About the job

About The Job

A stellar opportunity to make a massive impact: Join a growing team in Europe in a company that is continually redefining how people travel. Our Supply - Europe team is responsible for reliably connecting our customers with diversified sources of travel inventory (Air, Hotel, Ground transportation) so that we can always offer the best possible deal. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for scaling, improving and operating our direct integrations platform across the board.

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 user experiences, setting code and performance standards.
• Evolve and maintain our architecture, including monitoring and alerting systems.
• Build, own and generally maintain our vendor integration microservices.
• Contribute to improvements in a microservices architecture system.
• Deliver your first code in days, iterating over the product in an agile way.
• Collaborate with a diverse group of people, giving and receiving feedback to foster growth.
• Seize great opportunities, helping Hopper rise to the top of the travel industry.

An Ideal Candidate Has

• 3+ years professional experience building and maintaining systems leveraging complex modelling and data at scale.
• Thrived in backend engineering positions and delivered user experience at scale.
• The ability to bring leading industry techniques and technologies to the table.
• Excelled in cross-functional teams, working fluidly with Product Managers, Data Scientists, Mobile Engineers, and other highly skilled specialists.
• A passionate focus on quality, writing testable code that performs and scales.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building and managing multiple external API integrations.
• Professional experience developing data heavy platforms or APIs.
• Professional programming experience with Java, Scala, Python or Go.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English.
• Strong analytical and creative problem solving skills.

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!