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Ingénieur(E) Full Stack Senior, Hts Assist// Senior Full Stack Engineer (Realtime & Voice) Customer Experience Platform

hopper

Remoto Montréal - Remote
Development Customer Success Fullstack Scrum Master

Job Score

100 pts
Remote model (+90) Development (+10) Customer Success (+10) Fullstack (+10)

À propos du poste

HTS Assist est l'assistant d'intelligence artificielle agentique d'Hopper pour le voyage. Il résout de véritables enjeux clients, notamment les changements de vol, les annulations, les remboursements et les réservations, par clavardage et par la voix, pour certaines des plus grandes marques de voyage au monde. Nous recherchons un ingénieur ou une ingénieure full stack sénior pour piloter ce produit, en assurant la responsabilité complète de la couche vocale et temps réel, tout en contribuant à l'ensemble de la pile technologique : interfaces React/TypeScript, services Scala et Python, et infrastructure infonuagique. L'équipe est restreinte et expérimentée, la portée des responsabilités est large, et le chemin entre votre code et l'appel téléphonique d'un voyageur est court.

À quoi ressemblera votre quotidien

  • Assurer la responsabilité complète du canal vocal, y compris les intégrations de téléphonie et de CPaaS (par exemple Twilio, Amazon Connect), les pipelines de reconnaissance et de synthèse vocale en continu, l'orchestration de modèles en temps réel, ainsi que les budgets de latence et de qualité

  • Développer des fonctionnalités sur l'ensemble de la pile technologique, y compris des interfaces de clavardage web en React/TypeScript, des services back-end en Scala et Python, et une infrastructure sur GCP

  • Concevoir une architecture multilocataire, où un seul code source dessert plusieurs partenaires par configuration plutôt que par des versions distinctes

  • Construire les mécanismes de sécurité et de conformité audités par les partenaires d'entreprise, notamment les garde-fous, le filtrage de contenu et les points d'intégration de la rédaction des renseignements personnels

  • Maintenir la santé des déploiements essentiels aux revenus grâce à l'observabilité, aux alertes, à la gestion des incidents et au respect des ententes de niveau de service

  • Développer les capacités de plateforme que nos ingénieurs déployés sur le terrain configurent pour les intégrations de téléphonie des partenaires et les mises en production

  • Contribuer à l'excellence technique de l'équipe par la révision de code, les revues d'architecture et le mentorat

Le ou la candidat(e) idéal(e) possède

  • Plus de 6 ans d'expérience en génie logiciel, avec une responsabilité de niveau sénior sur des systèmes en production et une réelle polyvalence full stack

  • Une expérience concrète des systèmes en temps réel : applications vocales, WebRTC/SIP, diffusion multimédia en continu, ou produits comparables à faible latence

  • Une solide maîtrise d'un cadre front-end moderne (React, TypeScript) et une expertise back-end (Scala ou un autre langage JVM, et/ou Python), ainsi qu'une expérience en infrastructure infonuagique (GCP ou AWS)

  • Une expérience dans la conception, le développement et la maintenance d'API RESTful, de microservices ou de systèmes pilotés par événements

  • L'utilisation des outils d'intelligence artificielle pour la programmation comme partie intégrante de son flux de travail, avec le jugement nécessaire pour réviser, corriger et assumer la responsabilité de tout ce qui est mis en production

  • Une mentalité axée sur l'exploitabilité des systèmes : ententes de niveau de service, observabilité, astreintes et plans de retour en arrière

  • La capacité à décomposer des problèmes complexes, à faire des compromis pragmatiques et à livrer de façon itérative, appuyée par une communication solide avec les équipes de produit, de conception et d'opérations

  • Un atout : une expérience en IA conversationnelle ou en orchestration de modèles de langage, y compris des technologies vocales comme Deepgram, ElevenLabs, Whisper ou OpenAI Realtime

  • Un atout : une connaissance pratique des plateformes de téléphonie infonuagique ou CPaaS telles que Twilio, Amazon Connect, Genesys ou LiveKit

  • Un atout : une expérience dans la création d'outils de service à la clientèle, de gestion de la relation client, de centre de contact ou d'automatisation des processus

  • Une connaissance des technologies propres à l'industrie du voyage (PSS/GDS, PMS/CRS hôteliers) est un atout, mais non requise

Avantages sociaux

  • Une entreprise en démarrage bien financée et éprouvée, avec de grandes ambitions, un salaire compétitif et les avantages d'un régime d'actions pré-IPO

  • Hopper couvre 100 % des primes du régime d'assurance collective

  • Hopper offre une couverture vie, invalidité de courte durée et invalidité de longue durée

  • Un compte de dépenses santé qui couvre les frais médicaux et dentaires admissibles

  • Tous les employés et leurs personnes à charge ont accès aux services de télémédecine de Dialogue, en tout temps, où que vous soyez

  • Tous les employés ont accès à un régime REER avec retenues automatiques avant impôt à chaque paie

  • Renseignez-vous sur notre congé parental très généreux, bien au-delà des normes de l'industrie

  • Vacances illimitées

  • Allocation de voyage Carrot Cash

  • Accès à un espace de cotravail sur demande via FlexDesk, et une allocation pour le télétravail

  • Une culture entrepreneuriale où repousser les limites et prendre des risques fait partie du quotidien

  • Communication ouverte avec la direction et les leaders de l'entreprise

  • Des équipes petites et dynamiques, un impact considérable

À propos d'Hopper
Chez Hopper, notre mission est de devenir la plateforme de voyage numéro un au monde, en propulsant l'application mobile et le site web d'Hopper ainsi que notre division B2B, HTS (Hopper Technology Solutions). En exploitant d'importantes quantités de données et des algorithmes d'apprentissage automatique avancés, Hopper combine une offre d'agence de voyages de calibre mondial à des produits fintech propriétaires afin d'offrir transparence, flexibilité et économies aux voyageurs du monde entier. Nous avons développé plusieurs solutions fintech uniques qui répondent à tout, de la volatilité des prix aux perturbations de voyage, aidant ainsi les gens à mieux voyager et à économiser davantage sur leurs déplacements.

La plateforme Hopper sert des centaines de millions de voyageurs à l'échelle mondiale et continue de gagner des parts de marché partout dans le monde. L'application Hopper a été téléchargée plus de 120 millions de fois et est devenue particulièrement populaire auprès des jeunes voyageurs, la génération Z et les milléniaux représentant 70 % de ses utilisateurs.

Bien que tout le monde connaisse Hopper comme l'application de voyage de la génération Z et des milléniaux, l'entreprise est devenue bien plus que cela. Au cours des dernières années, nous sommes devenus un fournisseur de services fintech de voyage, une plateforme de commerce et une agence de voyages mondiale qui propulse certaines des plus grandes marques au monde.

Grâce à HTS, notre division B2B, l'entreprise renforce les canaux directs de ses partenaires en intégrant nos produits fintech à leurs sites ou en propulsant des portails de voyage de bout en bout. Aujourd'hui, nos partenaires comptent des marques de voyage de premier plan comme Capital One, Nubank, Air Canada, et bien d'autres.

Voici quelques statistiques qui démontrent la croissance récente de l'entreprise:

  • Des milliards de dollars de voyages et de produits fintech de voyage sont vendus chaque année par l'intermédiaire des canaux d'Hopper et de HTS.

  • Nos produits fintech, dont Cancel for Any Reason et Flight Disruption Assistance, affichent une satisfaction client exceptionnellement élevée, car les conditions sont toujours claires et les clients obtiennent des résolutions instantanées, sans questions.

  • Près de 30 % des clients de notre application achètent au moins un produit fintech lors d'une réservation, et les consommateurs sont 1,6 fois plus susceptibles de racheter s'ils ajoutent un produit fintech à leur réservation plutôt que de réserver seulement le voyage.

  • Devant le succès de ses produits fintech, Hopper a lancé une initiative B2B, HTS, qui représente aujourd'hui plus de 75 % de l'entreprise.

Grâce à HTS, tout fournisseur de services de voyage (compagnies aériennes, hôtels, banques, agences de voyages, etc.) peut intégrer et distribuer facilement l'inventaire fintech ou de voyage d'Hopper sur ses canaux directs. Pour son premier partenariat HTS, l'entreprise s'est associée à Capital One afin de co-développer Capital One Travel, un nouveau portail de voyage conçu spécifiquement pour les détenteurs de carte. Parmi les autres partenaires HTS figurent Air Canada, Uber, CommBank, Nubank, Flair Airlines et bien d'autres.

Hopper a été désignée entreprise la plus innovante en voyage par Fast Company. L'application Hopper a été téléchargée plus de 120 millions de fois et continue d'enregistrer des millions de nouvelles installations chaque mois. Hopper est maintenant la 3e plus grande agence de voyages en ligne en Amérique du Nord, et 70 % des clients de notre application sont des voyageurs de la génération Z et des milléniaux.

Hopper a amassé plus de 750 millions de dollars américains en capital privé et est soutenue par certains des plus importants investisseurs institutionnels et banques au monde. HTS est bien positionnée pour poursuivre sa croissance en tant que principal fournisseur de commerce électronique du voyage dans une catégorie mondiale de magasinage en ligne évaluée à 1 000 milliards de dollars. L'application et le site web d'Hopper continueront également d'être le fournisseur de voyage privilégié de la génération Z et des milléniaux.

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About the Role

HTS Assist is Hopper's agentic AI assistant for travel, resolving flight changes, cancellations, refunds, and bookings over chat and voice for some of the world's largest travel brands. We're looking for a senior full stack engineer to anchor this product, owning the realtime and voice layer end to end while building across React/TypeScript front ends, Scala and Python services, and cloud infrastructure. The team is lean and senior, ownership is broad, and the path from your code to a traveler's phone call is short.

What would your day-to-day look like

  • Own the voice channel end to end, including telephony and CPaaS integrations (e.g., Twilio, Amazon Connect), streaming speech-to-text and text-to-speech pipelines, realtime model orchestration, and latency and quality budgets

  • Build product features across the stack, including web chat front ends in React/TypeScript, backend services in Scala and Python, and infrastructure on GCP

  • Design for multi-tenant scale, with one codebase serving many partners through configuration rather than forks

  • Build the safety and compliance plumbing enterprise partners audit, including guardrails, content filtering, and PII redaction integration points

  • Keep revenue-critical deployments healthy through observability, alerting, incident response, and SLA performance

  • Build the platform capabilities forward-deployed engineers configure for partner telephony integrations and go-lives

  • Raise the engineering bar through code review, architecture reviews, and mentoring

An ideal candidate has

  • 6+ years of software engineering experience, with senior-level ownership of production systems and genuine full-stack range

  • Hands-on realtime systems experience, such as voice applications, WebRTC/SIP, streaming media, or comparable low-latency products

  • Strength in a modern front end (React, TypeScript) and depth on the backend (Scala or another JVM language, and/or Python), along with cloud infrastructure experience on GCP or AWS

  • A track record designing, building, and maintaining RESTful APIs, microservices, or event-driven systems

  • Familiarity using AI coding tools as a standard part of their workflow, with the judgment to review, correct, and own everything that ships

  • An operable-systems mindset, covering SLAs, observability, on-call rotations, and rollback plans

  • The ability to break down complex problems, make pragmatic tradeoffs, and ship iteratively, backed by strong communication across product, design, and operations

  • Bonus points for conversational AI or LLM orchestration experience, including speech technologies such as Deepgram, ElevenLabs, Whisper, or OpenAI Realtime

  • Bonus points for working knowledge of cloud telephony or CPaaS platforms such as Twilio, Amazon Connect, Genesys, or LiveKit

  • Bonus points for experience building customer service, CRM, contact center, or workflow automation tools

  • Familiarity with travel industry technologies (PSS/GDS, hotel PMS/CRS) is a plus, though not required

Perks and 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 the group insurance plan

  • Hopper offers life, short-term and long-term disability coverage

  • An 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 a 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

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. The Hopper app has been downloaded over 120 million times and has become largely popular among younger travelers, with 70% of its users being Gen Z and millennials.

While everyone knows us as the Gen Z and Millennial travel app, Hopper has evolved to become much more than that. In recent years, we've grown into a travel fintech provider, commerce platform, and global travel agency that powers some of the world's largest brands.

Through HTS, our B2B division, the company supercharges its partners' direct channels by integrating our fintech products on their sites or powering end-to-end travel portals. Today, our partners include leading travel brands like Capital One, Nubank, Air Canada, and many more.

Here are just a few stats that demonstrate the company's recent growth:

  • Billions of dollars worth of travel and travel fintech are sold through Hopper and HTS' channels every year.

  • Our fintech products, including Cancel for Any Reason and Flight Disruption Assistance, have exceptionally strong CSAT because the terms are always clear, and customers receive instant, no-questions-asked resolutions.

  • Almost 30% of our app customers purchase at least one fintech product when making a booking, and consumers are 1.6x more likely to repurchase if they add fintech to their booking versus if they booked just travel.

  • Given the success of its fintech products, Hopper launched a B2B initiative, HTS (Hopper Technology Solutions), which represents more than 75% of the business.

Through HTS, any travel provider (airlines, hotels, banks, travel agencies, etc.) can integrate and seamlessly distribute Hopper's fintech or travel inventory on their direct channels. As its first HTS partnership, the company partnered with Capital One to co-develop Capital One Travel, a new travel portal designed specifically for cardholders. Other HTS partners include Air Canada, Uber, CommBank, Nubank, Flair Airlines and many more.

Hopper has been named the #1 most innovative company in travel by Fast Company. Hopper has been downloaded over 120 million times and continues to have millions of new installs each month. Hopper is now the #3 largest online travel agency in North America and 70% of our app customers are Gen Z and millennial travelers.

Hopper has raised over $750 million USD of private capital and is backed by some of the largest institutional investors and banks in the world. HTS is primed to continue its growth as the leading travel ecommerce provider in a $1 trillion online shopping category. The Hopper app and website will also continue to be the preferred travel provider for Gen Z and Millennials.

Come take off with us!

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Enter the demand for Digital Eco-Design. This involves creating lighter interfaces, optimizing user flows to reduce screen time (saving battery life and server processing power), and adopting color palettes and assets (like SVGs instead of heavy raster images) that require less energy to render. Being a sustainable designer has become a powerful B2B selling point for agencies and freelancers alike.

Conclusion: The Evolution of Talent

The 2026 design market is highly rewarding for those who embrace complexity. The barrier to entry for making "pretty screens" has dropped significantly, but the demand for professionals who can solve intricate business problems through empathy, strategy, and the mastery of new technologies has never been higher.

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