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/Type Script 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.

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/Type Script, backend services in Scala and Python, and infrastructure on GCPDesign 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 idóneo candidate has6+ 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, Web RTC/SIP, streaming media, or comparable low-latency products Strength in a modern front end (React, Type Script) and depth on the backend (Scala or another JVM language, and/or Python),



along with cloud infrastructure experience on GCP or AWSA 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, Eleven Labs, Whisper, or Open AI Realtime Bonus points for working knowledge of cloud telephony or CPaa S platforms such as Twilio, Amazon Connect, Genesys, or Live Kit 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, upsides of pre-IPO equity packages Hopper covers the cost of employee premiums for private medical and dental coverage Hopper also offers private life and accident coverage Please ask us about our very generous parental leave,



much above industry standards Access to co-working space on demand through Flex Desk and a work-from-home stipend Unlimited PTOHopper offers a monthly cash allowance for gym memberships and to cover home office expenses for a comfortable remote working experience Carrot Cash travel 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 B2 B 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. 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.

Today, our partners include leading travel brands like Capital One, Nubank, Air Canada, and many more. Hopper is now the #3 largest online travel agency in North America and 70% of our app customers are Gen Z and millennial travelers. HTS is primed to continue its growth as the leading travel ecommerce provider in a $1 trillion online shopping category.

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📌 Senior full stack engineer (realtime & voice) customer experience platform (Barcelona)
🏢 Hopper
📍 Barcelona