Global marketplace for experiences and activities across 81 destinations
Headout operates a multi-destination booking platform for tours, activities, and events, serving 35M+ guests across 196 countries. The tech stack is containerized and observability-heavy (Kubernetes, Istio, Jaeger, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic), reflecting infrastructure maturity needed for high-volume distributed transactions. Active hiring spans engineering, sales, and design roles across 9 countries, with the project mix focused on geographic expansion, supply-partner onboarding, and algorithmic features (dynamic pricing, recommendations, forecasting)—indicating scaling pressure on both supply and demand sides.
Headout is a marketplace connecting travelers with experiences—tours, activities, events, and attractions—across 81 global destinations. The platform serves as a booking and discovery layer for activity operators and travelers, with availability in 7 languages. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York with 9 international offices, the company employs 201–500 people and maintains a distributed engineering footprint across India, the United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, Germany, the United States, Spain, China, and France. Current priorities include expanding into new geographic markets, scaling the vendor onboarding pipeline, and optimizing conversion and engagement metrics through search, pricing, and recommendation systems.
Kubernetes, Istio, AWS/GCP/Azure, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Terraform, Python, Go, Java, MongoDB, MySQL, Kafka, Docker, and Figma.
India, United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, Germany, United States, Spain, China, and France.
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