Lead Software Engineer, Live Nation

• Demonstrable lead engineering and development experience
• Experience with Agile methodologies
• Strong backend development skills
• Proven ability to design and implement clean, scalable and well-structured APIs
• Java 17+ programming language experience or of other JVM languages
• Experience with modern frameworks such as Springboot
• Test-Driven Development experience
• Understanding of Continuous Integration practices
• Knowledge of current software architectural trends and practices
• Previous experience with Design Patterns and SOLID principles
• Experience working with AWS or other Cloud Provider
• Experience with CI/CD servers (Gitlab/Jenkins)
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes or other orchestration/scheduling framework
• Experience working in an SOA development environment
• Working knowledge of one or more database products (e.g. Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL)
• Strong communication skills that allow you to adapt your message to different audiences, present ideas persuasively, and facilitate productive meetings
• You are autonomous and proactive
• You focus on results and desired outcomes and how best to achieve them
• You can consider multiple approaches and recommends the best technical direction including logic and reasoning
• You can work with minimal supervision
• You can solve complex technical issues through debugging, research, and investigation
• You promote cooperation and commitment within a team to achieve goals and deliverables
• You maintain and foster relationships within, across, and external to organizational boundaries
• You are passionate about technology, software development and transformation
• You desire to continually improve your own skills, and ability to transfer that to the skills of others
• You can take ownership of deliverables and work with other roles and teams to achieve them
• You excel at cross-functional collaboration, resolving misalignments and bringing the right stakeholders together to drive efficiency
• You make strategic trade-offs in prioritization, balancing immediate needs with long-term impact, and help your team focus on high-value work that aligns with business priorities
• It is ok if you lack some of the skills listed above, the single most important skill is being able to learn quickly. We believe that a motivated, team-oriented professional will always succeed in mastering a new toolset when a need arises

Desirable

• You will be joining the diverse Global Ticketmaster Abuse and Fraud Prevention engineering team
• As a Lead Software Engineer at Ticketmaster, you will be responsible for engineering excellence in the next generation of protective services for Ticketmaster, the global leader in ticket management for large-scale sports and entertainment
• You will work closely with other engineers, product owners and managers, and representatives from the business, to design scalable, resilient systems and lead architectural improvements while implementing complex features and optimizing performance
• In the role of Lead Software Engineer, you’ll lead development and delivery within our Abuse and Fraud Prevention portfolio of products which help protect over 10 billion dollars of revenue annually. You will be accountable for delivering high-quality work, taking ownership of outcomes, and ensuring alignment with team goals
• You will lead, manage, and inspire engineers to deliver the best ticketing experience across the globe. You’ll help teams fulfil technical, operational, and business requirements by putting yourself in the trenches
• You will emphasise collaboration and mutual support – sharing project workflow with globally distributed teams, contributing code to global services and applications, and cultural exchange between development groups. It is an exciting time to join Ticketmaster as we are working towards aligning our technologies and products globally
• Because our business is online 24/7, you may on occasion be required to work out of hours or provide on-call duty on a rota basis
• Participate and lead development work across globally distributed software teams
• Ensure applicability of global applications to global markets
• Ability to organize, prioritise; multitask while coordinating team efforts, reporting to stakeholders and management on the progress of goals
• Connect with a series of stakeholders in order to gather as much information as possible regarding the problem at hand and implement short-mid term strategies to evolve products for future success.(UX / Design / Product / PMO…etc.)
• Objectively explore multiple approaches and recommend the best technical direction including logic and reasoning
• Meaningful participation in service layer architecture design
• Spike and prototype
• Write exemplary code
• Own the full development and deployment cycle for your software
• Encourage and grow developers in their craft
• Debug and triage production application issues, often not your own
• Automate testing, deployments, performance, and recovery