Lead Web Engineer, Vivid Seats
+ Bonus + Equity
Ticket exchange and resale platform
Job no longer available
Ticket exchange and resale platform
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
+ Bonus + Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower every fan to get to the live events that shape their most vivid moments and memories.
Role
Who you are
- Positive energy, a desire to contribute to the growth and development of others, and a love for collaboration
- A drive to identify and solve problems
- The ability to deeply understand stakeholders and users and build solutions that meet their needs
- A pragmatic view of technology and understanding of what tools are right for the job, not just fun to use
- Extensive experience as a software engineer, ideally with at least some leadership experience mixed in
- A solid grasp of OO concepts, service-oriented architecture, and how to build highly available and fault-tolerant systems
- A cool playlist of bands or favorite performers you’re excited to see live in the future so we can get to know you and help get you tickets
- A proven career building applications and services in React
- Experience in designing, building, and testing of modern web solutions as part of an agile or cross functional team
- Strong knowledge of front-end web languages (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript)
- Exposure to server-side web technologies (Node, Java)
- Experience with JavaScript testing frameworks (Jest, RTL, etc.)
- Experience with Next.js is a plus
- Strong written and interpersonal communication skills to document and share team best practices across the department
What the job involves
- As a Lead Web Engineer you’ll make highly visible enhancements to our platform by maintaining and building new features, as well as integrating several of our internal systems into one cohesive platform
- Our Engineering department is made up of cross functional Agile development teams that work on the latest front end technology stack and make decisions which will directly impact the final product
- You’ll tackle some of the most difficult challenges scaling an ecommerce marketplace by developing creative and intuitive features that maximize value and efficiency across the organization
- Contribute to the design and development of our evolving in-house marketing platform
- Directly impacts the efficiency of the marketing team while creating a blueprint for future projects in the company
- Mentor engineers on your immediate team and across the engineering department, ensuring that they are unblocked and productive while also being challenged and supported to grow
- Partner with Engineering, Product, and UX leadership to identify, solution and implement improvements to delivery, quality, stability, and scalability initiatives
- Deliver high-quality code and supportive documentation that sets an example for the rest of the team
- Provide thoughtful code reviews to your peers that not only increases quality but teaches engineers best practices they can apply in the future
- 30 days in
- Complete new hire orientation, gaining the resources you need to be successful
- Learn how ticket marketplaces operate and how you’ll contribute to providing great experiences for our customers
- Acclimate to team and company norms, business objectives, and Vivid Seats values
- Develop basic understanding of applications, tech stack, and development process
- Become familiar with software platforms and delivery methodologies on your team
- Develop basic understanding of applications, tech stack, and development process
- 90 days in
- Enhance our approaches, methods, or technologies to mitigate risks and improve efficiencies
- Thoroughly understand the context of current architecture and any technical pain points to begin formulating architectural solutions
- Build, maintain, and leverage internal and external relationships to achieve progress and advance objectives
- Deliver clean code and thoughtful, insightful code reviews that helps level up our product and your team
- Mentor engineers on your direct team
- 180 days in
- Design and implement process improvements that positively impact the team and broader engineering department
- Mentor others within the department, playing an active role in elevating the skill sets of those you work with
- Architect and take ownership of new components of our platform, working with the leadership team and product to come up with technical solutions to our key business needs
- Apply methods to execute individual tasks that positively impacts the team
- Produce and deliver clean, correct code that drives team and company tech goals forward
Our take
Founded in 2001, Vivid Seats is one of the leading online ticket marketplaces. The event tickets market is one of the biggest out there, expected to reach almost $85 billion by 2027, and the company has secured its place within it with partnerships with big players like ESPN, RollingStone, and the NBA.
The company's strategy has so far been based on massive public exposure through heavy spending on digital advertising, which has brought it great success to date. Its connects millions of buyers with thousands of ticket sellers each year, covering hundreds of thousands of different events.
Vivid Seats boasts high revenues and sustained growth, and went public in 2021. Following its listing on the NASDAQ, the company has been focusing on expanding operations and broadening its tech capabilities. A recent development is the company's Vivid Picks app, which combines live event and gaming experiences to target changing trends in the events ticket space.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
42% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2014
$5.2m
SERIES A
Mar 2012
$3.9m
ANGEL
Total funding: $9.7m
Company benefits
- The Basics: We’ve got you covered with a variety of health, dental and vision packages to meet your needs: BCBS PPO, HSA and HMO plans, mental health and telehealth programs.
- Your Future: We care about what’s ahead for you. From competitive retirement and savings programs, to continuing education opportunities, and rewarding performance incentives, our goal is to grow your future in meaningful and sustainable ways.
- Recharge: We know employees who refresh, restore, and take time for life’s significant moments enjoy their work and are more productive. PTO, mental health days, and maternity/paternity policies give you the flexibility to make the most of your planned time off.
- Winning Together: We celebrate wins and stay connected as a team. Our teams are recognized in company-wide town-halls, hackathons, and product demos and enjoy in-office happy hours, holiday and summer events, and company sponsored sports leagues and competitions.
- Health = Happy: We are committed to a healthy lifestyle. We cover gym membership fees, host wellness weeks, provide plenty of nutritious snacks, cater smart choice lunches, provide access to on-site treadmill desks, bike storage, fitness classes, and inspiring office spaces where mindfulness can thrive.
- Convenient: We make work a little easier, providing hybrid working arrangements at accessible office locations. When you are in the office, you’ll have the tools (company provided laptops, monitors, software), room for ideas (open floorplan with plenty of meeting rooms, quiet areas, and whiteboards), and coffee. We’re talking good coffee.
Company HQ
West Loop Gate, Chicago, IL
Leadership
Stan Chia
(CEO)Board Director at 1871, and Board Member at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Former COO of GrubHub.
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