Senior Fullstack / Web Engineer, Fintech (Remote)

Remote-US / New York City / New Jersey, United States / New York, United States / Seattle / San Francisco / San Jose / San Diego / Los AngelesFintech – Engineering /Full-Time /RemoteAbout the jobA stellar opportunity to have a massive impact: join a growing team at a company continually redefining how people travel. As Senior Web/Fullstack Engineer (70 to 80% Front-end work), you will be directly responsible for many of the innovative features we’ll be working on. Whether it's collaborating with our outstanding design and product teams or helping our data science group, you'll work on bleeding-edge to personalize travel for our ever-expanding population of members.In the Hopper Fintech team, we are constantly identifying unique opportunities to help our customers plan their trips better with planning tools like Price Freeze, which allow our customers to protect themselves against price increases as they plan their trip, helping them reduce some of the anxiety around travel planning. As a developer at Hopper, you will obsess about UI and user experience. You will also move quickly and help us experiment and iterate fast. You will collaborate with developers, product managers and designers, and break down sophisticated problems into small pieces suitable for quick iterations.The ideal candidate is passionate about building high-quality software and takes ownership of their work. You should be adept at quickly delivering quality results and be able to differentiate between critical initial requirements and areas that can be iteratively improved. We'd love to hear from you if you thrive in a fast-paced environment and enjoy creative problem-solving.What your day-to-day would look like:You will be a hands-on contributor helping to design, build and scale our frontend implementation and architect reusable solutions for product distribution. You will help us deliver a frontend platform for white label sites as well as extending the platform to bring new choices for features for our customers to use. We will also try to make our frontend implementation reusable and easily configurable, with a major goal of being able to deploy new portals in weeks versus months.An ideal candidate has:Thrived in frontend technologies and delivered delightful user experiences at scale. 5+ years of experience building large-scale frontend systems with React/TypescriptExperience designing, building and improving a set of team owned componentsExperience defining API schemas and developing backend services in a microservices environmentAbility to architect scalable and efficient React applications that can be modularized and reused as SDKsHas Full stack background, functional programming experience strongly preferred (Java, Scala, etc…)A passionate focus on quality, writing testable code that performs and scalesAbility to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and adapt to changing prioritiesExcellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholdersBeing a great communicator, who can advocate for their proposals while also empathizing with the teammates' goals and prioritiesPerks & Benefits: Well-funded and proven startup with large ambitions, competitive salary and the upsides of pre-IPO equity packagesUnlimited PTOCarrot Cash travel stipendFlexdesk All Access Pass AND Work-from-home stipendPlease ask us about our very generous parental leave, much above industry standards!Entrepreneurial culture where pushing limits and taking risks is everyday businessOpen communication with management and company leadershipSmall, dynamic teams = massive impact100% employer paid medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance plansUp to 4000$ per year in Health Reimbursement Account (HRA)FSA/ DCA: Hopper offers pre-tax deduction for out-of-pocket expenditures for health and dependent care costs.Access to a 401K planAnnual maximum** is $3,200 for health care, and $5000 for dependent care.$150,000 - $350,000 a yearThe yearly total compensation for this senior position ranges from $150,000 to $350,000 USD. Compensation will be determined by candidates' relevant qualifications, knowledge, skills and work experience. Total compensation can include a solid base salary and will also include equity (options / RSUs), sign-on bonus and other potential incentives.#posttoexternalMore about HopperAt 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. Ranked the third largest online travel agency in North America, the 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 global travel agency and travel fintech provider 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:Hopper sells billion worth of travel and travel fintech every year. In 2023, over 1.3 billion trips were planned through the Hopper app and our HTS partnerships. Our fintech products – including Price Freeze, Flexibility 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 50% 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 with many more in the pipeline. Featured in Apple’s Best of the App Store list of Essential Travel Apps in 2023 and recognized by the likes of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, 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 agency 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. Hopper is primed to continue its acceleration as the world’s fastest-growing mobile-first travel marketplace. Come take off with us!