Senior Software Engineer - Fullstack, International Expansion E-Commerce Platform

About the job

A stellar opportunity to make a massive impact as a member of a team focused on helping the company scale internationally. We build the foundational internationalization platform for all verticals in the company (Air, Hotel, Home, Ground, Fintech, etc.) to use across all channels (iOS, Android, Web). As a Senior Software Engineer, you will also be responsible for scaling, improving and extending our products and services to accommodate international requirements.

You’ll work with a highly skilled team of technical, data and product-focused individuals, whose mission is to consistently find and deliver the best experience to our international customers. You have strong software, data modeling, analytical skills, and a passion and empathy for our international users. Everything we do is focused on customer experience, you’ll be responsible for making an awesome international user experience a reality.

• Pioneer future development and technical execution for international use cases.
• Provide solutions and guidance on methodologies for globalization of applications and services to ensure they are world-ready.
• Deliver complex features and help our team pioneer new functionalities for our customers leveraging Scala, Typescript, Swift, Kotlin, and technologies like GCP Big Table, Pub/Sub, and Big Query, Cloud SQL, Redis, Datadog.
• Collaborate directly with the company’s technology leadership and other teams on ensuring Hopper’s success, giving and receiving feedback for growth.
• Ensure a highly available and resilient system and foster a culture of excellence.

• 5+ years of professional full-time in software engineering with a focus on full stack development
• Can lead technical conversations, and drive towards smart architecture and system design decisions.
• Inspires trust in their domain expertise (internationalization) when advising other engineers in the company, while at the same time showing competence in engineering design beyond internationalization.
• Takes pride in ownership and thinks for the long term and is a strong advocate for building stable, future proof, services and systems.
• Can make the correct tradeoffs between moving quickly and building stable systems, with a strong bias towards documentation for systems, apis, architecture decisions, etc.
• Understands the requirements and purpose of strong operational process
• Experience in building front-end applications with modern web development technologies.
• Internationalization and localization domain knowledge and/or enthusiasm.

• Well-funded and proven startup with large ambitions, competitive salary and the upsides of pre-IPO equity packages
• Unlimited PTO
• Carrot Cash travel stipend
• Flexdesk All Access Pass 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, vision, disability and life insurance plans
• Up to 4000$ per year in Health Reimbursement Account (HRA)
• FSA/ DCA: Hopper offers pre-tax deduction for out-of-pocket expenditures for health and dependent care costs.
• Access to a 401K plan

$150,000 - $350,000 a year

More about Hopper

At Hopper, we are on a mission to become the leading travel platform globally – powering Hopper’s mobile app, website and our B2B business, HTS (Hopper Technology Solutions). By leveraging massive amounts of data and advanced machine learning algorithms, Hopper combines its world-class travel agency offering with proprietary fintech products to bring transparency, flexibility and savings to travelers globally.