Senior Software Engineer

About Us

Heads Up For Tails is a one-stop pet product's brand with its paw-prints across India. We design,manufacture, and customize high quality and functional pet products to improve the quality of your pet'slife and make pet parenting delightful.

We were founded with the sole aim of making the lives of all pet companions better and on the strongbelief that pets are family. By offering products and services that make pets more comfortable, healthier,and happier, we hope to strengthen the bond between pet and parent.

With a firm belief in safety, innovation, and empathy, we create and curate a range of relevant petproducts and services. We are constantly adding to our inventory of products and services to provideparents with a holistic pet care experience and hope to become rock solid partners in each family’s petparenting journey.

We have over 1200+ employees spread across the country; with 220+ in our headquarters in Gurgaon. Wehave been awarded the ‘Brand of the Year’ Award three times (2017, 2019 and 2021), most recentlyawarded at Homburg Palace, Vienna. We have been certified as a Great Place to Work 2022 by Great Placeto Work Institute, India.

Position Summary

You’ll join a fast-moving team building the core platform that powers our rapidly growing omnichannel business, built on top of the open-source ERP, Odoo

This platform is our central nervous system — connecting sales, inventory, operations, finance, and more

You’ll be part of a senior engineering team tackling high-leverage problems with real ownership and tight feedback loops. If you're a seasoned engineer who wants to go deep on architecture, own meaningful systems end to end, and write clean, maintainable code — this role is for you.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain features in a large Python-based monolith with PostgreSQL as the primary database, built on top of Odoo.
• Develop a strong understanding of Odoo’s internal codebase to align with its architecture and design philosophy — enabling us to build features that are reliable, extensible, and maintainable.
• Own entire modules and systems — and be accountable for their quality, reliability, and long-term maintainability
• Drive engineering best practices, including code quality, testing, observability, and performance monitoring.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to turn ambiguous, real-world needs into structured, well-scoped technical solutions.
• Shape and drive the technical roadmap by staying closely aligned with both Odoo’s upcoming releases and internal business priorities — ensuring we build for what’s coming, not just what exists today.
• Partner with DevOps to improve our CI/CD pipeline, software testing infrastructure, and performance tooling.
• Actively monitor systems and performance metrics to detect — and prevent — outages or regressions before they impact the business.
• Contribute to a strong engineering culture through code reviews, weekly design reviews, quality reviews, and RCAs with other senior engineers

Minimum Qualifications, Skills and Competencies

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• 3+ years of experience building, maintaining, and improving large-scale software systems — preferably in Python.
• Strong SQL fundamentals, with experience in data modeling, query optimization, and performance tuning.
• Familiarity with best practices in testing, debugging, version control (Git), and monitoring/observability tooling.

What Heads Up For Tails Can Offer You:

Heads Up For Tails is the single largest organized leader in the growing pet care industry in India, a market thats estimated to reach INR 5475 crores by 2025. With an omni-channel network of manufacturing, retail, e-commerce and distribution, Heads Up For Tails can offer you a dynamic and ambitious work environment where you can leverage your experiences and skills to solve exciting, complex problems. We offer you a culture that thrives on ownership and initiative, where people who are excited about taking the path less travelled will thrive and succeed.