Senior Software Engineer – Fintech, Disruption and Insurance
Hopper
full-time
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Location: California, Illinois, New York, Washington • 🇺🇸 United States
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Senior
Tech Stack
CloudGoogle Cloud PlatformGRPCJavaKotlinScalaTerraform
About the role
- Crafting, implementing, and deploying sophisticated backend systems that power Hopper’s user experience.
- Planning, investigating, and scoping upcoming projects owned by the engineer.
- Mentoring team members via pair programming and asynchronous communication channels.
- Writing, reviewing, and improving production code.
- Learning and adopting new technical concepts, services, and GCP features that provide value.
- Participating in regular team meetings to discuss projects and plan upcoming sprints.
- Leading and delivering complex, multi-month projects to production.
- Collaborating with the Fintech team to grow the Disruption and Insurance product category.
Requirements
- Experienced in full-stack development, with emphasis on backend skills.
- Proficient in Scala or other JVM languages (Kotlin, Java) with production experience.
- Solid understanding of system architecture and designing scalable, maintainable solutions.
- Skilled in service communication methods: gRPC, pub/sub, REST.
- Knowledgeable in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and cloud-native development best practices.
- Experienced in deploying infrastructure using Terraform or similar tools.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and deliver complex, multi-month projects from inception to production.
- Committed to enhancing system quality and reliability; strong software engineering practices.
- Professional background in the travel or fintech industries.
- At least 4 years of experience in a fullstack web engineering role.
- Experience mentoring other engineers (pair programming and asynchronous mentoring).