Hopper

Staff Backend Software Engineer – Commerce Foundations

Hopper

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Mexico

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

Distributed SystemsScala

About the role

  • Architectural Strategy: Move beyond individual features to design the underlying patterns for booking flows, checkout journeys, and multi-tenant configurations.
  • Technical Stewardship: Define the "North Star" for our Scala-based distributed systems, ensuring our move toward global scale is met with robust, maintainable patterns.
  • Multi-Tenant Excellence: Lead the evolution of our platform to support "configuration over customization," allowing partners to launch world-class experiences with zero-touch engineering.
  • Mentorship & Influence: Raise the bar for the entire engineering org by conducting deep-dive design reviews, mentoring senior engineers, and fostering a culture of high-ownership and asynchronous decision-making.
  • Architectural Sovereignty: Lead the design, build, and operate API and full-stack solutions that serve as the "source of truth" for Stays and Packages across all HTS partners.
  • Systemic Improvement: Proactively explore and resolve engineering improvements for the team and the product—identifying bottlenecks in the codebase or infrastructure that hinder scale.
  • High-Alignment Leadership: Operate with extreme autonomy, working closely with fellow engineers, designers, and PMs to ensure high alignment on complex technical roadmaps without the need for constant meetings.
  • Cross-Functional Influence: Collaborate cross-functionally with the product team, other Hopper teams, and external partner teams to ensure foundational logic is robust and extensible.
  • Asynchronous Excellence: Drive decision-making through high-quality documentation and asynchronous communication, thriving in our low-meeting, high-alignment culture.

Requirements

  • Technical Fearlessness: A natural drive to fearlessly deep dive into an unknown, complex code base to untangle logic and implement elegant abstractions while keeping eyes on the goal to deliver results fast.
  • Foundational Product Thinking: Strong product thinking: your conception of quality is anchored in the customer, but you understand that a great experience is built on a stable, predictable commerce engine.
  • Mastery of Distributed Systems: Deep experience with (or a proven ability to rapidly master) distributed system development in Scala. You understand the trade-offs of consistency, availability, and latency in a global environment.
  • Multi-Tenant Mindset: You prioritize "configuration over customization," building modular systems that support N partners with minimal manual intervention.
  • Pragmatic Vision: You can distinguish between what has to be right from the start and what can be iterated on, balancing long-term health with the need for speed.
  • 8 years of experience in a backend-heavy engineering role.
Benefits
  • Well-funded and proven startup with large ambitions, competitive salary and upsides of pre-IPO equity packages.
  • Hopper will offer and cover 100% of employee premiums for private Major & Minor Medical insurances.
  • Hopper supplements Social Security coverage for liability benefits with Private insurance to cover you and your loved ones from Day 1.
  • Hopper provides employees with a tax-advantageous and secured savings vehicle and matches up to a percentage of employee contributions.
  • Please ask us about our very generous parental leave, much above industry standards!.
  • Unlimited PTO.
  • Flexdesk coworking All Access Pass AND Work-from-home stipend.
  • Carrot Cash travel stipend.
  • Hopper offers a monthly subsidy to pay for teleworking utilities.
  • An entrepreneurial culture where pushing limits and taking risks is everyday business.
  • Open communication with management and company leadership.
  • Small, dynamic teams = massive impact.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
Scaladistributed systemsAPI developmentfull-stack solutionsmulti-tenant configurationselegant abstractionscommerce enginebackend engineering
Soft Skills
mentorshipinfluencehigh-ownershipasynchronous decision-makingcross-functional collaborationproduct thinkingtechnical fearlessnesspragmatic vision