Engineering Manager - Backend

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.
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• 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.