Lead Software Developer, Live Nation
12-Month Fixed-Term Contract
Entertainment events promoter and producer
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Entertainment events promoter and producer
1001+ employees
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1001+ employees
Company mission
Live Nation's mission is to help live music fans more easily and quickly find concert tickets and information about their favourite artists and venues.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience working with productive software engineering teams and writing high-quality software
- Experience with full-stack programming languages and tools will enable you to hit the ground running!
- Effective communicator, written and oral, as this role will be working closely with people from all over the organization
- An independent, fast-learning, self-starter who takes ownership over solving hard problems
- Empathy and interest in supporting and growing your teammates and yourself via feedback, pairing, and code reviews
- Experience with any of the following technologies is a bonus: TypeScript, NextJS, Node, Go, Kafka, Grafana, GraphQL. Mongo, Ruby on Rails, Postgres
- Passionate – A love for your craft that pushes you to strive for elegance and quality in your work
- Winning Teamwork – Collaborating with others in a respectful manner and openly sharing information amongst the team to assist in achieving Ticketmaster goals and objectives. Taking the time to empathize and understand where others are coming from, along with showing recognition and appreciation for the contribution of others
- Inquisitive – A forever student, always seeking to learn and grow with and from your peers
- Problem Solving and Innovation – Gathering appropriate perspectives and insights and seeking win-win solutions by remaining open to alternative approaches and being proactive in generating new ideas. Ability to maintain a balanced perspective and see all sides of an issue and manage problems in a timely and effective manner. A free and independent thinker, open to new ideas and concepts
- Organizational Skills – Manages competing priorities of several teams/departments/locations. Tasks and project management orientation (with the ability to hold others accountable)
What the job involves
- Contract Terms: ~12-Month Fixed-Term Contract, Full-Time, 37.5 hours per week
- As a Lead Software Developer at Universe, you will apply your passion for technology and live entertainment to build a world-class, highly scalable ticketing platform
- In this deeply technical position, you’ll work closely with your team to build reliable and scalable solutions to tough technical challenges
- You’ll deliver great quality code and innovative solutions while growing your skills as both a technical contributor and leader through code reviews, pairing sessions, mentorship opportunities, and both learning skills from and teaching skills to the team
- Our clients and their fans, rely on Universe to provide a stable, and reliable platform that can scale quickly to handle unpredictable demand and large traffic and data volumes
- You’ll get your hands dirty writing code, architecting solutions, and contributing directly to these systems
- Through continuous deployment you’ll ship frequently and have a measurable impact on our product that you can feel proud of
- Most new hires ship code within their first two weeks, many their first few days!
- Writing new pages and components with NextJS and React, powered by a mix of SSR, REST, and GraphQL
- Designing and architecting detailed protobufs to empower efficient development of new services and tools through contract-driven development
- Driving quality and performance across the organization, including leading best practice adoption, through your advocacy for observability, load testing, and metric collection
- Helping to pragmatically maintain our legacy and core systems while keeping an eye towards the future
- Maintaining a positive, productive, and healthy environment on your team
- Working closely with Product Managers and Designers to find the best solutions
- Pair-programming with talented developers
- Providing mentorship and career guidance to other developers
- Meeting regularly with the other Leads to contribute to our collaborative tech vision and enrich discussions with your unique perspective and experience
- Participate in self-directed Relentless Improvement days where you get to work by yourself or with others to improve something, be it your own skills/training, fixing a pesky bug, or coming up with a new interesting feature
Our take
Live Nation is the world's leading live entertainment company, sitting at the top of the market in live events and ticketing. Formed in 2009, it is a major international company, with key business segments made up of concerts, ticketing, and sponsorship and advertising.
Despite its dominant position in the market, the company saw an 84% drop in revenue during 2020 and the closure of live events. Since then, however, demand has been stronger than ever for their ticket sales. This is a reflection that live events remain a clear priority for consumers and has been further reflected in Live Nation's acquisitions of companies - like Goodlive - that complement and bolster Live Nation's portfolio.
In addition to live events, a key area to watch for Live Nation will be the rise of online concert streaming, like that undertaken by competitors such as Driift. Major festivals such as Glastonbury have trialled online concerts with mixed reviews. If it proves successful, this could be a major new section of the entertainment market and a big potential part of Live Nation's future ventures.
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Company benefits
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
Company values
- Live for artists - Artists are the heart of what we do and we have deep reverence and respect for their creativity. We believe live music is vital to art and culture which is why in 2019, we paid artists more than $6 billion, making Live Nation by far the largest financial supporter of musicians. Beyond global touring deals and festival performances, our Artist Nation group offers services such as management, business marketing and consulting to artists across all genres
- Live for decentralisation - We don’t believe in bureaucracy and we don’t mandate synergy. We keep our corporate teams small, because we trust that our decentralized divisions know how to make the best decisions for their businesses in real time
- Live for ideas - Part of working in a creative industry is imagining what could be and exploring the possibilities. We encourage everyone at Live Nation to dream big and email our CEO with ideas to move our business forward
- Live for entrepreneurship - Employees who thrive here are self-starters who are experts at what they do. While we give a tremendous amount of independence to our employees, we are also precise and exacting about performance. There is no hiding behind process here. You are evaluated on your results and concrete contributions to our business
- Live for focus - We have a long “To Do” list but an even longer “Not To Do” list. As the demand for live events continues to grow across the globe, we have to stay focused on our core mission of connecting artists with their fans for those magical hours of live music
- Live for talent - We believe talent comes from any place or background. This is not a place for elitists. We hire people for who they are – hard workers who deliver results and are passionate about what they do
Company HQ
Barbican, London, UK
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Leadership
Michael Rapino
(President and CEO, not founder)They worked for 10 years in various marketing and entertainment capacities at Labatt’s Breweries of Canada. They held several roles at Clear Channel Communications, including President and CEO of Global Music. They were named CEO and President of Live Nation in 2005.
People progressing
Joined as a Financial Accounting Manager in 2017, promoted to Director and then VP of Financial Accounting.
Joined as Executive VP Marketing in 2012, promoted to Senior VP & Head of Marketing after 2 years.
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