[Remote] Senior Backend Engineer - Lodging and Cars
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Hopper is a leading travel platform on a mission to power the travel industry through innovative technology and fintech solutions. The Senior Backend Engineer will play a crucial role in scaling a global hotel and cars ecosystem, ensuring reliable booking fulfillment and optimizing system performance in a complex microservices environment.
Responsibilities
- Execute end-to-end technical integrations with external lodgings, cars and GDS partners while navigating complex communication protocols and distributed data schemas
- Write clean, performant code in Scala or other JVM languages to maintain, evolve, and uphold rigorous engineering standards for mission-critical lodging services
- Explore and troubleshoot existing complex codebases to deep-dive into infrastructure and resolve production issues in a distributed system environment
- Partner with Product Managers and Operations to decompose 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 to production deployment
- Contribute to the design of highly resilient, low-latency services to ensure a seamless booking experience for customers under high load
- Participate in thorough code reviews and identify opportunities to optimize scalability, performance, and system health
Skills
- Strong proficiency in Scala or other JVM languages, such as Java or Kotlin, with a focus on building scalable, high-throughput services
- A proven track record of owning the technical implementation, testing, and deployment of features within a microservices architecture
- Practical experience with distributed systems and service communication methods including gRPC, Pub/Sub, and REST
- The ability to onboard quickly and handle technical ambiguity by independently exploring and executing technical plans within existing infrastructure
- Excellent communication skills and a 'bias for action' to effectively collaborate with cross-functional squads in a remote-first environment
- A professional curiosity for the travel tech industry and a commercial mindset focused on delivering reliable booking fulfillment
Benefits
- Well-funded and proven startup with large ambitions, competitive salary and the upsides of pre-IPO equity packages.
- Unlimited PTO.
- Carrot Cash travel stipend.
- Access to co-working space on demand through FlexDesk AND Work-from-home stipend.
- Please ask us about our very generous parental leave, much above industry standards!.
- Entrepreneurial culture where pushing limits and taking risks is everyday business.
- Open communication with management and company leadership.
- Small, dynamic teams = massive impact.
- 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.
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