Senior Software Engineer - Hotels (Lodging)
Remote, Colombia / Bogotá, Colombia / Medellin, Colombia
Lodging – Engineering /
Full-Time /
Remote
About the job
Do you want to substantially impact the future of Hopper's travel technology?
We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join our Hotel team and help us innovate the evolution of travel selling and booking technology. Hotel contributes to 70% of the company's overall revenue.
As a Software Engineer, you will be directly responsible for crafting, implementing, and deploying the sophisticated backend systems that power Hopper’s award-winning user experience.
We’re seeking an experienced Software Engineer to join our team to help us grow and mature our hotel stack.
What would your day-to-day look like:
- Planning, investigating, or scoping out an upcoming project that you own.
- Mentoring other team members, either through pair programming or asynchronously through Slack.
- Writing code, reviewing code, and improving code.
- Learning about a new technical concept, service, or GCP feature that provides value to our team.
- While Hopper has a low-meeting culture (no one has more than 10 hours of meetings scheduled at the start of a week, including managers), we find value in regular meetings to discuss ongoing projects with the team and plan work for upcoming sprints.
An ideal candidate has:
- Experienced in full-stack development, with a strong emphasis on backend skills.
- Proficient in Scala or other JVM languages (like Java), with demonstrated experience in a production setting.
- Solid understanding of system architecture, focusing on designing scalable and maintainable solutions.
- Skilled in various service communication methods, including gRPC, pub/sub, and 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, showcasing excellence in software engineering practices.
- Professional background in the travel with an understanding of their specific challenges and requirements.
Perks of working with us:
- Well-funded and proven startup with large ambitions, competitive salary and upsides of pre-IPO equity packages.
- Hopper offers group medical and dental insurance to full-time employees.
- Hopper offers life insurance with short term and long term disability coverage.
- All employees and dependents have access to telemedicine services, anytime, anywhere.
- Please ask us about our very generous parental leave, much above industry standards!.
- Unlimited PTO.
- Carrot Cash travel stipend.
- Flexdesk Access Pass & Work-from-home stipend.
- Entrepreneurial culture where pushing limits and taking risks is everyday business.
- Open communication with management and company leadership.
- Small, dynamic teams = massive impact.
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About Hopper - Careers Page
At Hopper, we are on a mission to build the world’s best travel products – combining a world-class travel agency with proprietary fintech ancillaries to help users travel better and our partners earn more. We are a global travel platform that powers the Hopper app, Hopper.com, and our B2B business, HTS (Hopper Technology Solutions).
By leveraging massive amounts of data and advanced machine learning algorithms, Hopper developed a proprietary portfolio of fintech ancillaries that offer peace of mind when booking travel and address common customer pain points, including price volatility, trip flexibility, and avoiding trip disruptions.
The Hopper platform serves hundreds of millions of travelers globally and continues to capture market share around the world. Ranked the third largest online travel agency in North America and named the #1 Most Innovative Travel Company in 2024 by Fast Company, the Hopper app has been downloaded over 120 million times and has become largely popular among younger travelers – with 70% of its users being Gen Z and millennials.
In recent years, Hopper has evolved into a global travel agency and e-commerce and travel fintech provider that powers some of the world’s largest brands and financial institutions. Through HTS, our B2B division, the company supercharges its partners’ direct channels by integrating our fintech products on their sites or powering end-to-end travel portals.
Today, our partners include leading travel brands like Capital One, Nubank, AirAsia MOVE, Air Canada, and many more. HTS operates sales channels that range from Hopper, the premier app for Gen Z in North America, to a worldwide network of travel rewards portals for credit card holders and mobile marketplaces for leading brands like Tripadvisor.
Here are just a few stats that demonstrate the company’s recent growth:
- Hopper sells billions worth of travel and travel fintech every year across the Hopper app, Hopper.com and its global HTS partners.
- The app has over 120 million downloads, and 70% of our users are Gen-Z and Millennials travelers.
- Our fintech products – including Cancel for Any Reason, Disruption Assistance for Any Reason and Price Freeze – have exceptionally strong CSAT because the terms are always clear, and customers receive instant, no-questions-asked resolutions.
- Almost 30% of our app customers purchase at least one fintech product when making a booking. Of Hopper app customers who purchase fintech, they purchase 1.7 fintech products on average per order.
- Given the success of its fintech products, Hopper launched in B2B business, HTS (Hopper Technology Solutions), which today represents more than 75% of the business.
- Through HTS, any travel provider (airlines, hotels, banks, travel agencies, etc.) can integrate and seamlessly distribute Hopper’s fintech or travel inventory on their direct channels.
As its first HTS partnership, the company partnered with Capital One to co-develop Capital One Travel, a new travel portal designed specifically for cardholders. - Other HTS partners include Air Canada, AirAsia MOVE, CommBank, Nubank, Tripadvisor and many more – with several new partnerships to be announced this year.
Hopper has raised over $750 million USD of private capital and is backed by some of the largest institutional investors and banks in the world.
Come take off with us!
