Software Engineer - Flights

Software Engineer - Flights About The Job

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.

Your work will be highly visible and directly responsible for:

• 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:
  Working on system design discussions, 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 junior engineers, 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.

• Feature Ownership Track Record:
  Experience 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 service communication methods such as gRPC, Pub/Sub, and REST, and practical experience in a distributed environment.
• Collaboration and Communication:
  Excellent communication skills, effectively collaborating with developers, product managers, and operations teams to achieve feature goals.

• Well-funded startup with competitive salary and pre‑IPO equity packages.
• Uncapped quarterly paid performance bonus.
• Unlimited PTO.
• Travel stipend.
• Access to co‑working spaces and work‑from‑home stipend.
• Generous parental leave above industry standards.
• Entrepreneurial culture encouraging risk‑taking.
• Open communication with management and leadership.
• Small, dynamic teams with massive impact.
• Full‑time medical, dental, vision coverage; disability & life insurance; HRA; 401(k) plan.

Hopper is on a mission to become the leading travel platform globally, powering its mobile app, website, and B2B business. Leveraging data and advanced machine learning, Hopper combines a world‑class travel agency offering with proprietary fintech products to deliver transparency, flexibility, and savings to travelers worldwide. Hopper’s platform serves hundreds of millions of travelers, and its app has been downloaded over 120 million times, predominantly by Gen Z and millennia ls.