About The Job
As a Senior Frontend Engineer on the Homes team, you’ll have the opportunity to work on an early stage product within Hopper’s $2B+ travel ecosystem. We are helping professional and individual hosts manage their properties on the Hopper platform, you’ll be a key person in building out new features to support our hosts being successful. You’ll also help lay the technical groundwork that will enable us to move quickly while ensuring we adhere to a high standard of quality and scalability.
As the newest travel category at Hopper, Homes is a fast-growing product that is at the beginning of its journey. This is an opportunity where you will have a massive impact on the definition and evolution of the business.
Responsibilities
- Build amazing consumer experiences, taking responsibility for code quality, scalability, reliability and performance
- Quickly prototype new ideas and run experiments to identify features that customers love
- Help shape the systems design for the homes vertical and how it integrates with our microservices architecture
- Ship code as soon as you start
- Collaborate with a diverse group of people, giving and receiving feedback for growth
Minimum Qualifications
- Love for building customer centric software
- Minimum 4+ years professional experience in frontend development
- Available examples of pixel-perfect consumer-facing work
- A passionate focus on quality, writing testable code that performs well for our consumers
- Ability to take on independent work quickly and enthusiastically
- Ability to take a project from scoping requirements through launch
- Ability to quickly assess scope of projects / give t-shirt size estimates
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working with Javascript on the frontend, preferably with React
- The ability to bring leading industry techniques and technologies to the table
- Excelled in an environment with cross-functional teams, working fluidly with Product Managers, Data Scientists, Software Developers, and other highly skilled specialists
Our tech stack
- Our front end framework of choice is React
- We have a microservice architecture with over 200+ services.
- Mostly Scala on the backend with some Python.
- We mostly host our services on Google Cloud with some on-prem.
- We use things like Pub/Sub, GCP Big Query, Cloud SQL, Redis.
- We are driven by data so Amplitude, Big Query and Datadog will be your buddies.
Benefits
- In compliance with New York regulations, this role has a base salary range between $100K USD to $200K+ USD (for local New York candidates)
- Well-funded and proven startup with large ambitions, competitive salary and stock options
- Unlimited PTO
- WeWork All Access Pass OR 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
- 100% employer-paid telemedicine, medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance plans
- Access to a Retirement Savings Plan (CAN) or 401K (US)
More About Hopper
Despite the pandemic’s impact on the travel industry, Hopper has emerged stronger than ever. As the travel industry continues to rebound, Hopper has demonstrated significant outperformance with its category-leading mobile-only marketplace, delivering value to customers and supply partners with the company’s proprietary suite of fintech offerings.
Here are just a few stats that demonstrate the company’s recent growth:
- Hopper’s valuation is now over $5B, which is more than triple our valuation from early 2020.
- According to Apptopia, Hopper was the #1 most downloaded OTA in the US in 2021. The app has over 70 million downloads.
- Given the success of its travel fintech, Hopper recently launched a B2B initiative called Hopper Cloud, where any travel provider can unlock a totally unique revenue stream by seamlessly integrating and offering Hopper’s travel content and fintech products. Hopper Cloud partners include Capital One, Kayak, Marriott, Amadeus, Trip.com, and MakeMyTrip.
- And all this recent growth is just the beginning. There are still so many new opportunities we’re excited to tackle in the next year!