Headstart
11 - 50 employees
💼 Consulting
📣 Marketing
📚 Education
Consulting • Marketing • Education
Headstart is an education-focused CRM and admissions automation platform designed for higher education, EdTech providers, and coaching institutions. It centralizes lead capture, nurturing, and allocation across channels and automates post-application workflows such as document verification, GD/PI scheduling, written assessments, merit-list generation, offer letters, scholarship and fee management, hostel and transport allocation. The platform provides configurable templates, campaign and publisher management, real-time reports and analytics, workflow automation, role-based user management, and integrations (including mobile apps), with an emphasis on data security and scalable SaaS architecture to streamline enrollment and improve counselor productivity.
Staff Software Engineer
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🕒 November 25, 2025
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Headstart
11 - 50 employees
💼 Consulting
📣 Marketing
📚 Education
Consulting • Marketing • Education
Headstart is an education-focused CRM and admissions automation platform designed for higher education, EdTech providers, and coaching institutions. It centralizes lead capture, nurturing, and allocation across channels and automates post-application workflows such as document verification, GD/PI scheduling, written assessments, merit-list generation, offer letters, scholarship and fee management, hostel and transport allocation. The platform provides configurable templates, campaign and publisher management, real-time reports and analytics, workflow automation, role-based user management, and integrations (including mobile apps), with an emphasis on data security and scalable SaaS architecture to streamline enrollment and improve counselor productivity.
📋 Description
• Lead and own client engagements end-to-end, from ideation and technical discovery through to production • Prototype rapidly while ensuring long-term reliability, maintainability, and security • Balance multiple concurrent engagements, context-switching between different technical stacks and business domains • Establish scalable architectural patterns, frameworks, and technical standards, that are repeatable and accelerate delivery across multiple projects • Build relationships with technical and business stakeholders and identify strategic opportunities within client relationships. • Participate in sales and product processes by providing technical credibility and architectural context to help scope work and close deals • Mentor and support the growth of other engineers while helping to define and drive the technical roadmap
🎯 Requirements
• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience • Strong interest in leveraging AI in the development lifecycle (bonus if experience) • Enjoys a fast-paced and collaborative environment • Exceptional communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences and build trust within internal team and with external clients • Proven track record owning full-stack systems: backend services (Python, FastAPI, Node.js), relational databases (Postgres/MySQL), and optionally frontend frameworks like React/Next.js • Experience designing distributed systems, APIs, data pipelines, or developer productivity infrastructure at scale • Bonus if you’ve been a founding engineer or startup early hire, with history building production products from scratch • Bonus if you’re NYC based — we have a loft office in Soho and provide lunch and snacks.
🏖️ Benefits
• 401k match • Extensive benefits
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