Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Fintech

Job Description

<p><h3>Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Fintech</h3>
<p><b>About The Job</b></p>
<p>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. The role is both B2C and B2B2C. We construct systems and build fintech offerings to scale globally, evolving and innovating on current and new offerings to deliver customer and business value to Hopper.</p>
<p>We are looking for a Senior Backend Developer to join the growing fintech team. You will have the opportunity to deliver an outsized impact for the company on a critical roadmap. As a Sr. Software Engineer you will be responsible for designing, implementing, deploying and operating the complex backend systems that power our integrations.</p>
<h3>What Would Your Day-to-day Look Like</h3>
<ul>
<li>Iterate on features in an agile manner using Scala (no prior experience required) and technologies like GCP, OpenAPI, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, among others.</li>
<li>Decide how to best build core systems in the context of our microservices architecture.</li>
<li>Ship your first code in days, iterating on features in an agile manner.</li>
<li>Collaborate with a diverse group of people, giving and receiving feedback for growth.</li>
<li>Execute on big opportunities, helping Hopper rise to the top of the travel industry.</li>
</ul>
<h3>An Ideal Candidate Has</h3>
<ul>
<li>The ability to bring leading industry techniques and technologies to the table.</li>
<li>A strong understanding of distributed systems and how architectural decisions affect performance and maintainability.</li>
<li>Excelled in cross-functional teams, working fluidly with Product Managers, Data Scientists, Frontend Engineers, and other skilled specialists.</li>
<li>A passionate focus on quality, writing testable code that performs and scales.</li>
<li>The ability to work with minimal guidance, be proactive and to handle uncertainty, ambiguity and evolving goals.</li>
<li>Prior cloud experience.</li>
<li>Working with Scala and its libraries.</li>
<li>Prior travel or eCommerce experience.</li>
<li>Experience and desire to contribute to front ends as a full-stack engineer is a plus, especially React web front ends.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Perks And Benefits Of Working With Us</h3>
<ul>
<li>Well-funded and proven startup with large ambitions, competitive salary and upside of pre-IPO equity packages.</li>
<li>Hopper covers 100% of the premiums for group insurance plan.</li>
<li>Life, short term and long term disability coverage.</li>
<li>HSA that covers eligible medical and dental expenses.</li>
<li>Access to telemedicine services.</li>
<li>RRSP plan with automatic pre-tax withdrawals per pay.</li>
<li>Parental leave options (generous).</li>
<li>Unlimited PTO.</li>
<li>Travel stipend and workspace benefits.</li>
<li>Entrepreneurial culture with open communication with management and leadership.</li>
<li>Small, dynamic teams with potential for massive impact.</li>
</ul>
<h3>More About Hopper</h3>
<p>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). We combine data and machine learning with our fintech products to bring transparency and savings to travelers. Our platform serves hundreds of millions of travelers globally. The Hopper app has been downloaded over 120 million times and is popular among Gen Z and millennials.</p>
<p>HTS partnerships include Capital One, Nubank, Air Canada, and others. Hopper has raised over $750 million USD and is backed by large institutional investors. HTS represents a major portion of the business and enables partners to integrate our fintech products into their channels. Compensation Range: $150K - $330K.</p>
<h3>Seniority level</h3>
<ul>
<li>Mid-Senior level</li>
</ul>
<h3>Employment type</h3>
<ul>
<li>Full-time</li>
</ul>
<h3>Job function</h3>
<ul>
<li>Engineering and Information Technology</li>
</ul>
<h3>Industries</h3>
<ul>
<li>Software Development</li>
</ul>
<p>Compensation Range: $150K - $330K</p>
<p>Location: Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada</p>
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