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About HTS Media HTS Media is Hoppers advertising and media division, built to help travel brands, destinations, and suppliers connect with travelers at scale. We power advertising placements across Hoppers app and through our B2B partner network, which includes global brands like Capital One Travel and TripAdvisor. Our mission is to build the travel industrys leading retail media network, turning advertising into a major driver of profitability for Hopper and our partners, much like Instacart, Uber, and Amazon have done in their sectors. About the Role As the foundational Data Engineer for HTS Media, you will own the data infrastructure that powers our entire advertising business. Our platform generates a massive volume of data, from ad impressions and clicks to audience segments and conversion events, that is critical to our advertisers, partners, and internal teams. Your mission is to build a robust, scalable data foundation from the ground up that transforms this raw data into the trusted, highquality datasets that power our advertiserfacing reporting and enable our future ML models. You will be responsible for the full lifecycle of data, from building realtime data pipelines to modeling data in our warehouse for analytics and reporting. You will partner closely with backend, fullstack, and product teams to power fast, accurate, and reliable reporting that will build advertiser trust. You will lay the groundwork for our ML optimization engine, which will drive adserving predictions (like CTR and conversion rates) to make our platform smarter and more performantmirroring the successful datadriven ad platforms at companies like Amazon and Instacart. Your work will be the foundation of our platforms intelligence and a key factor in our ability to deliver measurable results. Responsibilities Own the Data Architecture: Design, build, and maintain scalable and reliable ETL/ELT pipelines to process highvolume advertising data. Build the Foundation: Develop and manage our analytical data warehouse, establishing it as the single source of truth for all reporting and analytics. Enable Insights: Create clean, reliable, and performant data models that power our advertiser reporting dashboards, internal analytics, and billing systems. Ensure Data Integrity: Implement robust data quality checks, monitoring, and alerting to ensure the accuracy and trustworthiness of our data. Collaborate and Empower: Work closely with the engineering and product teams to define data requirements and deliver the necessary data infrastructure to support new ad products and features. Prepare for the Future: Build the foundational data systems that will enable future MLdriven optimizations for audience targeting and performance prediction. Experience 4+ years of data engineering experience, with a demonstrated track record of building and maintaining data infrastructure at scale. Expertlevel proficiency in SQL and a programming language like Python or Scala for data processing. Handson experience with cloudbased data warehousing solutions (e.g., BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift). Proven success building and operationalizing data pipelines using orchestration tools (e.g., SQLMesh, Airflow, dbt). Experience with realtime data streaming technologies (e.g., Google Pub/Sub, Kafka, Kinesis). Strong understanding of data modeling concepts and experience designing schemas for analytical workloads. Experience with ad tech, retail media, or largescale data systems is strongly preferred. Excellent communication skills and an ability to collaborate effectively with both technical and business stakeholders. A strong sense of ownership and the ability to operate with a high degree of autonomy in a fastpaced, entrepreneurial culture. Perks And Benefits Of Working With Us Wellfunded and proven startup with large ambitions, competitive salary and upsides of preIPO equity packages. Hopper covers 100% of the premiums for group insurance plan. Hopper offers life, shortterm and longterm disability coverage. HSA that covers eligible medical and dental expenses. All employees and dependents have access to Dialogues telemedicine services, anytime, anywhere. All employees have access to an RRSP plan with automatic pretax withdrawals per pay. Please ask us about our very generous parental leave, much above industry standards. Unlimited PTO. Carrot Cash travel stipend. Access to coworking space on demand through FlexDesk AND Workfromhome stipend. Entrepreneurial culture where pushing limits and taking risks is everyday business. Open communication with management and company leadership. Small, dynamic teams = massive impact. Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Salary: CA$145,000.00 CA$180,000.00 Come take off with us! #J-18808-Ljbffr