Ă€ propos du poste
Saviez-vous que la technologie de Hopper propulse certains des plus grands portails de voyage au monde ? Notre plateforme Hopper Technology Solutions (HTS) alimente les achats de voyage pour de grandes marques mondiales — des banques aux compagnies aériennes, en passant par les leaders de la fintech. Cette plateforme est essentiellement un moteur de commerce de voyage multilocataire (multi-tenant) et configurable, permettant à nos partenaires de lancer des expériences de réservation de classe mondiale plus rapidement, avec un minimum d'ingénierie personnalisée.
L'équipe Commerce Foundations est le cœur de ce moteur. Alors que nos équipes de produits se concentrent sur le « quoi », l'équipe Fondations se concentre sur le « comment ». Nous bâtissons les systèmes évolutifs, résilients et extensibles — flux de réservation, orchestration de recherche, parcours de paiement — qui propulsent nos verticaux partout dans le monde.
En tant que Staff Engineer, vous ne vous contentez pas de bâtir des fonctionnalités; vous architecturez les modèles fondamentaux qui permettent à toute notre organisation d'ingénierie de passer à l'échelle.
L'impact que vous aurez
Stratégie architecturale : Concevoir les modèles sous-jacents pour les flux de réservation et les configurations multilocataires.
Gouvernance technique : Définir la « cible visée » (North Star) pour nos systèmes distribués en Scala, en assurant des modèles robustes et maintenables.
Excellence multilocataire : Faire évoluer la plateforme vers un modèle de « configuration plutôt que personnalisation » pour un déploiement chez les partenaires sans intervention technique manuelle.
Mentorat et influence : Élever la barre pour toute l'organisation via des revues de conception approfondies et la promotion d'une culture de décision asynchrone.
Notre pile technologique
Backend et systèmes distribués : Nos services sont écrits en Scala, exploitant les modèles de programmation fonctionnelle pour la haute concurrence et la fiabilité.
Infrastructure Info nuagique : Natifs sur Google Cloud Platform (GCP), utilisant GKE, Pub/Sub et Cloud Spanner.
Fondations Frontend : Portails bâtis avec React et TypeScript, nécessitant des contrats d'API propres et documentés.
Ă€ quoi ressemblera votre quotidien ?
Souveraineté architecturale : Diriger la conception et l'exploitation de solutions API qui servent de « source unique de vérité » pour nos partenaires.
Amélioration systémique : Explorer et résoudre proactivement les goulots d'étranglement dans le code ou l'infrastructure.
Leadership de haut alignement : Opérer avec une extrême autonomie, en collaborant avec les designers et PM pour assurer l'alignement sur des feuilles de route techniques complexes sans réunions constantes.
Excellence asynchrone : Favoriser la prise de décision par une documentation de haute qualité et une communication asynchrone.
Le candidat idéal possède :
Bilinguisme essentiel : Une excellente maîtrise du français et de l'anglais (oral et écrit) est requise pour collaborer avec nos équipes et partenaires distribués mondialement.
Audace technique : Une capacité naturelle à plonger dans des bases de code complexes pour démêler la logique et implémenter des abstractions élégantes.
Maîtrise des systèmes distribués : Expérience approfondie (ou capacité à maîtriser rapidement) le développement de systèmes distribués en Scala.
Esprit « Plateforme » : Prioriser la modularité et la configuration pour supporter N partenaires avec un minimum d'intervention manuelle.
Vision pragmatique : Capacité à distinguer ce qui doit être parfait dès le départ de ce qui peut être itéré, équilibrant santé à long terme et vitesse d'exécution.
Avantages et bénéfices de travailler avec nous :Startup solide et ambitieuse : Une entreprise bien financée aux ambitions mondiales; salaire compétitif et potentiel de gain significatif grâce à nos forfaits d'équité (actions) pré-IPO.
Assurances payées à 100 % : Hopper couvre 100 % des primes du régime d'assurance collective.
Protection complète : Couverture d'assurance vie et d'assurance invalidité de courte et longue durée.
Compte de dépenses santé (HSA) : Pour couvrir vos frais médicaux et dentaires admissibles.
Télémédecine avec Dialogue : Accès illimité aux services de santé virtuels de Dialogue pour tous les employés et leurs personnes à charge, partout et en tout temps.
Épargne-retraite (REER) : Accès à un régime de REER avec retenues automatiques avant impôts sur chaque paie.
Congé parental exceptionnel : N'hésitez pas à nous questionner sur notre politique très généreuse, largement supérieure aux normes de l'industrie !
Congés illimités (PTO) : Une culture basée sur la performance et la confiance avec une politique de vacances illimitées.
Allocation de voyage « Carrot Cash » : Des crédits Hopper pour vous aider à explorer le monde.
Flexibilité du travail : Accès à des espaces de cotravail sur demande via FlexDesk ET une allocation pour le télétravail (équipement de bureau).
Culture entrepreneuriale : Un environnement oĂą repousser les limites et prendre des risques fait partie de notre quotidien.
Communication ouverte : Accès direct et transparent avec la direction et les leaders de l'entreprise.
Impact massif : De petites équipes dynamiques qui permettent une contribution concrète et visible sur nos produits mondiaux.
About the Job
Did you know Hopper technology powers some of the largest travel portals in the world? Our Hopper Technology Solutions (HTS) platform drives travel purchases for major global brands from banks to airlines to fintech leaders. This platform is essentially a configurable, multi-tenant travel commerce engine, enabling partners to launch world-class hotel and travel booking experiences faster, with less custom engineering.
The Commerce Foundations team is the core of this engine. While our product teams focus on the "what," Foundations focuses on the "how." We build scalable, resilient, and extensible systems—booking flows, search orchestration, checkout journeys, and platform capabilities—that power Stays and Packages across multiple partner portals worldwide.
As a Staff Engineer, you aren't just building features; you are architecting the foundational patterns that allow our entire engineering org to scale. You will work as a technical leader within a cross-functional team of exceptional engineers, designers, and product managers to ensure our commerce engine is world-class.
The Impact You’ll Make
Architectural Strategy: Move beyond individual features to design the underlying patterns for booking flows, checkout journeys, and multi-tenant configurations.
Technical Stewardship: Define the "North Star" for our Scala-based distributed systems, ensuring our move toward global scale is met with robust, maintainable patterns.
Multi-Tenant Excellence: Lead the evolution of our platform to support "configuration over customization," allowing partners to launch world-class experiences with zero-touch engineering.
Mentorship & Influence: Raise the bar for the entire engineering org by conducting deep-dive design reviews, mentoring senior engineers, and fostering a culture of high-ownership and asynchronous decision-making.
Our Tech Stack
Backend & Distributed Systems: Our core services are written in Scala, leveraging functional programming patterns to maintain high concurrency, type safety, and reliability across our global commerce engine.
Cloud Infrastructure: We are native to Google Cloud Platform (GCP), utilizing a suite of managed services (including GKE, Pub/Sub, and Cloud Spanner) to power a resilient, multi-tenant architecture.
Frontend Foundations: Our partner-facing portals are built with React and TypeScript, requiring clean, well-documented API contracts and full-stack solutions that enable seamless integration.
What Your Day-to-Day Will Look Like
Architectural Sovereignty: Lead the design, build, and operate API and full-stack solutions that serve as the "source of truth" for Stays and Packages across all HTS partners.
Systemic Improvement: Proactively explore and resolve engineering improvements for the team and the product—identifying bottlenecks in the codebase or infrastructure that hinder scale.
High-Alignment Leadership: Operate with extreme autonomy, working closely with fellow engineers, designers, and PMs to ensure high alignment on complex technical roadmaps without the need for constant meetings.
Cross-Functional Influence: Collaborate cross-functionally with the product team, other Hopper teams, and external partner teams to ensure foundational logic is robust and extensible.
Asynchronous Excellence: Drive decision-making through high-quality documentation and asynchronous communication, thriving in our low-meeting, high-alignment culture.
An Ideal Candidate Has
Technical Fearlessness: A natural drive to fearlessly deep dive into an unknown, complex code base to untangle logic and implement elegant abstractions while keeping eyes on the goal to deliver results fast.
Foundational Product Thinking: Strong product thinking: your conception of quality is anchored in the customer, but you understand that a great experience is built on a stable, predictable commerce engine.
Mastery of Distributed Systems: Deep experience with (or a proven ability to rapidly master) distributed system development in Scala. You understand the trade-offs of consistency, availability, and latency in a global environment.
Multi-Tenant Mindset: You prioritize "configuration over customization," building modular systems that support N partners with minimal manual intervention.
Pragmatic Vision: You can distinguish between what has to be right from the start and what can be iterated on, balancing long-term health with the need for speed.
Perks and benefits of working with us:
Well-funded and proven startup with large ambitions, competitive salary and upsides of pre-IPO equity packages.
Hopper covers 100% of the premiums for group insurance plan.
Hopper offers life, short term and long term disability coverage.
HSA that covers eligible medical and dental expenses.
All employees and dependents have access to Dialogue’s telemedicine services, anytime, anywhere.
All employees have access to an RRSP plan with automatic pre-tax withdrawals per pay.
Please ask us about our very generous parental leave, much above industry standards!.
Unlimited PTO.
Carrot Cash travel stipend.
Access to co-working space on demand through FlexDesk AND 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.
More about Hopper
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. he 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 millennials.
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 customers purchase at least one fintech product when making a booking; and consumers are 1.6x more likely to repurchase if they add fintech to their booking vs if they booked just travel.
Given the success of its fintech products, Hopper launched a B2B initiative, HTS (Hopper Technology Solutions), which represents more than 75% of the business.
Through HTS, any travel provider (airlines, hotels, banks, travel agencies, etc.) can integrate and seamlessly distribute Hopper’s fintech or travel inventory on their direct channels. As its first HTS partnership, the company partnered with Capital One to co-develop Capital One Travel, a new travel portal designed specifically for cardholders. Other HTS partners include Air Canada, Uber, CommBank, Nubank, Flair Airlines and many more.
Hopper has been named the #1 most innovative company in travel by Fast Company Hopper has been downloaded over 120 million times and continues to have millions of new installs each month. Hopper is now the #3 largest online travel agencies in North America and 70% of our app customers are Gen-Z and millennials travelers.
Hopper has raised over $750 million USD of private capital and is backed by some of the largest institutional investors and banks in the world. HTS is primed to continue its growth as the leading travel ecommerce provider in a $1 trillion online shopping category. The Hopper app and website will also continue to be the preferred travel provider for Gen Z and Millennials.
Come take off with us!
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