Hopper

Software Engineer – Flights

Hopper

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • Texas • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

Distributed SystemsGRPCJavaKotlinMicroservicesScala

About the role

  • 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.

Requirements

  • 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
  • Well-funded and proven startup with large ambitions, competitive salary, upsides of pre-IPO equity packages
  • 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.
  • 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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