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
- Lead one of the product engineering team of young, passionate, talented and fun loving superstars.
- Full responsibility of designing and building core modules on the application and infrastructure layer.
- Work with multiple teams and stakeholders across organization to launch new features and user experiences at scale.
- Empower and encourage the engineering team to achieve a high level of technical productivity and quality.
- Help the team members with their career growth with constant mentoring and continuous feedbacks.
- Build a world class engineering team by hiring diverse engineers while working closely with talent acquisition team.
- Contribute and develop scalable processes and frameworks to optimize for innovation, speed of delivery, and quality of user experience.
- Work with global leadership team to define the strategic direction and roadmap for your team to deliver best in class experience to Headout users.
- Solve challenging architectural and design problems by getting 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.
🌟 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 or higher position in the past.
- Obsessive about customer experience - everything from beautiful web experiences to ultra low latency and high 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 know how to hire the best talent and have played pivotal role in hiring engineers in a high growth startup in past.
- 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.
- 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
- 7+ years experience developing high performance applications and services using any language or framework, preferably in a high-growth startup.
- Excellent communication, collaboration and people management skills.
- Solid hands-on experience in building solid 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.
- Containers vs Serverless? CSS in JS or old school style of CSS files? SQL or NoSQL? We love people who have strong opinions and we would love to hear and debate yours.
- 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.
- Solid understanding of how the web works and its underlying communication protocols.
- People who will give up anything to squeeze in that last bit-level performance.
- Anything else than can surprise us.
🧩 Our Tech Stack
- ReactJS (NextJS)
- ReactNative
- Kotlin
- Spring
- MariaDB
- Docker and Kubernetes
- AWS
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].
Privacy policy
Please note that once you apply for this job profile your personal data will be retained for a period of one (1) year. Headout shall process this data for recruitment purposes only. Once the relevant job profile is filled or once the time period of one (1) year from the date of the job application has passed, whichever is later, Headout shall either delete your data or inform you that it shall keep it in its database for future roles. In compliance with the relevant privacy laws, you have the right to request access to your personal data, to request that your personal data be rectified or erased, and to request that the processing of your personal data be restricted. If you have any concerns or questions about the way Headout handle your data, you can contact our Data Protection Officer for more information.
Top Skills
What We Do
Headout is an on-demand mobile marketplace that helps travelers discover & book the most incredible tours, activities, events & local experiences in town for the next 24 hours at exclusive discounted prices. All it takes is 3 taps and 60 seconds. We combine Uber-like convenience with HotelTonight-esque discounted pricing offering an unparalleled experience to 60% of more than 3 billion travelers that look for local experiences at the last minute.
We are the only company in the space that offers last minute deals with 15% cheaper pricing and 3x faster checkout.
iOS - http://bit.ly/tldshios
Android - http://bit.ly/tldshapp
Web - www.headout.com
Experiencing the world we live in is fundamental to our collective happiness. Headout’s mission is to unlock this happier world by connecting high-quality experiences with billions of people, giving them the opportunity to be entertained and inspired. The unique full-services brand works with small and medium experience providers to standardize a highly fragmented industry through consistent uniform upgrades to infrastructure and service levels. This gives Headout guests a comfortable and delightful experience and enhances occupancy levels, revenue and profitability for local partners.
Headout has grown 16x, is profitable and serves millions of transacting customers from 190+ countries every year. The company has offices in New York, Bangalore, Berlin, London, Dubai & Hong Kong.
