Senior Software Engineer, Backend

2 days ago

Austin, TX, United States Hopper Full time
Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Fintech

Hopper | Posted Oct 31, 2025

Full-time

Austin, TX

About The Job

Hoppers Hotel Cancel For Any Reason (CFAR) team is responsible for integrating our proprietary fintech offerings with some of the largest travel companies in the world, as well as our own direct-to-customer offerings. The role is both B2C and B2B2C. We build systems and fintech offerings that scale globally, evolving new solutions and translating them into customer and business value for Hopper.

We are looking for a Senior Backend Developer to join our growing fintech team. You will have the opportunity to deliver an outsized impact on critical roadmaps.

What Would Your Day-to-day Look Like
  • Iterate on features in an agile manner using Scala (no prior Scala experience required) and technologies like GCP, OpenAPI, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, among others.
  • Decide how to best build core systems within our microservices architecture.
  • Ship your first code in days, iterating on features in an agile manner.
  • Collaborate with a diverse group of people, giving and receiving feedback for growth.
  • Execute on big opportunities, helping Hopper rise to the top of the travel industry.
An Ideal Candidate Has
  • The ability to bring leading industry techniques and technologies to the table.
  • A strong understanding of distributed systems and how architectural decisions affect performance and maintainability.
  • Excelled in cross-functional teams, working fluidly with Product Managers, Data Scientists, Frontend Engineers, and other specialists.
  • A passionate focus on quality, writing testable code that performs and scales.
  • The ability to work with minimal guidance, be proactive, and handle uncertainty, ambiguity, and the challenge of quickly evolving goals.
  • Prior cloud experience.
  • Experience with Scala and its libraries.
  • Prior travel or eCommerce experience.
  • Experience and desire to contribute to front ends as a full?stack engineer is a plus, especially React web front ends.
Perks and Benefits of Working With Us
  • Well?funded startup with competitive salary and pre?IPO equity packages.
  • Unlimited PTO.
  • Carrot Cash travel stipend.
  • Access to co?working space on demand via FlexDesk and a work?from?home stipend.
  • Generous parental leave above industry standards.
  • Entrepreneurial culture with daily risk?taking.
  • Open communication with management and company leadership.
  • Small, dynamic teams providing massive impact.
  • 100% employer paid medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Access to disability and life insurance.
  • Health reimbursement account (HRA).
  • Dental/vision and 401(k) plan access.

About Hopper

Hopper is on a mission to become the leading travel platform globallypowering a mobile app, website, and B2B business (HTS). Leveraging data and advanced machine learning, Hopper combines its travel agency offering with proprietary fintech products to bring transparency, flexibility, and savings to travelers worldwide.

Hoppers platform serves hundreds of millions of travelers, with the app downloaded over 120?million times. The company has evolved into a travel fintech provider, commerce platform, and global travel agency. Through HTS, Hopper supercharges partners direct channels by integrating fintech products and end?to?end travel portals.

Recent growth includes billions of dollars worth of travel and fintech sold via Hopper and HTS channels, highly positive CSAT for fintech products, and an expanding portfolio of B2B partners such as Capital One, Air Canada, Uber, and many more.

Hopper has raised over $750?million USD of private capital and is backed by leading institutional investors worldwide. It is positioned to continue growth as a leading travel ecommerce provider in a $1?trillion online shopping category.

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