Headout

A Talent Acquisition Professional with more than 5 years of Tech hiring experience.

<h1 class="rich-heading">The Role:</h1>Our Lead Backend Software Engineer would be fully responsible for designing and building the core modules on the application and infrastructure layer. The expectation from them would be to lead a fast-growing team of young, passionate, talented, and fun-loving superstars. They should be able to solve challenging architectural and design problems and get their hands dirty with clustering, replication, databases, building systems, infrastructure automation, etc. They would build &amp; contribute to open-source libraries and components, and take full ownership of building concurrent, performant, and scalable services that will power the entire Headout ecosystem.<h1 class="rich-heading">What makes this role special?</h1><ul><li>Opportunity to build a world-class team.</li><li>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.&nbsp;</li><li>Build a plethora of services on different platforms and databases.&nbsp;</li><li>Flexibility to work on different tech stacks.&nbsp;</li><li>First-hand experience of 5x growth of a company and while you are at it contribute to the architecting solutions.</li></ul><h1 class="rich-heading">What skills &amp; experience do you need?</h1><ul><li>Strong CS fundamentals, good working knowledge of classic algorithms and data structures. </li><li>5+ years experience developing server-side technologies using any language or framework.</li><li>Excellent communication, collaboration and people management skills.</li><li>Experience working with Spring, Relational Databases, Concurrent Programming, NoSQL flavors, AWS.</li><li>Experience designing scalable, fault-tolerant systems and databases.</li><li>Experience with setting up systems and infrastructure.</li><li>Solid understanding of how the web works and its underlying communication protocols.</li><li>Knack for writing the most performance optimized code along with it being modular and scalable.</li></ul><h3 class="rich-heading">Bonus: </h3><ul><li>An interest in travel, local experiences &amp; hospitality.</li><li>An experience in starting or scaling a successful startup.</li><li>Anything out-of-the-box that can surprise us.
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Lead Software Engineer, Backend