Hopper
Senior Backend Engineer - Lodging and Cars
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Senior Backend Engineer - Lodging and Cars
Senior Backend Engineer (Lodging and Cars Supply) – Hopper
About the Role
Join the Lodging and Cars Supply team at the core of our lodging and cars business unit, where you’ll drive the scaling of a global hotel and car ecosystem, managing high-volume, real-time transactions.
As a senior-level individual contributor, you’ll:
- Navigate a complex microservices environment
- Deliver reliable booking fulfillment
- Integrate new lodging and car partners into our core stack
- Optimise system monitoring
Ideal for self-directed engineers who thrive with technical challenges and act independently in a high-growth, remote-first travel environment.
Your Daily Responsibilities
- Execute end-to-end technical integrations with external lodgings, cars, and GDS partners, overcoming communication protocol complexities and data schema challenges.
- Write scalable backend code in Scala, Java, or Kotlin for mission-critical lodging services—ensuring performance, maintainability, and business reliability.
- Deep-dive troubleshoot existing codebases in distributed systems, resolving production issues.
- Collaborate with Product Managers/Operations to decompose requirements into execution plans, balancing timelines and technical feasibility.
- Own the full lifecycle of product features, from technical design and testing to deployment.
- Architect low-latency, high-availability services to support seamless customer bookings under peak demand.
- Contribute to code reviews, identifying scalability and performance optimisation opportunities.
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Ideal Candidate
- Proven JVM expertise (Scala, Java, Kotlin), specializing in high-throughput, scalable services.
- Microservices ownership: Full stack responsibility for feature implementation (development → deployment).
- Distributed systems experience: Proficiency with gRPC, Pub/Sub, and REST architectures.
- Independent problem-solving: Comfort navigating ambiguity with self-initiated technical plans.
- Cross-functional collaboration: Remote-first culture demands alignment, clarity, and direct communication.
- Industry curiosity: Passion for travel tech combined with a commercial mindset forBooking fulfillment.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation including pre-IPO equity packages—higher-than-market industry standards.
- Health: 100% premium coverage via Vitality Health group insurance.
- Smart Pension: Automatically active upon joining you.
- Parental leave: Above industry norms—pioneering family-friendly policies.
- Workspaces: Access to premium FlexDesk™ co-working plus a WFH stipend.
- Travel stipend: Carrot Cash reward for your journeys.
- Flexibility: Unlimited PTO.
- Culture: Entrepreneurial mindset—innovation, risks, and bold initiatives are embedded daily.
- Transparency: Open leadership communication and open-door policies.
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Why Hopper
Our Mission
We’re redefining travel commerce as the global leader in travel platform, fintech solutions, and B2B distribution.
Powered by Mobility API, AI, and data-driven decision engines, Hopper harmonises travel booking with transparent fintech tools (e.g., Cancel for Any Reason or Flight Disruption Assistance). Our ecosystem serves expansive travel superusers—70% Gen Z and millennials.
Impact Metrics
- 120 million app downloads.
- Powering 75% of business revenue through HTS™ (our global B2B division).
- $1T+ annual market in online travel shopping—Hopper’s scoped fintech partnerships (Air Canada ✔️, UFF.com ✔️, Capital One Travel ✔️) unlock exclusive value with direct-channel integration.
Growth Momentum
- Monitors global flights, cars, and hotels for genuine savings with flexible bookings.
- CSAT” for Cancel for Any Reason / Flight Disruption Assistance exceeds 95%.
- HTS partners:
- Capital One
- Air Canada
- Uber ✔️
- Nubank ✔️
- Flair Airlines ✔️
- ** fintech partnerships** here drive up to 60% behavior retention (those adding insurance are 1.6x more likely to repurchase).
Join a Team
Marketed globally, ranked #1 in the Fast Company Innovation 50, backed by $750M+ investment, we’re shaping tomorrow’s travel.
Apply today—your impact starts here. ✈
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