About Hepstar

Website

Address

8th Floor, Tarquin House, 81 Loop St, Cape Town

Company Size

15-50
Summary

What we do

Hepstar enables travel merchants to maximise revenues from the sale of travel extras using personalised customer engagement and advanced e- merchandising technology.

Why Work For Us

Enter the world of travel ancillary revenue optimisation. Join a young team focused on building technology that enables and improves airline and agency travel ancillary services through the use of innovative merchandising technology. Learn the dark arts of data-driven merchandising and e-retail optimisation in a new age business environment, providing opportunities for your accelerated growth. Get exposure to a wealth of industries, including air travel, ground transportation, insure-tech, and in-destination entertainment.

Our Culture

We promote freedom of opinion, provide forums to critique and contribute towards innovations. Management maintains an open door policy and full transparency of strategy, contributing to unity within the company as well as participation in the direction of the business. We are a bunch of frugal, ambitious and hard working individuals who like to be challenged, and at the end of the day celebrate our wins.

Our Engineering Processes

Our technology is primarily written in Java. Our tech stack consist of API endpoints that our clients integrate with, administrative & reporting portals, an e-commerce website and data engineering infrastructure that forms the basis for our product recommendation engine. We’re a fast-paced agile development environment where we’re continuously building new features to stay ahead of the curve and solve for the most pressing problems our customers are facing. Being in a fast paced environment, we run our sprints in 2-week cycles with deployments happening at the end of each sprint.

Our Hiring Process

We pride ourselves on our diverse staff complement consisting of young, aspiring individuals interested in technology, that are hungry to learn, grow, take responsibility and have a hand in building a great company. The right attitude is of utmost importance.

Perks
Employee Anniversary Celebrations
Flexi-Time
Up-skilling and Promoting Internally
Half-Day Leave for your birthday
Remote & Hybrid Work Arrangements
Tech Stack

Application and Data

Amazon S3
Amazon EC2
AngularJS
Javascript
MySQL
Java
jQuery
Bootstrap
nginx
BigQuery
Google Cloud Platform
Amazon Web Services

DevOps

New Relic
Subversion
Bash

Business Tools

Trello
MailChimp
JIRA
Microsoft Teams
Confluence