About the job
Do you want to substantially impact the future of Hopper's travel technology?
We're hiring a Principal Software Engineer to join our Hotel team and help us innovate the evolution of travel selling and booking technology. Hotel contributes to 70% of the company's overall revenue.
As a Software Engineer, you will be directly responsible for crafting, implementing, and deploying the sophisticated backend systems that power Hopper’s award-winning user experience.
We’re seeking an experienced Software Engineer to join our team to help us grow and mature our hotel stack.
What would your day-to-day look like:
- Planning, investigating, or scoping out an upcoming project that you own.
- Mentoring other team members, either through pair programming or asynchronously through Slack.
- Writing code, reviewing code, and improving code.
- Learning about a new technical concept, service, or GCP feature that provides value to our team.
- While Hopper has a low-meeting culture (no one has more than 10 hours of meetings scheduled at the start of a week, including managers), we find value in regular meetings to discuss ongoing projects with the team and plan work for upcoming sprints.
An ideal candidate has:
- Experienced in full-stack development, with a strong emphasis on backend skills.
- Proficient in Scala or other JVM languages (like Java), with demonstrated experience in a production setting.
- Solid understanding of system architecture, focusing on designing scalable and maintainable solutions.
- Skilled in various service communication methods, including gRPC, pub/sub, and REST.
- Knowledgeable in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and cloud-native development best practices.
- Experienced in deploying infrastructure using Terraform or similar tools.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and deliver complex, multi-month projects from inception to production.
- Committed to enhancing system quality and reliability, showcasing excellence in software engineering practices.
- Professional background in the travel with an understanding of their specific challenges and requirements.
Perks of working with us:
- Well-funded and proven startup with large ambitions, competitive salary, upsides of pre-IPO equity packages
- Hopper covers 100% of the premiums for the employee for a group insurance plan through Vitality Health.
- Automatic contributions when you start with Hopper through Smart Pension (match up to 3%*)
- Please ask us about our very generous parental leave, much above industry standards!
- Flexdesk coworking All Access Pass AND Work-from-home stipend
- Carrot Cash travel stipend
- Unlimited PTO
- 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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