Hopper
(Remote) Senior Software Engineer, APAC
About the Team
Join a pioneer regional team in a globally established company that is continually redefining how people travel. Our APAC 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 Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for representing the Asia-Pacific travel customer by scaling and improving our feature set and operations.
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. Everything we do is focused on customer experience, data measurement and delivering value at speed, helping Hopper rise to the top of the travel industry - you’ll be responsible for making that a reality.
Responsibilities
- Work with and mentor your teammates by being a huge proponent of best practices, performance, and reliability
- Set code and performance standards through code reviews and participating in discussions
- Execute what you build - DevOps mindset
- Evolve and maintain our microservices architecture, including monitoring and alerting systems
- Collaborate with a diverse group of people, giving and receiving feedback to foster growth
Preferred professional experiences
- 6+ years professional experience, professional programming experience with Scala or other functional programming languages
- Strong CS knowledge, expertise building complex distributed services on large-scale platform for web and mobile apps
- Proven experience building and managing backend systems in a cloud environment like AWS or GCP
- Experience building and managing multiple external API integrations
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in English
You will be a great fit if you possess
- Strong analytical and creative problem solving skills
- The ability to bring leading industry techniques and technologies to the table.
- A love of learning and teaching with a demonstrable empathy for customers
- Excelled in cross-functional teams, working fluidly with Product Managers, Data Scientists, Mobile Engineers, and other highly skilled specialists
- Professional experience developing data heavy platforms or APIs.
Benefits that Hopper provides
- Well-funded and proven startup with large ambitions, competitive salary and stock options
- Unlimited PTO
- $200 Carrot Cash annual travel stipend (available in most countries)
- WeWork All Access Pass OR 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
- Additional compensation for medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance costs
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!
Hopper analyzes billions of prices daily to predict how prices will change, and tells you whether to buy or wait. Save up to 40% on your next flight.
- Founded
- Founded 2007
- Employees
- 201-500 employees
- Industry
- Internet Software & Services
- Total raised
- $270M raised
Senior Software Engineer