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Software Engineer - Flights

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Job Description:

Join the core Flights Platform team at Hopper, where your contributions will directly impact a high-growth, global travel ecosystem that handles millions of users and high-volume, real-time transactions daily. This role offers significant feature ownership and a chance to deep-dive into the technical complexities of the airline industry. You will be instrumental in developing and evolving the mission-critical systems that power Hopper’s core flight booking engine.

Job Responsibility:

  • Driving Core Feature Delivery: Taking ownership of major feature releases across the entire flight booking funnel—from flight search to booking creation and post-booking fulfillment
  • Impacting Global Reach: Building scalable services that integrate new airline partners and support our B2B distribution network, enabling Hopper’s growth worldwide
  • System Reliability: Contributing directly to the design and implementation of highly resilient, low-latency services that ensure a trustworthy and seamless experience for customers under high load
  • End-to-End Feature Development: Designing, implementing, and deploying high-quality code for new flight product features, taking them from concept to production
  • System Enhancement: Participating actively in discussions around system design, identifying opportunities to improve service scalability, performance, and monitoring (SLOs/SLAs)
  • Integration Projects: Leading the technical implementation of new integrations with external airline and GDS partners, navigating complex communication protocols and data schemas
  • Code Quality and Mentorship: Upholding high standards for code quality through thorough code reviews, mentoring more junior engineers on best practices, and driving engineering excellence
  • Implementation and Review: Writing clean, performant code, contributing significantly to the codebase, and performing code reviews to maintain quality and share knowledge
  • Technical Problem Solving: Collaborating with senior engineers to troubleshoot, debug, and resolve challenging production issues in a distributed system
  • Requirements Planning: Partnering with Product Managers and Product Operations to understand business requirements, decompose features into technical tasks, and estimate delivery timelines
  • System Exploration: Deeply exploring and improving the existing codebase and contributing to engineering improvements for the core flights product

Requirements:

  • Feature Ownership Track Record: A working history of owning the technical implementation, testing, and deployment of features throughout the development life cycle
  • System Contribution: Experience working on and contributing to the design of highly available microservices in a production environment
  • Language Proficiency: Strong proficiency in Scala or other JVM languages, such as Java/Kotlin
  • Distributed Systems Experience: Familiarity with various service communication methods, including gRPC, Pub/Sub, and REST, and practical experience working in a distributed environment
  • Collaboration and Communication: Excellent communication skills, demonstrating an ability to effectively collaborate with developers, product managers, and operations teams to achieve feature goals
What we offer:
  • Well-funded and proven startup with large ambitions, competitive salary, upsides of pre-IPO equity packages
  • Uncapped quarterly paid performance bonus
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Carrot Cash travel stipend
  • Access to co-working space on demand through FlexDesk AND Work-from-home stipend
  • 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 and Vision coverage for employees
  • Access to Disability & Life insurance
  • Health Reimbursement Account (HRA)
  • DCA/ FSA and access to 401k plan

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
February 21, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Remote work
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