Hopper

3 weeks ago

Staff Backend Software Engineer

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Job Summary

Build and evolve a scalable travel commerce platform that helps partners launch hotel and booking experiences faster. Own end-to-end backend features and architect durable patterns for launching new partner experiences, while collaborating with senior engineers, PMs, and business partners. Use AI agent orchestration and feedback loops to ship safely and faster—understanding LLM strengths and knowing when to intervene.

Location: Montevideo, Uruguay

Workplace: Remote

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Software Engineering

Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

•Identify and execute codebase improvements that help both humans and AI agents move fast and ship safely.
•Work with senior engineers in a low-process, trust-and-autonomy environment.
•Drive decisions asynchronously with thoughtful documentation and specs.
•Own features end-to-end, primarily backend, including architecting scalable solutions and foundational patterns.
•Partner with PMs and business partners to define and refine the roadmap and deliver partner-facing outcomes.

Key Requirements

•Experience with distributed system development in Scala and the ability to learn quickly in ambiguous codebases.
•Experience designing guardrails and feedback loops for reliable AI-assisted development.
•Strong product thinking anchored in customer experience and quality/architecture tradeoffs.
•The ability to direct AI agents and automated workflows, knowing when to intervene versus let them run.
•Ability to articulate not only how you’d solve a problem, but why and what tradeoffs you’re accepting.

Experience:TravelFintechE-commerce

Skills:Product thinkingDocumentationConsensus buildingCollaborationJudgment

Tech Stack:ScalaGCPReactTypeScriptGoPythonJavaLLMsAIAI tooling

Company Brief

Hopper

Hopper is a mobile-first travel marketplace and travel-tech provider (HTS) that uses machine learning and fintech ancillaries (Price Freeze, disruption protection) to power consumer bookings and white-label partner travel portals globally.

Industry: TravelTech

Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)

Revenue: USD 500M to 1B

Growth: Scaleup

Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)

Funding: Series E+

Headquarters: Montreal, Canada

Founded: 2007

Glassdoor: 3.2

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Hopper

3 weeks ago

Staff Backend Software Engineer

✓ Verified Job

Canonical indexed version, validated from employer's careers page.

Source: Company careers pageValidated by: Fursa AI

Last checked: 10 minutes agoStatus: Live

Job Summary

Location: Montevideo, Uruguay

Workplace: Remote

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Software Engineering

Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

•Identify and execute codebase improvements that help both humans and AI agents move fast and ship safely.
•Work with senior engineers in a low-process, trust-and-autonomy environment.
•Drive decisions asynchronously with thoughtful documentation and specs.
•Own features end-to-end, primarily backend, including architecting scalable solutions and foundational patterns.
•Partner with PMs and business partners to define and refine the roadmap and deliver partner-facing outcomes.

Key Requirements

•Experience with distributed system development in Scala and the ability to learn quickly in ambiguous codebases.
•Experience designing guardrails and feedback loops for reliable AI-assisted development.
•Strong product thinking anchored in customer experience and quality/architecture tradeoffs.
•The ability to direct AI agents and automated workflows, knowing when to intervene versus let them run.
•Ability to articulate not only how you’d solve a problem, but why and what tradeoffs you’re accepting.

Experience:TravelFintechE-commerce

Skills:Product thinkingDocumentationConsensus buildingCollaborationJudgment

Tech Stack:ScalaGCPReactTypeScriptGoPythonJavaLLMsAIAI tooling

Company Brief

Hopper

Industry: TravelTech

Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)

Revenue: USD 500M to 1B

Growth: Scaleup

Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)

Funding: Series E+

Headquarters: Montreal, Canada

Founded: 2007

Glassdoor: 3.2

Website LinkedIn Glassdoor