Software Engineer - Flights

You will be instrumental in developing and evolving the mission-critical systems that power Hopper’s core flight booking engine.Your work will be highly visible and directly responsible for:Driving Core Feature Delivery: Taking ownership of major feature releases across the entire flight booking funnel—from flight search to booking creation and post-booking fulfillment.Impacting Global Reach: Building scalable services that integrate new airline partners and support our B2B distribution network, enabling Hopper’s growth worldwide.System Reliability: Contributing directly to the design and implementation of highly resilient, low-latency services that ensure a trustworthy and seamless experience for customers under high load.What You Will Lead And BuildYou will be embedded within a cross-functional team, making substantial code contributions to a complex, high-throughput microservices environment. Key areas of contribution include:End-to-End Feature Development: Designing, implementing, and deploying high-quality code for new flight product features, taking them from concept to production.System Enhancement: Participating actively in discussions around system design, identifying opportunities to improve service scalability, performance, and monitoring (SLOs/SLAs).Integration Projects: Leading the technical implementation of new integrations with external airline and GDS partners, navigating complex communication protocols and data schemas.Code Quality and Mentorship: Upholding high standards for code quality through thorough code reviews, mentoring more junior engineers on best practices, and driving engineering excellence.What Would Your Day-to-day Look LikeImplementation and Review: Writing clean, performant code, contributing significantly to the codebase, and performing code reviews to maintain quality and share knowledge.Technical Problem Solving: Collaborating with senior engineers to troubleshoot, debug, and resolve challenging production issues in a distributed system.Requirements Planning: P...