Senior Mobile Engineer, SeatGeek
Android
$144-209k
+ Equity + Discretionary annual bonus
Ticketing platform for live events
Be an early applicant
Ticketing platform for live events
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$144-209k
+ Equity + Discretionary annual bonus
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
- 5+ years of experience building Android apps
- Comfort programming complex applications in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose
- An interest in exploring more than just Android technologies, such as Python for API development and Swift for iOS Development. Preference for those who have delivered production code in both Swift and Kotlin
- An enjoyment for handling plenty of responsibility and seeing large projects to completion
- Experience developing beautiful, useful apps that are live in the Google Play Store
- Satisfaction in details—we've noticed the best Android engineers are as obsessed with pixels as they are with view models
- A care for building something that's used and loved by many
- Comfort driving architecture decisions and a strong sense of best practices
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior Mobile Engineer, Android to join SeatGeek’s Fandom team
- People love SeatGeek: our Android app is the #1 top free app in the Events category on Google Play
- We're constantly improving our user experience, in-app ticketing, and event discovery, but there are many other ambitious projects on our roadmap. SeatGeek makes finding a great ticket easy, but the live event experience does not end there. That's where you come in
- Check out the app in the Google Play Store. If you like what you see, and want to contribute, we'd love to hear from you!
- Help define what mobile means for an entire industry
- Continuously improve the application architecture
- Own the development of new features, from conception, through design and development, to release
- Partner with, teach, and learn from other Android engineers and other teams
- Collaborate with our design team to set new standards for app beauty and usability on Android
- You do not need experience with all of these, but we thought you might be curious. What we care about is your experience, skills, and approach to problem solving. Tools can be learned
- Languages: Kotlin
- Libraries / Frameworks: Jetpack Compose, Anvil, Retrofit 2 + OkHttp, Kotlinx Serialization
- Infrastructure / Tools: Android Studio, Claude
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
$77m
SERIES D
Total funding: $418.1m
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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