About the RoleJoin the Lodging and Cars Supply team at the heart of our lodging and cars business unit, where you will be instrumental in scaling a global hotel and cars ecosystem that handles high-volume, real-time transactions.
As a senior-level individual contributor, you will navigate a complex microservices environment to deliver reliable booking fulfillment, integrate new lodging and cars partners into our core stack, and optimize system monitoring. This role is designed for a self-directed engineer who excels at system exploration and immediate technical execution within an established, high-growth travel environment.
What would your day-to-day look like- Execute end-to-end technical integrations with external lodgings, cars and GDS partners while navigating complex communication protocols and distributed data schemas.
- Write clean, performant code in Scala or other JVM languages to maintain, evolve, and uphold rigorous engineering standards for mission-critical lodging services.
- Explore and troubleshoot existing complex codebases to deep-dive into infrastructure and resolve production issues in a distributed system environment.
- Partner with Product Managers and Operations to decompose business requirements into technical tasks and estimate delivery timelines.
- Take full ownership of the development lifecycle for new product features, from initial technical implementation and testing to production deployment.
- Contribute to the design of highly resilient, low-latency services to ensure a seamless booking experience for customers under high load.
- Participate in thorough code reviews and identify opportunities to optimize scalability, performance, and system health.
An ideal candidate has- Strong proficiency in Scala or other JVM languages, such as Java or Kotlin, with a focus on building scalable, high-throughput services.
- A proven track record of owning the technical implementation, testing, and deployment of features within a microservices architecture.
- Practical experience with distributed systems and service communication methods including gRPC, Pub/Sub, and REST.
- The ability to onboard quickly and handle technical ambiguity by independently exploring and executing technical plans within existing infrastructure.
- Excellent communication skills and a "bias for action" to effectively collaborate with cross-functional squads in a remote-first environment.
- A professional curiosity for the travel tech industry and a commercial mindset focused on delivering reliable booking fulfillment.
Perks & 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.
- Access to co-working space on demand through FlexDesk AND 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.
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