Software Engineer, Backend

💻The role

As a Software Engineer, Backend at Headout, you will own the development and delivery of key backend modules and new product features, taking full end-to-end accountability. Collaborating with a high-performing, dynamic team, you'll address complex architectural challenges and design scalable, high-performance services that power the Headout ecosystem. You'll work across a diverse tech stack, including databases, frameworks, build systems, and infrastructure automation, while also contributing to open-source libraries and components.

🤩 What makes this role special?

• Passion for Learning and Innovation: A unique opportunity to explore and work with cutting-edge technologies and frameworks, fostering continuous growth and creativity.
• Commitment to Excellence: A strong emphasis on crafting high-quality, performance-driven, modular, and scalable code that makes a lasting impact.
• Problem-Solving Mindset: The chance to tackle complex challenges, think critically from a product-first perspective, and independently bring innovative solutions to life.
• Growth and Ownership: Be a core member of a growing team, with the freedom to take ownership of critical projects and shape the company’s direction.
• Exposure to Modern Technologies: Work in a tech-forward environment, leveraging a deep and broad spectrum of contemporary tools and frameworks.

🎯 What skills and experience do you need?

• 1-2 years experience developing server-side technologies using any language or framework.
• Strong CS fundamentals, good working knowledge of networks, databases and OOPs concepts.
• Excellent communication, people collaboration skills.
• Experience working with Spring, Relational Databases, Concurrent Programming, NoSQL flavors, AWS.
• Solid understanding of how the web works and its underlying communication protocols.
• Someone who can't live without solving that challenging problem that they just stumble upon.
• Someone who will give up anything to squeeze in that last bit of system performance.