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Staff Engineer, Backend

1 hour, 45 minutes ago
India
Full-time
Lead
Backend Engineer
Software Development
AWS Java Kafka Kotlin MariaDB MongoDB PostgreSQL Redis Spring Boot System Design
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Headout

Headout

Headout is an on-demand mobile marketplace that offers travelers access to the best tours, attractions, events, and local experiences at discounted prices. With a focus on curated experiences, Headout provides a one-stop solution for discovering and bo...

Consumer Services
251-1K
Founded 2015
$66M raised
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Description

  • Drive architectural excellence and technical strategy across multiple product engineering pods.
  • Design very low-latency systems for dynamic pricing, large-scale inventory processing, and vendor ecosystem management.
  • Own architectural decisions that span multiple teams and system boundaries.
  • Partner with Engineering Managers to reduce technical debt and improve deployment stability.
  • Build resilient system boundaries that enable sustainable scaling.
  • Lead design reviews, code reviews, and mentorship to raise engineering standards.
  • Influence technical trade-offs that balance delivery velocity with long-term scalability.
  • Collaborate across teams to solve complex distributed systems challenges.
  • Support the development of robust backend systems and cloud-native infrastructure.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of software development experience, including at least 5+ years in backend systems and distributed architectures.
  • Experience mentoring engineers and driving technical initiatives across organizational boundaries without direct authority.
  • Deep expertise in Spring Boot, Kotlin, and Java.
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts, including eventual consistency, scalability, fault tolerance, high availability, and CAP theorem trade-offs.
  • Hands-on experience with Kafka or similar event-driven architectures.
  • Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MariaDB, NoSQL systems such as MongoDB, Redis, and AWS cloud infrastructure.
  • Strong problem-solving skills with a focus on performance, reliability, and scalability.
  • Strong commitment to code quality, testing practices, and engineering standards.
  • Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Collaborative mindset with high agency, ownership, grit, resilience, and comfort working in ambiguity.

Benefits

  • Work at a profitable, fast-growing company with strong revenue and long-term momentum.
  • Have direct impact on systems serving millions of travelers worldwide.
  • Join a mission-driven company focused on real-world experiences.
  • Opportunity to work on high-scale, high-impact architectural challenges.
  • Collaborate in a culture that values ownership, craft, and impact.

Interested in this position?

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