Hopper is redefining travel by combining a travel agency with proprietary fintech offerings, serving over 100 million monthly active users through its mobile app and partnerships with companies like CapitalOne and Air Canada.
The Fintech Foundation team is responsible for optimizing pricing for ancillary products, balancing customer demand with financial risks, and helping product teams deliver new fintech products to market quickly.
The role of a Senior Machine Learning Engineer involves delivering and operating innovative pricing solutions at scale across multiple partners.
Daily responsibilities include implementing automated ML training pipelines, building data ETL pipelines with feature engineering, developing and deploying real-time pricing solutions, monitoring for low-latency, and collaborating with data scientists and engineers.
Requirements:
Candidates must have strong development skills in Python, Scala, and SQL.
A deep understanding of machine learning algorithms and frameworks such as pandas, sklearn, flyte, and TensorFlow is required.
Familiarity with data modeling, software architecture, and distributed data processing tools is essential.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, along with attention to detail, are necessary.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills are a must for this position.
Benefits:
Employees will enjoy a competitive salary and the potential for pre-IPO equity packages at a well-funded startup.
Hopper covers 100% of premiums for the group insurance plan, including life, short-term, and long-term disability coverage.
An HSA is provided to cover eligible medical and dental expenses.
All employees and their dependents have access to telemedicine services through Dialogue.
Employees can participate in an RRSP plan with automatic pre-tax withdrawals.
The company offers a generous parental leave policy that exceeds industry standards.
Employees benefit from unlimited PTO and a Carrot Cash travel stipend.
Access to co-working space on demand and a work-from-home stipend is available.
The company promotes an entrepreneurial culture with open communication and small, dynamic teams that allow for significant impact.
