Hopper · 1 day ago
Software Engineer - Flights
Miami, FL
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior LevelHopper is a leading travel platform aiming to revolutionize the travel industry through data and advanced machine learning. The Software Engineer - Flights will play a critical role in developing and enhancing the core flight booking engine, driving feature delivery, and ensuring system reliability in a high-volume, real-time environment.
AppsBig DataMobile AppsPredictive AnalyticsTravel
Responsibilities
Driving Core Feature Delivery: Taking ownership of major feature releases across the entire flight booking funnel—from flight search to booking creation and post-booking fulfillment
Impacting Global Reach: Building scalable services that integrate new airline partners and support our B2B distribution network, enabling Hopper’s growth worldwide
System Reliability: Contributing directly to the design and implementation of highly resilient, low-latency services that ensure a trustworthy and seamless experience for customers under high load
End-to-End Feature Development: Designing, implementing, and deploying high-quality code for new flight product features, taking them from concept to production
System Enhancement: Participating actively in discussions around system design, identifying opportunities to improve service scalability, performance, and monitoring (SLOs/SLAs)
Integration Projects: Leading the technical implementation of new integrations with external airline and GDS partners, navigating complex communication protocols and data schemas
Code Quality and Mentorship: Upholding high standards for code quality through thorough code reviews, mentoring more junior engineers on best practices, and driving engineering excellence
Implementation and Review: Writing clean, performant code, contributing significantly to the codebase, and performing code reviews to maintain quality and share knowledge
Technical Problem Solving: Collaborating with senior engineers to troubleshoot, debug, and resolve challenging production issues in a distributed system
Requirements Planning: Partnering with Product Managers and Product Operations to understand business requirements, decompose features into technical tasks, and estimate delivery timelines
System Exploration: Deeply exploring and improving the existing codebase and contributing to engineering improvements for the core flights product
Qualification
Required
Feature Ownership Track Record: A working history of owning the technical implementation, testing, and deployment of features throughout the development life cycle
System Contribution: Experience working on and contributing to the design of highly available microservices in a production environment
Language Proficiency: Strong proficiency in Scala or other JVM languages, such as Java/Kotlin
Distributed Systems Experience: Familiarity with various service communication methods, including gRPC, Pub/Sub, and REST, and practical experience working in a distributed environment
Collaboration and Communication: Excellent communication skills, demonstrating an ability to effectively collaborate with developers, product managers, and operations teams to achieve feature goals
Benefits
Competitive salary
Uncapped quarterly paid performance bonus
Unlimited PTO
Carrot Cash travel stipend
Access to co-working space on demand through FlexDesk AND Work-from-home stipend
Very generous parental leave, much above industry standards
100% employer paid Medical, Dental and Vision coverage for employees
Access to Disability & Life insurance
Health Reimbursement Account (HRA)
DCA/ FSA and access to 401k plan
Company
Hopper
Hopper is a travel app that uses predictive analytics to make travel recommendations.
Founded in 2007
201-500 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2023 (20)
2022 (28)
2021 (15)
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$729.68MKey Investors
Capital One VenturesGPI CapitalWestCap
2022-11-07Series Unknown· $96M
2022-02-02Secondary Market· $35M
2021-08-17Series G· $175M
Leadership Team
Frederic Lalonde
Founder & CEO
Sebastien Rainville
Co-founder
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