Senior Backend Ads Engineer

As a Senior Backend Engineer on the HTS Media team, you will be a core contributor to the engine that powers our entire advertising platform. You will be responsible for designing, building, and scaling the high-throughput, low-latency services that handle ad requests, run auctions, and serve millions of relevant offers to travelers in real-time. This is a mission-critical role where your work will directly impact platform performance, advertiser success, and Hopper’s bottom line. You will tackle complex challenges inherent to the ad tech space, from optimizing our real-time bidding (RTB) logic to ensuring millisecond response times under heavy load. You will serve as a technical leader, mentoring other engineers, driving architectural decisions, and setting the standard for high-quality, scalable code. If you are passionate about building distributed systems that operate at a massive scale, this is the role for you.