Job highlights

- Obsessive about customer experience - everything from beautiful web experiences to ultra low latency and high back-end scalability
- Solid hands-on experience in building solid frontend or backend applications
- 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.
- Youre 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 ServerlessCSS in JS or old school style of CSS filesSQL or NoSQLWe love people who have solid 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.

📌 Engineering Manager - Backend (Bengaluru)
🏢 Headout
📍 Bengaluru