Sr Back-end Software Engineer - HTS (Capital One) - 100% remote
Boston / Austin, United States / Miami, United States
Travel Portals – Engineering /
Full-Time /
Remote
About the job
We are looking for a talented Back-End Software Engineer to join our Hopper Technology Solutions group and help create the travel experience.
In this role, you’ll collaborate with a cross-functional team of exceptional engineers, designers, and product managers to develop and deliver innovative features that elevate our products. You will also play a key role in supporting our partners, ensuring we can scale our joint ventures seamlessly and effectively.
What we're looking for
You’re passionate about building high-quality software and take pride in owning your work from concept to delivery. You thrive in fast-paced environments and excel at identifying the critical requirements needed to launch while balancing iterative improvements for long-term success.
If you love creative problem-solving, delivering results quickly, and contributing to a team that’s transforming the travel industry, we’d love to hear from you!
Our tech stack
- Our solutions are obviously a distributed system, which is operated in GCP, using a mix of database technologies. -- We use GKE for workload orchestration
- Our backend services are implemented in Scala, frontend is web (desktop and mobile) using react and typescript
What would your day-to-day look like:
- Design, build, and operate highly scalable APIs and full-stack solutions impacting the lives of millions of travelers
- Build delightful back-end features in a fast-paced, experiment-heavy (AB testing), data-driven and AGILE product lifecycle
- Conduct code reviews to ensure our codebases meet and exceed high-quality standards and best practices across the organization
- Operate autonomously but work closely with your fellow engineers as well as designer/PM to ensure high alignment
- Being part of the round table around design discussions, and product discussions, have the chance to mentor other peers as need be
- Our group operates with very few meetings and emphasizes strong alignment and asynchronous decision-making.
An ideal candidate has:
- A natural drive to fearlessly deep dive into an unknown code base while keeping their eyes on the goal to deliver results fast
- Strong product thinking: their conception of quality is anchored in the customer
- Experience with, or a willingness to learn, distributed system development in Scala
- A capacity to build robust systems being able to handle large scale of both transactions and users
Perks of working with us:
- Well-funded and proven startup with large ambitions, competitive salary and the upsides of pre-IPO equity packages.
- Unlimited PTO.
- Carrot Cash travel stipend.
- Access to co-working space on demand through FlexDesk 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 and Vision coverage for employees.
- Access to Disability & Life insurance.
- Health Reimbursement Account (HRA).
- DCA/ FSA and access to 401k plan.
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