Sr. Software Engineer - Fintech / Disruption and Insurance (100% Remote)

About the job

Do you want to substantially impact the future of Hopper's travel technology? We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join our Fintech team and help us innovate the evolution of travel selling and booking technology. Fintech contributes to 70% of the company's overall revenue. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for architecting and overseeing the AI-accelerated development of sophisticated systems, ensuring high-quality output through expert guidance of generative AI tools.

We’re seeking an experienced Software Engineer to join our team to help us grow and mature the Disruption and Insurance category of Hopper’s fintech portfolio of products.

What would your day-to-day look like

- Planning, investigating, or scoping out an upcoming project that you own.

- Mentoring other team members.

- Leveraging AI agents and LLMs to generate production-ready code, focusing your expertise on high-level architectural alignment and achieving business objectives.

- Learning about new advancements with AI, and applying it to something you’re working on.While Hopper has a low-meeting culture (no one has more than 10 hours of meetings scheduled at the start of a week, including managers), we find value in regular meetings to discuss ongoing projects with the team and plan work for upcoming sprints.

An ideal candidate has

- Experienced in full-stack development.

- Strong business understanding, and a product-focused approach to engineering.

- Adept at utilizing AI in their day-to-day workflow, and building autonomous agentic systems.

- Solid understanding of system architecture, focusing on designing scalable and maintainable solutions.

- Skilled in various service communication methods, including gRPC, pub/sub, and REST.

- Knowledgeable in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and cloud-native development best practices.

- Experienced in deploying infrastructure using Terraform or similar tools.

- Demonstrated ability to lead and deliver complex projects from inception to production.

- Committed to enhancing system quality and reliability, showcasing excellence in software engineering practices.

- Professional background in the travel or fintech industries, with an understanding of their specific challenges and requirements.



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.