Fullstack Job: Senior Software Engineer - Fullstack, Homes (Remot

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Company

Hopper

Location

Toronto - Canada

Job type

Full-Time

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About the job

As a Senior Fullstack Engineer on the Homes team, you’ll work on the vacation home rentals product within Hopper’s $2B+ travel ecosystem. You will help build out all the services we need to support our hosts, while designing systems that will enable us to move quickly ensuring a high standard of code quality and scalability. You’ll work alongside an experienced team of developers, designers, and travel industry experts to bring Hopper’s travelers the best price, selection, convenience, and booking flexibility in vacation home rentals.

As the newest travel category at Hopper, Homes is a fast-growing product that is at the beginning of its journey. This is an opportunity where you will have a massive impact on the definition and evolution of the business.

Responsibilities

    • Build amazing consumer experiences, taking responsibility for code quality, scalability, reliability and performance
    • Help build the technical team for Hopper Homes, assist in interviews and onboarding of new team members
    • Quickly prototype new ideas and run experiments to identify features that customers love
    • Help shape the systems design for the homes vertical and how it integrates with our microservices architecture
    • Collaborate with a diverse group of people, giving and receiving feedback for growth
    • A passionate focus on quality, writing testable code that performs well for our consumers
    • A desire to help our team continuously improve

Minimum qualifications

    • Love for building customer centric software
    • 4+ years professional experience in full stack development
    • Deep comfort with at least one server-side stack
    • Excelled in an environment with cross-functional teams, working fluidly with Product Managers, Data Scientists, Software Developers, and other highly skilled specialists
    • Ability to quickly iterate on Web interface UI/UX and related design

Preferred qualifications

    • Thorough understanding of Web system architecture and design, at scale
    • Experience with, or willing to learn, distributed system development in Scala
    • Proven track record of leading less-experienced engineers in building stable and scalable code
    • Proven ability to build prototypes and take a data-driven approach to product development, testing and measuring new ideas very quickly
    • The ability to bring leading industry techniques and technologies to the table

Our tech stack

    • We have a microservice architecture with over 200+ services.
    • Mostly Scala on the backend with some Python.
    • Our UIs are Mobile first: Swift on iOS and Kotlin on Android.
    • We mostly host our services on Google Cloud with some on-prem.
    • We use things like HBase, Kafka, Pub/Sub, GCP Big Query, Cloud SQL, S3, Delos, Redis.
    • We are driven by data so Amplitude, Big Query and Datadog will be your buddies.

Benefits

    • Well-funded and proven startup with large ambitions, competitive salary and stock options
    • Unlimited PTO
    • 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
    • 100% employer-paid telemedicine, medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance plans
    • Access to a Retirement Savings Plan
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!
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