Senior Backend Engineer – API

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Mexico.

📋 Description

• Develop, construct, and manage a public API.

• Work independently while maintaining close collaboration with fellow engineers and the designer/PM to ensure strong alignment.

• Investigate engineering enhancements for both the team and the product.

• Engage in cross-functional collaboration with the product team, other Hopper teams, and external partner teams.

• Our team operates with minimal meetings, focusing on robust alignment and asynchronous decision-making.

⛳️ Requirements

• A natural inclination to boldly explore an unfamiliar codebase while remaining focused on delivering results promptly.

• Strong product mindset: their definition of quality is rooted in customer satisfaction.

• Proven experience in building, maintaining, documenting, and operating a public API.

• Familiarity with, or a readiness to learn, distributed system development in Scala.

🏝️ Benefits

• A well-funded and established startup with ambitious goals, offering a competitive salary along with the benefits of pre-IPO equity packages.

• Hopper covers 100% of employee premiums for private Major & Minor Medical insurance.

• Hopper enhances Social Security coverage for liability benefits with private insurance, protecting you and your loved ones from Day 1.

• Employees are provided with a tax-advantageous and secure savings plan, with Hopper matching a percentage of employee contributions.

• Inquire about our exceptionally generous parental leave, which exceeds industry standards!

• Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO).

• Flexdesk coworking All Access Pass and a Work-from-home stipend.

• Carrot Cash travel stipend.

• Monthly subsidy from Hopper to cover teleworking utilities.

• An entrepreneurial environment where challenging limits and embracing risks is part of everyday operations.

• Open lines of communication with management and company leadership.

• Small, dynamic teams resulting in significant impact.