Director of Engineering - Backend

Headout

8 - 10 years

Bangalore

Posted: 04/10/2023

Job Description

The Role:

Craft the architecture of consumer applications, anticipate and solve strategic and scaling challenges for a fast paced growing product.
Lead a fast-growing team of young, passionate, talented and fun loving superstars.
Own the technical vision and delivery of all consumer-facing features.
Work closely with Product and Business leadership teams to build useful and beautiful experience for our customers.
Get your hands dirty with cross-platform architectural challenges, new frameworks, design patterns, and technologies.
Help to improve the development process of the consumer team to optimize for innovation, speed of delivery, and quality of user experience.
Be a talent builder to attract, mentor, and grow best in class engineers and managers in the industry.
Build and contribute to open-source libraries and components.

Our Dream Director:

A penchant for learning and building with new technologies and frameworks.
You love working with people and have worked in a leadership position in the past.
Obsessive about customer experience - everything from beautiful web experiences to latency and back-end scalability.
You have the superpower to explain and convey complex technical information in a clear and concise manner.
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 know how to hire the best talent and have played pivotal role in hiring engineers and managers in a high growth startup in past.
You love autonomy and responsibility and can navigate through ambiguity and uncertainty to figure out what needs to be done and get it done.

We like:

8+ years of experience developing consumer facing applications and platforms, preferably in a high-growth startup.
Excellent communication, collaboration and people management skills.
Solid hands-on experience in building frontend or backend applications.
You understand engineering culture and bring in best practices but also evolve at the same time. You know how to balance between creativity and process.
CSS in JS or old school style of CSS files? SQL or NoSQL? Containers vs Serverless? We love people who have strong opinions and we would love to hear and debate yours.
Obsession over good user experience. You understand what makes a good UI/UX, would go to any length to achieve that.
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.

Our Tech Stack:

ReactJS (NextJS)
ReactNative
Kotlin
Spring
MariaDB
Docker and Kubernetes
AWS

About Company

Headout is home to the world's most exceptional real-life experiences - from tours to museums to events to activities and everything in between. In a world littered with digital screens and a 'busy' lifestyle, there is a desperate need for a solution that augments our human experience by getting us to interact with the real world around us and the people in it. Headout's mission, as a counter to this problem, is to be the easiest, fastest and the most delightful way for all of us to, as the name suggests, head out to our next real-life experience. We do this by running a managed marketplace where we actively curate our supply, standardise it and upgrade it to provide a reliable and a superior service in a fragmented industry. We've served 18 million guests, have grown 5x in 2022, are well capitalised, have product-market-fit, are solving an important problem of our times and have built an impact oriented mission-first team. If what we do, why we do it and how we do it resonates with you.