Teleport
Backend Software Engineer
About the job
The International Travel Agency team at Hopper is looking for a backend engineer with a professional history of owning features from the inception of an idea to the monitoring and tracking of a delivered feature.
We’re looking for a team member who enjoys working in a microservices environment and thrives in technically complex industries like travel. The team is responsible for owning all features end to end in the user booking journey across multiple verticals, such as flights, hotels, cars, and fintech.
What would your day-to-day look like:
Planning, investigating, and scoping out an upcoming project that the international team owns
Writing code, reviewing code, or improving code
Explore engineering improvements for the team and each vertical’s product
Working with our product operations team or product manager to talk through requirements to effectively implement a new feature
Meeting with another developer on the international team to discuss a new feature for project planning or pair programming
An ideal candidate has:
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.
Works well with and enjoys working in a product-focused company with a working history of owning features throughout the development life cycle
Communicates well not only with developers but product management and operations teams
Experience with and likes developing in a microservices environment
Proficiency in Scala or other JVM languages, like Java
Skilled in various service communication methods, including gRPC, pub/sub, REST, SOAP
Clear demonstration of leading and delivering complex, multi-month projects end-to-end
Thrives working in technically complex industries like travel
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.
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