At Hopper, we’re on a mission to build the most customer-centric travel company on earth. We are leveraging the power that comes from Virtual Interlining offers customers additional travel options by combining together multiple individual travel segments through self-transfers. These unique itineraries unlock new destinations, save customers time, money, and offer customers increased selection when they are booking travel. The Fare Construction and Caching team is responsible for generating this inventory.  It sits in a rare spot combining data science, algorithmic development, and high traffic scalability concerns.

Due to the nature of the problem we use a lot of data, and are looking to hire a Senior Software Engineer who has a track record of owning and solving ambiguous problems in a data driven way. Candidates will be equally comfortable processing large volumes of data to understand historical search and booking trends in SQL, as well as diving into our existing algorithms and updating how we traverse the graph of possible airline flights. Candidates should have a proven track record of taking problems, understanding the business and technical requirements & limitations and creating robust solutions. They should not be afraid of critically thinking about existing systems/processes and suggesting viable alternatives. 

What would your day-to-day look like:

• This role is going to have a lot of variety in projects and ownership, so we are looking for someone who is comfortable flexing between data and software engineering.
• You are comfortable and self-sufficient doing data analytics to produce actionable insights
• Experienced with data engineering including ETL & streaming pipelines
• Contribute to our existing (Scala) codebase.

An ideal candidate has:

• 2+ years working in or with data engineering teams, and are used to dealing with both batch and streaming data AND 2+ years of experience in software engineering and/or application development
• Created product data pipelines from scratch, owning the data dictionaries, data quality checks, and dataflows.
• Experience ingesting data from both internal and external sources.
• Expert SQL skills.
• Pragmatic Scala experience, we’re not writing Haskell in the JVM but neither are we just using Scala as a “better Java”
• Experience taking business goals and constructing actionable deliveries from the data available.
• Good CS fundamentals of algorithmic development specifically graph traversal problems.
• Air travel industry knowledge and/or enthusiasm

Perks of working with us:

• Well-funded and proven startup with large ambitions, competitive salary
• Quarterly performance bonus
• Unlimited PTO
• Carrot Cash travel stipend
• Flexdesk All Access Pass AND Work-from-home stipend
• Please ask us about our very generous parental leave, much above industry standards!
• Entrepreneurial culture where pushing limits and taking risks is everyday business
• Open communication with management and company leadership
• Small, dynamic teams = massive impact
• 100% employer paid medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance plans
• Health Reimbursement Account (HRA)
• FSA/ DCA: Hopper offers pre-tax deduction for out-of-pocket expenditures for health and dependent care
• costs*
• Access to a 401K plan
• Annual maximum** is $3,200 for health care, and $5000 for dependent care.

$150,000 - $350,000 a year

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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.

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

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.