Engineering Manager

11 Hours ago โ€ข 7 Years + โ€ข Full Stack Development

About the job

Job Description

Lead a product engineering team at Headout, responsible for designing and building core application and infrastructure modules. Collaborate with multiple teams to launch new features and user experiences at scale. Mentor and develop team members, contributing to their career growth. Build a world-class engineering team by hiring diverse engineers. Develop scalable processes and frameworks to optimize for innovation, speed, and quality. Define the strategic direction and roadmap for the team, solving challenging architectural and design problems. Build concurrent, performant, and scalable services for the Headout ecosystem. Requires 7+ years of experience in high-performance application development, preferably in a high-growth startup. Excellent communication, collaboration, and people management skills are essential.
Must have:
  • 7+ years experience in high-performance application development
  • Excellent communication and people management skills
  • Experience building frontend or backend applications
  • Understanding of web technologies and communication protocols
  • Lead and mentor engineering teams
Good to have:
  • Experience with ReactJS, ReactNative, Kotlin, Spring, MariaDB, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS
  • Experience hiring engineers in a high-growth startup

๐Ÿš€ Why Headout?

What we do is important

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 worldโ€™s most exceptional real-life experiences โ€” from immersive tours to museums to live events and everything in between.

Weโ€™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

๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ’ป 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.

๐ŸŒŸ 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.

๐Ÿ’ 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.

๐Ÿงฉ Our Tech Stack

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

EEO statement

At Headout, we donโ€™t just accept differences โ€” 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 life@headout.com.

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.

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