Senior Engineer, HTS Foundations
Hopper
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Canada
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About the role
- Architectural strategy: Design the underlying models for booking flows and multi-tenant configurations.
- Technical governance: Define the “North Star” for our distributed Scala systems, ensuring robust and maintainable models.
- Multi-tenant excellence: Evolve the platform toward a “configuration over customization” model to enable partner deployments without manual technical intervention.
- Mentorship and influence: Raise the bar across the organization through in-depth design reviews and by promoting a culture of asynchronous decision-making.
- Architectural ownership: Lead the design and operation of API solutions that act as the single source of truth for our partners.
- Systemic improvement: Proactively identify and resolve bottlenecks in code or infrastructure.
- High-alignment leadership: Operate with extreme autonomy, collaborating with designers and PMs to ensure alignment on complex technical roadmaps without constant meetings.
- Asynchronous excellence: Encourage decision-making through high-quality documentation and asynchronous communication.
Requirements
- Bilingualism required: Excellent command of both French and English (spoken and written) is required to collaborate with our globally distributed teams and partners.
- Technical boldness: A natural ability to dive into complex codebases to untangle logic and implement elegant abstractions.
- Mastery of distributed systems: Deep experience (or the ability to quickly master) developing distributed systems in Scala.
- Platform mindset: Prioritize modularity and configuration to support N partners with minimal manual intervention.
- Pragmatic judgment: Ability to distinguish what must be perfect from what can be iterated, balancing long-term health and speed of execution.
Benefits
- Solid, ambitious startup: A well-funded company with global ambitions; competitive salary and significant upside potential through pre-IPO equity packages.
- 100% paid insurance: Hopper covers 100% of group insurance premiums.
- Full protection: Life insurance and short- and long-term disability coverage.
- Health Spending Account (HSA): To cover eligible medical and dental expenses.
- Telemedicine with Dialogue: Unlimited access to Dialogue’s virtual healthcare services for employees and their dependents, anytime and anywhere.
- Retirement savings (RRSP): Access to an RRSP plan with automatic pre-tax payroll deductions each pay period.
- Exceptional parental leave: Ask us about our very generous policy, significantly above industry norms.
- Unlimited time off (PTO): A performance- and trust-based culture with an unlimited vacation policy.
- “Carrot Cash” travel allowance: Hopper credits to help you explore the world.
- Flexible work: On-demand access to coworking spaces via FlexDesk AND an allowance for remote work (home office equipment).
- Entrepreneurial culture: An environment where pushing boundaries and taking risks is part of our daily work.
- Open communication: Direct and transparent access to leadership and company leaders.
- Massive impact: Small, dynamic teams that enable concrete, visible contributions to our global products.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
Scaladistributed systemsAPI designbooking flowsmulti-tenant configurationselegant abstractionsmodularityconfiguration managementcode optimizationtechnical governance
Soft Skills
mentorshipinfluenceasynchronous decision-makingcollaborationhigh-quality documentationpragmatic judgmentleadershipautonomycommunicationproblem-solving