Sr Backend Engineer, LATAM - Core; Remote

About the job

We are looking for a backend software engineer to help build out a world‑class travel portal for users as part of our Hopper Technology Solutions group.

You will work as part of a cross‑functional team of exceptional engineers, designers and product managers to bring new features to market and provide best in class support for our partners to scale our joint business!

A successful candidate loves to build and demonstrates high ownership about outcomes, and constantly looks for and finds creative ways to deliver quality results quickly. They can distinguish between what has to be right from the start and what can be iterated on.

Tech stack:

• Our backend systems are written in Scala, and we use a suite of GCP services

• Our frontends are web apps using react + typescript

• Design, build and operate API and full‑stack solutions

• Operate autonomously but work closely with your fellow engineers as well as designer/PM to ensure high alignment

• Explore engineering improvements for the team and the product

• Collaborate cross‑functionally with the product team, other Hopper teams and external partner teams

• Our group operates with very few meetings and emphasizes strong alignment and asynchronous decision making.

• A natural drive to fearlessly deep dive into an unknown code base while keeping their eyes on the goal to deliver results fast

• Strong product thinking: their conception of quality is anchored in the customer

Experience with, or a willingness to learn, distributed system development in Scala

• Well‑funded and proven startup with large ambitions, competitive salary and upsides of pre‑IPO equity packages

• Hopper offers group medical and dental insurance to full‑time employees.

• Hopper offers life insurance with short term and long term disability coverage.

• All employees and dependents have access to telemedicine services, anytime, anywhere.

• Please ask us about our very generous parental leave, much above industry standards!.

• Unlimited PTO.

• Carrot Cash travel stipend.

• Flexdesk Access Pass & Work‑from‑home stipend.

• Entrepreneurial culture where pushing limits and taking risks is everyday business.

• Open communication with management and company leadership.

• Small, dynamic teams = massive impact.

At Hopper, we are on a mission to become the leading travel platform globally – powering Hopper’s mobile app, website and our B2B business, HTS (Hopper Technology Solutions). By leveraging massive amounts of data and advanced machine learning algorithms, Hopper combines its world‑class travel agency offering with proprietary fintech products to bring transparency, flexibility and savings to travelers globally. We have developed several unique fintech solutions that address everything from pricing volatility to trip disruptions – helping people travel better and save more on their trips.

The Hopper platform serves hundreds of millions of travelers globally and continues to capture market share around the world. the Hopper app has been downloaded over 120 million times and has become largely popular among younger travelers – with 70% of its users being Gen Z and millennia ls.

While everyone knows us as the Gen Z and Millennial travel app, Hopper has evolved to become much more than that. In recent years, we’ve grown into a travel fintech provider, commerce platform, and global travel agency that powers some of the world’s largest brands.

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.

Here are just a few stats that demonstrate the company’s recent growth:

Billions of dollars worth of travel and travel fintech are sold through Hopper and HTS’ channels every year.

Our fintech products – including Cancel for Any Reason and Flight Disruption Assistance – have exceptionally strong CSAT because the terms are always clear, and customers receive instant, no‑questions‑asked resolutions.

Almost 30% of our app…