Minimum qualifications
• A passion for building customer centric software
• Thrived in complex microservices ecosystem with a proven track record of designing and developing new microservices that drive the experience for millions of users
• Thorough understanding of Web system architecture and design at scale, with ability to clearly communicate and quantify trade-offs of key decisions
• Proven ability to make tradeoffs between technical needs and delivering on business opportunities
• Experience in building prototypes and taking a data-driven approach to development, testing and measuring new ideas very quickly
• A desire to mentor and coach engineers in building stable and scalable code
• Excelled in an environment with cross-functional teams, working fluidly with Product Managers, Data Scientists, Software Developers, and other highly skilled specialists
About the job
As Principal Engineer on the Homes team, you’ll have the opportunity to work on a greenfield product within Hopper’s $1B+ travel ecosystem. You will have direct ownership of foundational features and services that will be core to the business going forward, while helping lay the technical groundwork that will enable us to move quickly while ensuring we adhere to a high standard of quality and scalability.
More about Hopper
Today, Hopper is best known as a travel app. We're going to do about $1B in sales this year and weathered the COVID storm better than anyone expected. We just raised $170M from Goldman Sachs and Capital One, and inked a deal to be the exclusive travel provider for Capital One Travel.
We owe our success, in large part, to a proprietary suite of data-driven and risk-based financial services that we have developed that complement a customer's trip-purchasing experience. One example is Price Freeze, where our customers are able to purchase a financial option in the app to lock in any price that they see, on any item, for as short as 1 hour or as long as 21 days with Hopper taking the risk on the other side of the trade.
Hopper is an award-winning online travel marketplace. We partner with airlines, hotels, homes, and car rental providers across the globe so you can feel confident you're booking the perfect vacation at the best price.
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