A stellar opportunity to make a massive impact as a founding member of a new team focused on helping the company scale internationally.
We will build the foundational platform that all verticals (e.g.
Air, Hotel, Ground transportation) in the company will rely on for their geo-expansion efforts.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will also be responsible for scaling, improving, and operational excellence of our fully automated continuous localization solution.
You'll work with a highly skilled team of technical, data, and product-focused individuals, whose mission is to consistently find and deliver the best experience to our international customers.
You have strong software, data modeling, analytical skills, and a passion and empathy for our international users.
Everything we do is focused on customer experience, you'll be responsible for making an awesome international user experience a reality.
- Responsibilities
- Establish foundational localization workflows by crafting and sustaining a core automation framework.
- Perform analysis of new features and products to ensure they are world-ready.
- Build innovative user experiences and services for international use cases.
- Evolve and maintain our architecture, including monitoring and alerting systems.
- Collaborate closely with a fast-growing team of business stakeholders and product leaders.
- Ensure a highly available and resilient system and foster a culture of excellence.
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**Requirements**:
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- 5+ years of professional experience building and maintaining systems leveraging complex modeling and data at scale.
- Thrived in large engineering organizations working in cooperation and influencing other engineering teams.
- Excelled in cross-functional teams, working fluidly with Product Managers, Data Scientists, Mobile Engineers, and other highly skilled specialists.
- Experience launching products in international markets and solving associated problems.
- Experience building backend services, platforms, and tools to serve other developers.
- Exposure to iOS, Android, Web, and server internationalization best practices, libraries, and tools.
- Exposure to app localization processes, tools, and best practices.
- Recent hands-on experience coding and reviewing code, and designing and architecting systems and APIs.
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills and experience documenting and presenting to technical and non-technical audiences.
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Preferred Qualifications
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- Professional programming experience in mobile (iOS, Android) and back-end development (Scala, Java).
- Experience with AWS or Google Cloud Platform.
- Experience with a TMS, CLDR, ICU, or similar.
Some of the goods:
All REMOTE — you can work from anywhere (we're set up to be an employer in over 150 countries!)
VERY competitive pay and benefits
The high potential upside of pre-IPO stock options
Rapid growth: Grew 110% in 2020, on track to 3x in 2021
Despite the pandemic's impact on the travel industry, Hopper has emerged stronger than ever.
As the travel industry continues to rebound, Hopper has demonstrated significant outperformance with its category-leading mobile-only marketplace, delivering value to customers and supply partners with the company's proprietary suite of fintech offerings.
Here are just a few stats that demonstrate the company's recent growth:
- Hopper's valuation is now over $ 5B The company's valuation has more than tripled since early 2020.
- The company grew its revenue by more than 300% YoY in 2021.
Hopper's monthly revenues are now 375% higher than its pre-pandemic high point and Hopper Cloud, Hopper's new B2B initiative, is already 15% of its revenues and growing.
- According to Apptopia, Hopper was the #1 most downloaded OTA in the US in 2021.
The app has over 70 million downloads.
- Hopper's recovery is faster than the market and its share of the air travel market in North America is now 300% higher than prior to the pandemic, according to MIDT.
- The company sells over $2B in travel and travel related financial services annually
- Hopper's fintech offerings, such as Price Freeze and Rebooking Guarantee, now represent over 70% of its air revenue.
- The industry opportunity for Hopper Cloud is enormous as projections estimate that if all travel distribution channels offered travel fintech, it could increase the total consumer spend for the sector by $200 billion annually.
All this recent growth is just the beginning.
There are still so many new opportunities we're excited to tackle in the next year!