Outdoor navigation and content platform for tourism destinations
Outdooractive runs a 30-year-old digital platform for outdoor tourism serving nearly 5,000 local guides and tourism businesses. The tech stack is mobile-first (iOS/Android native) with a backend on Jakarta EE + PostgreSQL/PostGIS, suggesting heavy investment in geospatial data and native app performance. Active hiring is split between marketing (6 roles) and engineering/sales (5 each), with leadership gaps in community and finance — revealing a pivot toward B2B destination marketing and subscription revenue growth alongside platform scaling challenges.
Notable leadership hires: Chief Financial Officer, Head of Community Management
Outdooractive builds a destination management platform for outdoor tourism, combining mobile navigation apps (iOS/Android) with a curated content network. The product serves hikers, skiers, mountain bikers, and other outdoor enthusiasts, alongside nearly 5,000 local tourism operators, guides, and industry professionals who publish and approve routes and trails. Founded in Germany in 1994 and self-owned, the company operates from Bavaria with a distributed hiring presence across Germany and Switzerland. Core features include GPS routing, interactive maps, official route curation, and content publishing — all tied to a subscription model.
Native iOS (Swift/Xcode) and Android (Java/Android Studio), backed by Jakarta EE and Tomcat on PostgreSQL with PostGIS spatial extensions. Caching via Memcached, search via Solr, deployment via Jenkins/Git/SVN.
Immenstadt im Allgäu, Bavaria, Germany. The company was founded in 1994 and is self-owned. Active hiring in Germany and Switzerland.
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