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 9 languages. Today, we have sales of 100s of millions of $s a year and are growing rapidly. 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.
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. 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:
As a 'Software Engineer, Backend' at Headout, you will own the development and delivery of key backend modules and new product features, taking full end-to-end accountability. Collaborating with a high-performing, dynamic team, you'll address complex architectural challenges and design scalable, high-performance services that power the Headout ecosystem. You'll work across a diverse tech stack, including databases, frameworks, build systems, and infrastructure automation, while also contributing to open-source libraries and components.
🤩 What makes this role stand out
- Passion for Learning and Innovation: A unique opportunity to explore and work with cutting-edge technologies and frameworks, fostering continuous growth and creativity.
- Commitment to Excellence: A strong emphasis on crafting high-quality, performance-driven, modular, and scalable code that makes a lasting impact.
- Problem-Solving Mindset: The chance to tackle complex challenges, think critically from a product-first perspective, and independently bring innovative solutions to life.
- Growth and Ownership: Be a core member of a growing team, with the autonomy to take ownership of critical projects and shape the company’s direction.
- Exposure to Modern Technologies: Work in a tech-forward environment, leveraging a deep and broad spectrum of contemporary tools and frameworks.
🎯 Essential skills & experience
- 1-2 years experience developing server-side technologies using any language or framework.
- Strong CS fundamentals, good working knowledge of networks, databases and OOPs concepts.
- Excellent communication, people collaboration skills.
- Experience working with Spring, Relational Databases, Concurrent Programming, NoSQL flavors, AWS.
- Solid understanding of how the web works and its underlying communication protocols.
- Someone who can't live without solving that challenging problem that they just stumble upon.
- Someone who will give up anything to squeeze in that last bit of system performance.
💫 Bonus
- An interest in travel, local experiences & hospitality.
- An experience in starting or scaling a successful startup.
- Anything out-of-the-box that can surprise us.
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. 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. During the interview process, if you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact the recruiter assigned to your application or email us at [email protected].
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