Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Fintech

Hopper; Toronto, Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Senior Backend Developer in the fintech sector, where your skills will directly influence the evolution of travel technology. In this dynamic role, you'll design and implement backend systems that enhance integrations with major travel brands. With opportunities to work in an agile environment, you'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative solutions that drive customer value. This is not just a job; it's a chance to make a significant impact in a rapidly growing industry, where your contributions will help shape the future of travel and fintech.

Benefits

100% Premium Coverage for Group Insurance

Life and Disability Coverage

Health Spending Account

Telemedicine Services

RRSP Plan with Pre-Tax Withdrawals

Generous Parental Leave

Unlimited PTO

Travel Stipend

Co-Working Space Access

Entrepreneurial Culture

Qualifications

• Understanding of distributed systems and their performance implications.
• Experience in writing scalable and testable code.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement complex backend systems for integrations.
• Collaborate with diverse teams to iterate on features.

Skills

Scala

Distributed Systems

Cloud Experience

Testable Code

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Agile Methodologies

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

GCP

OpenAPI

BigQuery

Pub/Sub

React

Job description

About the job

Hopper’s Hotel Cancel For Any Reason (CFAR) team is responsible for integrating our proprietary fintech offerings with some of the largest travel companies in the world as well as our own direct to customer offerings.

As such the role is both B2C and B2B2C. Within this vertical we construct systems and build fintech offerings to scale globally, managing how to evolve and innovate on current and new offerings, and translating that to customer value and business value to Hopper as a whole.

We're looking for a Senior Backend Developer to join our growing fintech team! Within our team you will have the opportunity to deliver an outsized impact for the company on one of the company’s most critical roadmaps.

As a Sr. Software Engineer you will be directly responsible for designing, implementing, deploying and operating the complex backend systems that power our integrations!

What would your day-to-day look like:

• Iterate on features in an agile manner using Scala (no prior experience required) and technologies like GCP, OpenAPI, BigQuery, Pub/Sub among others.

• Decide how to best build core systems in the context of our microservices architecture

• Ship your first code in days, iterating on features in an agile manner

• Collaborate with a diverse group of people, giving and receiving feedback for growth

• Execute on big opportunities, helping Hopper rise to the top of the travel industry
  

An ideal candidate has:

• The ability to bring leading industry techniques and technologies to the table

• A strong understanding of distributed systems and how architectural decisions affect performance and maintainability

• Excelled in cross-functional teams, working fluidly with Product Managers, Data Scientists, Frontend Engineers, and other highly skilled specialists

• A passionate focus on quality, writing testable code that performs and scales

• The ability to work with minimal guidance, be proactive and to handle uncertainty, ambiguity and the challenge of quickly evolving goals

• Prior cloud experience

• Working with Scala and its libraries

• Prior travel or eCommerce experience

• Experience and desire to contribute to front ends as a FS engineer is a plus, especially React web front ends

  
  Perks and benefits 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.
  
  #LI-REMOTE
  
  More about Hopper

  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. Ranked the third largest online travel agency in North America, 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.

  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 global travel agency and travel fintech provider 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.

  Here are just a few stats that demonstrate the company’s recent growth:

  Hopper sells billionworth of travel and travel fintech every year. In 2023, over 1.3 billion trips were planned through the Hopper app and our HTS partnerships.

  Our fintech products – including Price Freeze, Flexibility for Any Reason and Flight Disruption Assistance – 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; and consumers are 1.6x more likely to repurchase if they add fintech to their booking vs if they booked just travel.

  Given the success of its fintech products, Hopper launched a B2B initiative, HTS (Hopper Technology Solutions), which represents more than 50% 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, Uber, CommBank, Nubank, Flair Airlines with many more in the pipeline.

  Featured in Apple’s Best of the App Store list of Essential Travel Apps in 2023 and recognized by the likes of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, Hopper has been downloaded over 120 million times and continues to have millions of new installs each month. Hopper is now the #3 largest online travel agency in North America and 70% of our app customers are Gen-Z and millennials travelers.

  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. Hopper is primed to continue its acceleration as the world’s fastest-growing mobile-first travel marketplace.

  Come take off with us!