
Lead Software Engineer - Backend
at helps travellers discover & book the most incredible tours
Lead Software Engineer - Backend
It is evolving the way people discover the world by connecting them with exceptional experiences in their city at the push of a button. We are building a magical platform that gets everyone to head out and have fun in a matter of seconds; no matter where you are and what you want to do. We are combining a delightful product experience, data-driven decisions, sophisticated supply side logistics network, and world-class operations to solve a huge basic human problem: how do we have a good time?
We’re growing rapidly with over $200M in annualized sales, 150,000 monthly transactions and profitable unit economics. We are backed by some of the finest investors in Silicon Valley & India.
We like to solve real-world problems in the simplest, most elegant manner possible. We’re looking for a QA Lead with the ability and passion for building solutions to people-centered problems that are created at the intersection of human behavior and technology. You should also be capable of building and mentoring a fast-growing passionate, young, and talented team. We love folks who have a sense of humor and know how to have fun.Dream, build and iterate. That's our mantra. Because good just isn't good enough.
👩💻 The Role
- Full responsibility of designing and building core modules on the application and infrastructure layer.
- Lead a fast-growing team of young, passionate, talented and fun loving superstars.
- Solve challenging architectural and design problems.
- Get your hands dirty with clustering, replication, databases, build systems and infrastructure automation etc.
- Be responsible for building concurrent, performant and scalable services which will power the entire Headout ecosystem.
- Build and contribute to open-source libraries and components.
🌟 Our Dream Engineer
- A penchant for learning and building with new technologies and frameworks.
- You love working with people and have worked in a lead position in the past.
- 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
- Strong CS fundamentals, good working knowledge of classic algorithms and data structures.
- 2+years experience developing server-side technologies using any language or framework.
- Excellent communication, collaboration and people management skills.
- Experience working with Spring, Relational Databases, Concurrent Programming, NoSQL flavors, AWS.
- Experience designing scalable, fault-tolerant systems and databases.
- Experience with setting setting up systems and infrastructure.
- Solid understanding of how the web works and its underlying communication protocols.
- People who can't live without solving that algorithm problem that they just stumbled upon.
- People who will give up anything to squeeze in that last bit-level performance.
- Anything else than can surprise us.
- Nice to Haves: An interest in travel, local experiences & hospitality.

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