Lead Software Engineer - Backend

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.