WEB DEVELOPER

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.

Responsibilities:

• Knowledge of more than one technology
• Basics of Architecture and Design fundamentals
• Knowledge of Testing tools
• Knowledge of agile methodologies
• Understanding of Project life cycle activities on development and maintenance
• projects
• Understanding of one or more Estimation methodologies, Knowledge of Quality

processes

Basics of business domain to understand the business requirements

Analytical abilities, Strong Technical Skills, Good communication skills

Good understanding of the technology and domain

Ability to demonstrate a sound understanding of software quality assurance

principles, SOLID design principles and modelling methods

Awareness of latest technologies and trends

Excellent problem solving, analytical and debugging skillsTechnical and Professional

As a Technical Architect, you need to be

• Technology Expert
• Creative and self-driven
• Customer centric
• Visionary
• Comfortable operating in fast paced environment

You will closely work with Head of Product Engineering responsible for for the platform development, Chief Technology Officer driving the technology innovation, Software Development Leaders, Program Manager, SCRUM Masters, UX Designers

You will be responsible for

• Driving and defining the technical architecture of the Core SaaS platform
• Develop high-level technical specifications and design of the platform
• Define technical product roadmap to continuously enhance the platform.
• Communicate successfully all concepts and technical guidelines to development team
• Promotes and ensures use of appropriate techniques, methodologies and tools
• Bring in best of the class architectural practices in the platform

Your Qualifications

• 8 – 15 years of software product development experience, with majority of them is hands on experience developing in enterprise software product
• Experience in developing and hosting PaaS or SaaS based products/platform with hands on experience in multiple cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and so on
• Experience developing enterprise- grade software products that can perform, scale, and integrate into a broad enterprise ecosystem
• Can mentor train existing team members on aspects of architecture, design and explain, document and elaborate architecture and design changes
• Strong background in architectural principles, patterns and anti-patterns
• Must have contributed to technology tools evaluation and technical proof of concept applications
• Should have experience in multiple tech-stacks including Data Analytics tech-stacks as well.

 2+ years experience as a developer with a proven track record in on-time and successful deliveries.

- Must be highly proficient in NodeJS, Javascript and MySQL with Microservices (REST web services )

- Work end to end on micro-services and SPAs built on cutting-edge technologies like Nodejs (Strong practical experience preferred)

- Strong knowledge of database & web applications.

- Preferred : grunt, wagner, npm, passport, redix, chai

- Excellent problem solving and communication skills, so that you are able to articulate technical concepts to the team, also excellent development, and debugging skills

- Ability to learn, act, and thrive in a fast-paced environment with a distributed team

Duties & Responsibilities :

- Should be taking requirements to design and building reusable modules.

- Building, scaling and performance tuning.

- Advance understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5 and CSS3.

- Advance understanding in AWS, NPM (Node JS Package Manager), GIT and Unit testing.

- Strong work experience in Design Patterns and Algorithms.

- Experience with debugging, troubleshooting and problem-solving issues.

- Must have strong communication skills.

• 2+ years of relevant experience in Android Development.
• Should be strong in Android fundamentals (including UI design), OOP & Java fundamentals.
• Should be strong in Kotlin fundamentals and coroutines.
• Familiar with Android Architectures, Multithreading Concepts, Testing framework like JUnit, Espresso, Mockito and Reactive Programming.
• Familiar with Dependency Injection and memory optimization techniques.
• Practitioner of SOLID principles.
• Working experience in Compose and KMM (Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile) is an addon
• Should have been part of a team which has shipped at-least one App and lived through the process without too many scars
• Stellar problem solving skills
• Hunger to learn new things and ability to grasp new concepts quickly
• Ability to move quickly without breaking things too much (we are dreamers)
• Passion for developing awesome user experiences
• Ability to work under pressure which is balanced by a sense of responsibility and ownership.

Desired Candidate Profile

• Bachelors/ Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
• Minimum 3 years work experience in mobile application development
• Proficiency in Problem Solving, Data Structures and Algorithms
• Strong knowledge of design concepts and constraints on mobile platforms
• Proficiency in Java/Android
• Ability to use third party SDKs
• Familiarity with Firebase, FCM, IMA, Google Services and Facebook SDK
• Demonstrable experience building excellent mobile apps that are currently in Google Play Store
• Experience with HTML5, Java, Responsive Design and flutter    

We’re looking for a Senior Mobile Application Developer to work on Client & Internal Applications.  The successful candidate will be responsible designing, developing and implementing software solutions to address complex business issues.  The ideal applicant will be able to thrive in a highly collaborative workplace and actively engage in the development process hands-on. 

Company are looking for an Android developer - it will be a huge benefit if you are confident and able to build application in Objective C or Swift.

Requirements

• Experience with publishing APIs and in4tegrating with 3^rd party services
• Kotlin, Android, Java, Objective C, Swift
• Good knowledge of database (MySQL, SQLlite, Firebase)
• Able to publish Apps to Playstore & Appstore
• Experienced in building mobile applications that utilizes web services (SOAP / REST / JSON)
• An eye for design
• Extensive experience with Mobile features & libraries – Maps, Camera, Files, Wearables, GPS, QR Scanning etc.
• Experience with Tensorflow Lite
• Able to build responsive Ui that work with different devices
• Other programming languages are of benefit – HTML, CSS, PHP, C#