Software Development Engineer I/II - Front End

Software Engineer - Frontend

Experiencing the world we live in is fundamental to our collective happiness and progress as a society. Headout’s mission is, and will always be, to unlock this happier world by connecting amazing in-person experiences with people all over the globe, giving them the opportunity to be entertained, educated and inspired. We are evolving the way people discover the world by connecting them with exceptional experiences at the push of a button. By combining delightful product experience, data-driven decisions, sophisticated supply side logistics network, and world-class operations, our single minded focus is on solving a huge basic human problem: how do we have a good time? On this mission, we've already served 7M+ guests from 190 countries who have headed out to an experience with us. While building scale that drives $200M+ in annualised sales, we hit profitability that is such a rarity on the back of our superior model.

As travel and in-person experiences recover, Headout is playing a critical role in our return to our way-of-life. With pent-up demand, generation and digitisation of experiences having been pushed forward by a decade, there is no better time to build than NOW.

We at Headout, like to solve real-world problems in the simplest & most elegant manner possible. We're seeking Frontend Engineers with the ability and passion for building solutions to people-centered problems that are created at the intersection of human behavior and technology. We also love folks who have a sense of humor and know how to have fun. ;-)

👩‍💻 The Role

• Craft the front-end architecture, develop our core features, and collaborate with our Product & Design teams to build something useful and beautiful.
• Build slick UI interfaces to provide the best user experience.
• Get your hands dirty with cross-platform architectural challenges, new frameworks, design patterns, and technologies.
• Build and contribute to open-source libraries and components.

🌟 Our Dream Engineer

• A penchant for learning and building with new technologies and frameworks.
• A knack for writing the most performance optimized code along with it being modular and scalable.
• No challenge is too big to solve; love thinking product and excited to ideate & build stuff all by yourself.
• You're interested in being an early employee at a growing company, with the influence and responsibility that entails.
• You have broad and deep knowledge across a variety of contemporary technologies.

💝 We like

• 2+ years of experience developing front-end platforms preferably in a high-growth startup.
• Solid hands-on experience with Javascript ES5 and ES6.
• Experience with NodeJS, Typescript, browser dev-tools etc.
• An opinion and preferably hands-on experience of CSS in JS vs old school style of writing CSS.
• Experience developing responsive designs using open source frameworks or even better, an attempt at your own framework.
• Solid understanding of how the web works and it's underlying communication protocols.
• People who give up anything to optimize that animation that they just created.
• Nice to Haves: An interest in UX, travel, local experiences & hospitality.

● B.Tech/M.Tech degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject 

● Proven hands-on Software Development experience 

● Strong proficiency in JavaScript and the JavaScript object model is a must. 

● Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles 

● Prior experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux) 

● Familiarity with RESTful APIs 

● Familiarity with HTML / HTML5 CSS/CSS3/ Bootstrap 

● Mobile app development experience with Flutter/Dart is a big plus; or willingness to learn these technologies. 

● Experience with MySQL is a plus. 

● Preferably prior experience in working in a start-up.

• Develop new user-facing features
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability
• Assure that all user input is validated before submitting to back-end services
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders

• Strong understanding of JavaScript, its quirks, and workarounds
• Basic understanding of web markup, including HTML5 and CSS3
• Good understanding and the knowledge of advanced JavaScript libraries and frameworks such as AngularJS, KnockoutJS, BackboneJS, ReactJS, DurandalJS etc.
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around such issues
• Familiarity with JavaScript module loaders, such as Require.js and AMD
• Familiarity with front-end build tools, such as Grunt and Gulp.js
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Good understanding of browser rendering behavior and performance

• Develop and manage apps on React Native platform
• Analyse, code, debug, test, document & deploy applications
• Provide technical leadership and upgrade architecture design and solution to accommodate future expansion
• Ensure quality control processes are successfully employed.
• Experience in React-Native based app development is a must
• Experience in Mobile app development (Cross platform apps)
• Must have published at least 1 major React-Native app
• Knowledge of service workers implementation for Progressive Web Application (PWA)
• Demonstrated ability with HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, jQuery, and other JS frameworks React JS
• Development experience of UI (layouts, animations, etc.)
• Good understanding of Design and Architecture Patterns
• Understanding of iOS and Android Code signing process and deployment model
• Understanding of Unit Testing, Debugging Methodology used in React Native Apps
• Understanding on integration of native modules with React Native code
• Experience with caching and scaling techniques