The Cloud Travel group builds web travel portals for B2B partners, expanding into a B2C offering soon. After a few very successful existence proofs that in one year went to account for over 40% of Hopper’s total revenue, we are scaling up our efforts to deliver first class travel experience to more partners and their customers.

As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Cloud Travel teams, you will work as part of a cross-functional team of exceptional engineers, designers and product managers to help bring new features to market in web portals, iterate on feature construction, and iteratively improve the scalability of our suite of travel portals across both B2B and B2C channels.

A successful candidate will demonstrate a high sense of ownership of outcomes and consistently look for creative ways to deliver results quickly, being able to tell between what has to be right from the start and what can be iterated on.

Responsibilities:

Build amazing consumer experiences, taking responsibility for code quality, scalability, reliability and performance of the underlying implementation
Operate high quality products that build trust in our customers through operational excellence
Quickly prototype new ideas and run experiments to identify features that customers love

Minimum qualifications

Love for building customer centric software and impact
6+ years professional experience in backend 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

Preferred Qualification

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 coaching 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

Our Tech Stack

We have a microservice architecture with over 200 services.
Mostly Scala on the backend with some Python (Scala experience would be a bonus, but is not required)
Our front-end is on React (TypeScript)
We host our services on Google Cloud

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MORE ABOUT HOPPER

At Hopper, we are on a mission to become the world’s best — and most fun — place to book travel. By leveraging massive amounts of data, advanced machine learning algorithms, Hopper combines its world-class travel agency offering with proprietary fintech products to help customers spend less and travel better. Ranked the third largest online travel agency in North America, the app has been downloaded nearly 80 million times and continues to gain market share globally.

Here are just a few stats that demonstrate the company’s recent growth:

- Hopper sold around $4 billion in travel and travel fintech in 2022, up nearly 3X over 2021. In 2022, Hopper increased its revenue 2.5X year-over year.

- The company’s bespoke fintech products, such as Flight Disruption Guarantee and Price Freeze, now represent 30-40% of Hopper’s total app revenue.

- Given the success of its fintech products, Hopper launched a B2B initiative called Hopper Cloud in late 2021. Through this partnership program, any travel provider (airlines, hotels, banks, travel agencies, etc.) can integrate and seamlessly distribute Hopper’s fintech or travel inventory. As its first Hopper Cloud partnership,

- Hopper partnered with Capital One to co-develop Capital One Travel, a new travel portal designed specifically for cardholders.

- Recognized as one of the world’s most innovative companies by Fast Company four years in a row, Hopper has been downloaded over 80 million times and continues to have millions of new installs each month.

- Hopper has raised over $700 million USD of private capital and is backed by some of the largest institutional investors and banks in the world. Hopper is primed to continue its acceleration as the world’s fastest-growing mobile-first travel marketplace.

Come take off with us!

Senior Backend Engineer - Cloud Travel