Senior Backend Engineer – HTS Stays (Remote)

About the job

Did you know that Hopper technology powers some of the largest travel portals in the world? Our Hopper Technology Solutions (HTS) platform is the engine that drives travel purchases for Capital One, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Nubank, and more! HTS is growing fast and we need your help to keep accelerating!

We are seeking a talented backend engineer to assist in building a new travel portal for one of our latest HTS partners. In this role, you will collaborate directly with our client to address their business needs. You’ll design and maintain multi-tenant systems and external APIs, supporting not only our current business partner but also facilitating HTS partner integrations for companies worldwide. Our work environment prioritizes context over control, emphasizing trust and autonomy.

As a member of our cross-functional team, you will collaborate with top-tier engineers, designers, and product managers to make our partner’s vision a reality. In our team, there are no sidelines. Your voice will help drive our roadmap, define our architecture, and shape our working culture. We work for the client, but more importantly we work for one another.

The ideal candidate is passionate about building high-quality software and takes ownership of their work. You should be adept at quickly delivering quality results and be able to differentiate between critical initial requirements and areas that can be iteratively improved. We’d love to hear from you if you thrive in a fast-paced environment and enjoy creative problem-solving.

What would your day-to-day look like:
Work with a group of top-tier engineers in a low-process environment powered by trust and autonomy
Drive decisions and consensus asynchronously with thoughtful documentation
Ship fast. Learn fast. Repeat
Design and implement internal and external facing APIs to power new functionality in the HTS platform
Work directly with PMs and business partners to help define and refine our roadmap. Your voice matters.
Collaborate cross-functionally with a diverse group of people, giving and receiving feedback for growth
An ideal candidate has:
5+ years of professional full-time in software engineering with a focus on backend development
A passion for product-focused delivery rooted in ownership and stewardship
Strong communication skills that facilitate consensus across disciplines, inside and outside of an organization
Proficiency with any strongly typed language such as Scala, C#, Java, Go, Kotlin, et cetera
Experience with microservice heavy ecosystems
Experience with distributed systems and asynchronous messaging (Kafka, Azure Service Bus, Pub./Sub)
Experience working with gRPC/Protobuf
A demonstrated history of enterprise scale system design
Proficiency working in multiple cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure)
Solid problem-solving and debugging skills, with the tendency to want to automate repetitive tasks to make things easier going forward.
A passion for writing testable code and testing it – Knows what to test, what not to test, and what kinds of tests matter
Perks of working with us:
Well-funded and proven startup with large ambitions, competitive salary and upsides of pre-IPO equity packages.
Hopper covers 100% of the premiums for group insurance plan.
Hopper offers life, short term and long term disability coverage.
HSA that covers eligible medical and dental expenses.
All employees and dependents have access to Dialogue’s telemedicine services, anytime, anywhere.
All employees have access to an RRSP plan with automatic pre-tax withdrawals per pay.
Please ask us about our very generous parental leave, much above industry standards!.
Unlimited PTO.
Carrot Cash travel stipend.
Access to co-working space on demand through FlexDesk AND 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.