Engineering Manager, SeatGeek
Mobile Foundation
$160-250k
+ Equity
Ticketing platform for live events
Job no longer available
Ticketing platform for live events
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$160-250k
+ Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To power a new, open entertainment industry where fans have effortless access to experiences, and team, venues, and shows have seamless access to their audiences.
Role
Who you are
- Excellent strategic mind able to set technical direction across native mobile engineering at SeatGeek
- 6+ years as an engineer in a role that was mostly about writing mobile code (either Android or iOS)
- 2+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager of high caliber, motivated native mobile teams
- Irreproachable technical skills, and your team should look up to you as a mentor
- Knowledge of industry technology trends so you can help your team make good tooling and framework decisions by setting them up for success across both platforms
- An understanding of how to lead by setting context and facilitating collaboration between product, design, engineering and business leaders
- Experience owning an entire high-quality consumer-facing application (either iOS or Android), including release, vendor, and platform management
- You absolutely do not need experience with all of these, but we thought you might be curious. This list isn’t exhaustive (yes, we still have a little bit of Objective-C and Java like everyone else), but shows our current stack for new development
- IOS: Swift, SwiftUI / UIKit
- Android: Kotlin, Jetpack Compose
- Infrastructure / Tools: Datadog, Mixpanel, Optimizely, Firebase/Crashalytics, Fastlane
What the job involves
- We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our Mobile Foundation team
- As the Engineering Manager, you’ll help ensure that SeatGeek has the best live events apps in the world
- You’ll lead the Mobile Foundation team that builds industry-leading native mobile experiences for fans and helps uplevel mobile engineering across SeatGeek
- From new functionality, to application architecture, to release process, to observability, you’ll have a large area of ownership across both native mobile platforms
- You’ll be a critical leader in taking SeatGeek’s mobile apps to an even higher level
- Manage a team of Android and iOS engineers
- Provide regular job performance feedback, hold one-on-ones, and provide career development support to your direct reports
- Guide the team to improve operational and engineering best practices to keep our development machine humming
- Set technical priorities, communicate business context to the team, build excitement about how innovative technology can enhance our core business
- Play an active role in our recruiting process, helping us to grow our engineering team in any way you can
- Perform code reviews and provide technical and design feedback to the team
- Partner with your product counterpart and engineering peers in planning cycles, and help us keep our priorities in order
- Communicate technical and product decisions to the right people, resolve blocking issues, and collaborate with other leaders across the organization
Our take
For many fans, buying tickets online can be a time-consuming and frustrating process. SeatGeek is setting out to ease this problem by powering an open entertainment industry that provides fans with greater access to experiences, while enabling teams, venues, and shows to have seamless access to their audiences.
SeatGeek launched with a laser-sharp focus on creating a customer-oriented ticketing marketplace for sports and live events. Its commitment to optimizing fan experience has helped distinguish the company from rivals, such as Ticketmaster and Live Nation, with its expanding suite of simple features that have made it the highest-rated and most trusted ticketer.
SeatGeek has secured integration partnerships with Facebook, Spotify and Snapchat, and has an impressive client list that includes the Dallas Cowboys, Manchester City FC, and the Brooklyn Nets. It continues to onboard enterprise clients, expand its international presence and release new products such as "Next Fan Up", positioning it well for future success.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Aug 2022
$238m
SERIES E
Apr 2017
$75.3m
SERIES D
Total funding: $416.4m
Company benefits
- Benefits: We provide access to high-quality health insurance coverage, ample paid time off, and a matching 401k program.
- Parental leave: Congrats on welcoming a bundle of joy into your life! We offer 16 weeks of leave in a 12-month period.
- Subscriptions: Health and wellness are incredibly important so we cover employee subscriptions to services like One Medical, Ginger.io and Headspace.
- Team events: Regular virtual team hangs & happy hours are essential, especially while we’re all working remotely. We also put our typical day-to-day work aside for company-wide hackathons 3-4 times per year.
- Ticket perk: SeatGeek employees receive a monthly ticket-purchase stipend for live events!
- Flexible work environment: Flexible work environment, allowing you to work as many days a week in the office as you’d like or 100% remotely. A WFH stipend to support your home office setup.
Company HQ
Flatiron District, New York, NY
Leadership
Jack Groetzinger
(Co-Founder & CEO)Jack is also a Founding Partner at Founder Creative. Previously, he founded Scribnia and worked as an Associate Consultant at Bain & Company.
Russell D'Souza
(Co-Founder)Previously, Russell co-founded Scribnia and worked as an Analyst at Monitor Group.
Eric Waller
(Co-Founder & CTO)Eric previously co-founded Niqos where he worked as a Web Developer for 3 years. He also served as a Web Developer at Tickerhound and as a User Experience Engineer at Amie Street.
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