Hopper
Forward Deployed Engineer, Full Stack - Fintech Airlines - APAC (India - 100% Remote)
4mo ago
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Forward Deployed Engineer responsible for designing, building, and deploying scalable fintech backend systems integrated with B2B travel platforms in APAC, working remotely from India.
Responsibilities
- The Fintech team is the engine behind Hopper's most innovative and high-margin products, such as Cancel for Any Reason and Disruption Assistance . We are responsible for designing, building, and scaling the backend systems that power these proprietary fintech offerings, integrating them with some of the world's largest travel companies (airlines, banks, hotels) through our B2B platform, HTS (Hopper Technology Solutions).
- This role is at the center of Hopper's B2B strategy. As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you will operate at the intersection of technical architecture and partner deployment. You will be responsible for tailoring, scaling, and deploying our highly available, globally-scaled systems directly into our partners' platforms, providing peace of mind to millions of travelers and driving significant revenue for the company.
- We're looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer to join us in building and deploying the future of travel fintech for our HTS APAC and Enterprise partners.
- Partner-Facing Engineering: Collaborate closely with our B2B partners' technical teams to understand their requirements, design integration architectures, and deploy HTS products seamlessly into their ecosystems.
- AI-Accelerated Development: Utilize AI coding assistants and agentic workflows to rapidly iterate on features using Scala and React (no prior experience in our specific stack required).
- Architecture & Deployment: Decide how to best adapt and build core systems within the context of our microservices architecture to meet specific partner needs without compromising core product scalability.
- Rapid Impact: Ship your first code in days, balancing rapid, partner-facing deployments with long-term code maintainability.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Act as the technical bridge between Hopper’s internal Product, Data Science, and Core Engineering teams and our external partners.
- Drive B2B Growth: Execute on massive integration opportunities, directly helping Hopper rise to the top of the global travel industry.
Other
- "Vibe Coder" Mindset: Proficiency with AI coding tools. Knows how to prompt, steer, and validate AI-generated code to ship 10x faster than a traditional developer.
- Client-Facing Technical Acumen: Proven experience working directly with external clients, partners, or enterprise vendors to scope and deliver technical solutions.
- Strong Architectural Guardrails: Deep conceptual understanding of distributed systems, security, and maintainability to ensure the AI-generated solutions are robust and production-grade.
- Thriving in Ambiguity: The ability to handle the uncertainty, legacy systems, and quickly evolving goals typical of high-stakes partner deployments without breaking a sweat.
- Cloud & Stack Agility: Prior cloud experience. Confident jumping into Scala, React, or any stack the partner throws, using AI to bridge the syntax gap.
- Domain Expertise: Prior airline/travel industry or eCommerce experience is highly valued.
- Perks and benefits of working with us:
- Well-funded and proven startup with large ambitions, competitive salary and the upsides of pre-IPO equity packages.
- Carrot Cash travel stipend.
- Hopper offers a monthly cash allowance to cover the cost of private Medical, Dental and Vision & Life insurance expenses as part of your CPC (Cost-To-Company)
- Voluntary employer contribution as part of your Employee Provident Fund (EPF)
- Very generous parental leave
- Flexdesk All Access Pass & 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. More about Hopper At 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. he Hopper app has been