Hopper is a leading travel platform on a mission to revolutionize the travel experience through innovative fintech solutions. The Senior Full-Stack Engineer will be integral in building scalable backend systems for Hopper's proprietary fintech offerings, collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance the user experience.
Responsibilities:
- Iterate on features in an agile manner using Scala and React (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
Requirements:
- 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/or React and its libraries
- Prior airline/travel industry or eCommerce experience
- Experience in UX design, using tools like Figma