Articles about Hopper

Sam Daley

Updated on May 17, 2024

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These Boston software-as-a-service companies are offering unique and groundbreaking technologies.

Matthew Urwin

Updated on April 05, 2024

These companies are introducing AI in travel to provide a smoother experience for travelers.

We spoke with three women in tech who mapped out how they got to where they are today, and what the journey has been like for them.

These travel companies in Boston help travelers do everything from find cheap flights to plan vacations.

Jeff Rumage

Updated on November 08, 2022

The travel app continues to find new growth avenues. Its B2B product, which launched last year, comprises 40 percent of its overall revenue.

The Harvard Business Review has called data scientist the sexiest job of the 21st century. If you’re in the market for a new opportunity, check out these companies with open data science and data analyst jobs in Boston.

While the Delta variant has raised some questions about travel’s recent rebound, Hopper thinks its increasingly popular fintech products will help the industry not only weather the storm, but create a very profitable new sector. The company is now hiring, with more than 100 open tech positions at its Boston HQ.

Despite the pandemic, CEO and co-founder Fred Lalonde says Hopper’s revenue tripled in 2020, and he expects the travel industry will make a “strong recovery.” The company plans to double its headcount by the end of this year, with nearly 60 open tech positions available now at its Boston office.

Read more about how these five Boston companies leaned into the uncertainties of 2020, and the new lessons they’ll carry into 2021.  

We checked in with leaders across Boston tech to learn how they and their teams are faring, how they’ve adapted and what advice they have to share with other local leaders. 

We spoke with five Boston-area engineers — all of whom happen to be women — about what they’re working on, and how they got here.

The company’s mobile app uses machine learning to provide travelers with the best possible flight based on their needs, and it takes a lot of data to do that and the data science team makes that highly technical information more palatable for the non-data savvy among us. It also acts as the foundation of the company’s overall data-driven culture.     

With trillions of data points at its fingertips (and billions more streaming in each day), Hopper is finding new ways to understand what users want. Leaders from Hopper’s engineering and data analytics departments spoke with us about the underlying tech and data that goes into booking travel, and what’s next on the company’s itinerary.