Staff Engineer, Backend

About the role

As a Staff Engineer at Headout, you will drive architectural excellence and technical strategy across multiple product engineering pods. You'll solve some of our most complex, high-impact engineering challenges: designing very low-latency systems that power dynamic pricing strategies, processing large-scale inventory data across tens of thousands of products, and managing vendor ecosystem coordination spanning almost half a million vendors growing everyday.

What you'll do

• Drive architectural excellence and technical strategy across multiple product engineering pods
• Influence critical decisions on architecture trade-offs, ensuring we build for both today's needs and tomorrow's scale

What you need

• 8–14 yrs of experience
• System design
• Java
• Spring Boot
• PostgreSQL
• MongoDB
• AWS
• Any graduate

Good to have

• Kafka
• Redis
• Kotlin
• Design systems
• NoSQL