Sr Backend Engineer, LATAM - API; Remote

About The Job

Our Hopper Technology Solutions group is seeking a Backend Software Engineer. This role involves developing a public API to enable our partners to build a world‑class travel portal for their users. You will work closely with our foundation team composed of exceptional engineers, designers and product managers. You will 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.

• Our backend systems are written in Scala, and we use a suite of GCP services
• Our frontends are web apps using React + Type Script

• Design, build and operate a public API
• 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 building, maintaining, documenting and operating a public API
• 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 will offer and cover 100% of employee premiums for private Major & Minor Medical insurances
• Hopper supplements Social Security coverage for liability benefits with private insurance to cover you and your loved ones from Day 1
• Hopper provides employees with a tax‑advantageous and secured savings vehicle and matches up to a percentage of employee contributions
• Please ask us about our very generous parental leave, much above industry standards
• Unlimited PTO
• Flexdesk coworking All Access Pass and work‑from‑home stipend
• Carrot Cash travel stipend
• Hopper offers a monthly subsidy to pay for teleworking utilities
• An entrepreneurial culture where pushing limits and taking risks is everyday business
• Open communication with management and company leadership
• Small, dynamic teams = massive impact

Come take off with us!