapping into new markets, we need to close supply gaps so as to provide competitive pricing for all our services while retaining a healthy P&L level.

You’ll work with a highly skilled team of technical, data, and product-focused individuals, whose mission is to consistently find and deliver the best travel deals for our customers. You have strong software, data modeling, and analytical skills. Everything we do is focused on customer experience, data measurement, and delivering value at speed. You’ll be responsible for making that a reality.

What Would Your Day-to-day Look Like

• Build innovative customer experiences, setting standards for code and performance
• Create delightful user experiences in our app (Android)
• Work in a complex dynamic environment with a rich API tier
• 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

An Ideal Candidate Has

• Thrived in mobile technologies and delivered delightful user experience at scale
• Excellent understanding of computer science fundamentals, data structures, and algorithms to ensure adherence to software engineering best practices including object-oriented and functional programming.
• 3+ years experience as an Android developer using Kotlin, Java, Android SDK, Gradle, and Android Studio in an agile environment
• A proven ability to build prototypes and take a data-driven approach to product development, testing and measuring new ideas very quickly
• Solid knowledge of Android design patterns including Clean Architecture.
• Experience building multi-module Android apps is a big plus. Experience with MVVM/MVI is also a plus.
• Excelled in cross-functional teams, working fluidly with Product Managers, Data Scientists, Mobile Engineers, and other highly skilled specialists
• Backend experience, but if not, at least some basic backend knowledge and being willing to support the team with backend work when needed
• A passionate focus on quality, writing testable code that performs well for our consumers

Minimum Qualifications

• No ego - strong focus on doing what is right for the customer and the company
• Technical depth to enable productive collaboration with world-class engineers
• Obsessive focus on the details in planning, evaluating, and building products
• Aptitude to work in a dynamic, high-growth business that operates at a very fast pace
• A customer-obsessed focus and positive, team-oriented attitude
• Excellent judgment and the confidence to make important trade-offs under pressure

Our Tech Stack

• We have a microservice architecture with over 200+ services
• Mostly Scala on the backend with some Python and GoLang
• Our UIs are Mobile first: Swift on iOS and Kotlin on Android
• Unidirectional Dataflow & MVVM/MVI for mobile.
• We host our services on Google Cloud
• We use things like HBase, Kafka, Pub/Sub, GCP Big Query, Cloud SQL, S3, Delos, RedisGKE (K8) , terraform
• We are driven by data so Amplitude, Big Query and Datadog will be your buddies

Perks Of Working With Us

• Well-funded and proven startup with large ambitions, competitive salary and stock options
• Unlimited PTO
• Very generous parental leave
• Wellness benefit
• Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurances
• 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

More About Hopper

Despite the pandemic’s impact on the travel industry, Hopper has emerged stronger than ever. As the travel industry continues to rebound, Hopper has demonstrated significant outperformance with its category-leading mobile-only marketplace, delivering value to customers and supply partners with the company’s proprietary suite of fintech offerings.

Here are just a few stats that demonstrate the company’s recent growth:

• Hopper’s valuation is now over $5B, which is more than triple our valuation from early 2020.
• According to Apptopia, Hopper was the #1 most downloaded OTA in the US in 2021. The app has over 70 million downloads.
• Given the success of its travel fintech, Hopper recently launched a B2B initiative called Hopper Cloud, where any travel provider can unlock a totally unique revenue stream by seamlessly integrating and offering Hopper’s travel content and fintech products. Hopper Cloud partners include Capital One, Kayak, Marriott, Amadeus, Trip.com, and MakeMyTrip.
• And all this recent growth is just the beginning. There are still so many new opportunities we’re excited to tackle in the next year!