Lead Frontend Engineer, Live Nation
Entertainment events promoter and producer
Open for applications
Entertainment events promoter and producer
1001+ employees
Open for applications
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
- Previous experience leading a development team
- Strong experience with modern frontend technologies such as React, GraphQL, Design System, Monorepo, Microfrontend, Web components, Responsive, Mobile
- Strong experience in troubleshooting, debugging, fixing issues, and finding possibilities to automate routine tasks
- Experience in creating testing harness/infrastructure/test cases/automation geared towards ensuring the quality of the product using testing frameworks
- A wide range of understanding of technologies beyond front-end, even if you have not necessarily developed in them before
- Assets:
- Experience with DevOps tools and workflows such as Docker, Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalents
- Experience with backend technologies such as AWS, Kubernetes, Springboot, Gitlab
- Autonomous and proactive
- Outcome oriented, able to balance pragmatism with tech improvements
- Comfortable with working in cross-functional and multi-disciplinary team
- A highly productive developer
- Bring positive energy to a team… and
- Enjoy helping others understand what great looks like, and levelling up the skills of the people around you
What the job involves
- Within the TM1 Client Applications Division, the TM1 Reports team focuses on delivering a B2B application that handles the extensive reporting needs of a wide variety of international clients
- The reporting app is one of the most frequently accessed applications within Ticketmaster’s B2B space, and a fundamental need for most clients
- There are many key strategic projects – both product and tech – that sit within the TM1 Reports team
- Your role within the team would be to determine and advocate for the best technical path forward on the front end, put best practices in place, and help drive delivery across the team
- You will be actively participating in the overall design of the solutions and leading by example, acting in a very hands-on way
- You will work autonomously, using your experience and technical expertise to propose new solutions and ideas
- You will develop and maintain links with your peers working in connected teams around the world
- You’ll use your skills and take initiative, solving complex problems and overcoming obstacles to both maintain and improve the quality of services provided
- You will iteratively transform the application and seek ways to simplify and streamline development
- As a lead in the team, you would be expected to be able to comprehend, have an opinion on and be able to operate in other parts of the tech stack when needed
- However, the technical expertise required is in the front end
- You will represent the team as a technical expert and work closely with Product Manager partners on requirements and definition
- An important part of this role is the ability to anticipate the needs of the team
- This role is not a line-management role, but you will mentor junior colleagues to improve the culture in a spirit of continuous improvements
- Participate in development work across software teams
- Stay current in the technology landscape
- Connect with a series of stakeholders in order to implement strategies to evolve products for success (UX, Product, PMO)
- Objectively explore multiple approaches and recommend the best technical direction including logic and reasoning
- Meaningful participation in web and service layer architecture design
- Foster and drive continuous improvement
- Maintain and curate documentation and standards
- Consolidate, catalog, review and sanitize existing technical documents
- Ensure that solution designs created by development teams consider security risk, and have appropriate mitigations in place
- Keep abreast of potential security risks ensure they are captured so that these risks can be appropriately tracked and closed down
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.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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
Articles
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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