Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Das ist der Job

Today, we have sales of 100s of millions of $s a year and are growing rapidly.

Darum lohnt es sich

Now is the right time While we have a fast‑growing business, we are still very early in our journey with a large upside to capture and have a team that is small enough for you to have an indelible outsized impact on our journey.

What makes this role special: First‑hand experience to build things from the scratch, have the onus of their projects and work with a team where out‑of‑the‑box solutions are welcomed.

EEO statement At Headout, we don’t just accept differences — we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our partners, and the community at large.

In an increasingly digital world, there is a desperate need to augment our human experience by getting us to interact with the real world around us and the people in it. At Headout, our mission is to be the easiest, fastest, and the most delightful way to head out to our next real‑life experience.

We do this by running a managed marketplace to the world’s most exceptional real‑life experiences — from immersive tours to museums to live events and everything in between.

We’ve got scale, fast growth, and solid fundamentals Headout has served tens of millions of guests from 196 countries (every single sovereign state on the planet) on one of our experiences across 100+ cities in 14 languages. Contrary to the norm, we deliver this scale and growth while being profitable.

We've been unit profitable for 18 months+ and have recently turned EBITDA profitable as well. We have raised $60M+ from top‑tier investors and are building a durable company for the long term - because that's what our mission needs and deserves. We are not too early, we are not too late.

Our culture Every place has its own beat and we are no different. We are not the right place for everybody but we are the right place for a certain group of people.

Read more about it here: https://bit.ly/HeadoutPlaybook The role: Our Senior Software Backend Developer would be responsible for designing and building core modules on the application and infrastructure layer. They would solve challenging architectural and design problems.

They would build and contribute to open‑source libraries and components, and be responsible for building concurrent, performant, and scalable services that will power the entire Headout ecosystem. Build a plethora of services on different platforms and databases. Flexibility to work on different tech stacks.

First‑hand experience of 5x growth of a company and while you are at it contribute to the architecting solutions. What skills & experience do you need: Strong CS fundamentals, and good working knowledge of classic algorithms and data structures. 2+ years of 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, and AWS. Experience designing scalable, fault‑tolerant systems and databases. Experience with setting up systems and infrastructure.

Solid understanding of how the web works and its underlying communication protocols. Desired Skills: C, Golang, Java, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Scala, Django, Hibernate, J2EE, Ruby on Rails, Spring, Struts An interest in travel, local experiences, hospitality & interested in being an early employee at a growing company.

An experience in starting or scaling a successful startup. Anything out‑of‑the‑box that can surprise us. Headout provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age or disability.

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