Hopper

Sr Backend Engineer, LATAM - API (100% Remote)

Hopper

Posted 10 hours ago

Employment Type

Full Time

Location

Completely Remote

Requirements

Scala, API Development, Distributed Systems

Required Skills

Scala API Distributed Systems React TypeScript

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Design, build and operate a public API
  • Operate autonomously but work closely with your fellow engineers as well as designer/PM to ensure high alignment
  • Explore engineering improvements for the team and the product
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with the product team, other Hopper teams and external partner teams

Requirements

  • Strong product thinking: their conception of quality is anchored in the customer
  • Experience building, maintaining, documenting and operating a public API
  • Experience with, or a willingness to learn, distributed system development in Scala

Preferred Qualifications

  • 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 building, maintaining, documenting and operating a public API

Benefits

  • Well-funded and proven startup with large ambitions, competitive salary and the upsides of pre-IPO equity packages.
  • Carrot Cash travel stipend.
  • Hopper will cover 100% of the employee premiums for EOR-offered health, dental, life and short term disability insurances with SulAmerica.
  • Hopper offers employees in Brazil monthly meal vouchers
  • Very generous parental leave
  • Flexdesk All 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.

About the Company

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. We have developed several unique fintech solutions that address everything from pricing volatility to trip disruptions – helping people travel better and save more on their trips. The Hopper platform serves hundreds of millions of travelers globally and continues to capture market share around the world. he 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. While everyone knows us as the Gen Z and Millennial travel app, Hopper has evolved to become much more than that. In recent years, we’ve grown into a travel fintech provider, commerce platform, and global travel agency that powers some of the world’s largest brands. 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, Air Canada, and many more.

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