Senior React Native Engineer, Vivid Seats
$135-165k
+ Annual bonus incentives
Tuesday-Thursday in office
3 days a week in office
Ticket exchange and resale platform
Be an early applicant
Ticket exchange and resale platform
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$135-165k
+ Annual bonus incentives
Tuesday-Thursday in office
3 days a week in office
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
- 7+ years professional experience building applications in React Native or React
- Native iOS and/or Android development experience preferred
- You've developed and shipped user-facing features using component-based UI frameworks
- Experience designing, building, and testing modern web or cross-platform mobile solutions as part of an agile or cross-functional team
- Experience with client-side application state libraries (Redux, RTK)
- Strong knowledge of front-end languages (JavaScript, TypeScript)
- Exposure to server-side web technologies (Node, Express, Java, Spring) (preferred, not required)
- Experience with JavaScript/Typescript testing frameworks (Mocha, Jest, Enzyme, etc.)
- A proactive mindset toward embracing, experimenting, and integrating AI tools to drive efficiency, elevate your work, and contribute to a culture of innovation
- Many of our roles have flexible requirements and we encourage you to apply regardless of whether you meet every qualification
What the job involves
- As a Senior React Native Engineer, you'll be at the center of how millions of fans experience live events — from the moment they search for a ticket to the second they walk through the gate. You'll shape the architecture of Vivid Seats' flagship mobile app and the APIs powering it, working on the full cross-platform stack with real influence over product direction
- You'll partner directly with product, design, and engineering leaders to ship experiences that matter to real people on game day
- Own the mobile platform - set the technical direction for the front-end systems at the heart of our ticket marketplace
- Build what's next - architecting experiments and innovative features that give Vivid Seats a competitive edge, from AI-powered discovery to seamless checkout flows
- Move the needle - tackle hard e-commerce scaling challenges and ship creative solutions that drive measurable value across the org
- Raise the bar - champion best practices, mentor engineers through pairing and code reviews, and push the craft forward for your whole team
- Work cross functionally - collaborate with product, design, and business stakeholders to deliver real impact, iteratively and with intention
- Bring new perspective - your unique insights will help shape how we grow
- 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
- 90 days in
- Contribute to our approaches, methods, or technologies to support overall business goals and drive team efficiencies
- Cultivate and maintain internal and external relationships to achieve progress and advance objectives
- Contribute to team planning, estimations, and design sessions
- 180 days in
- Apply methods to execute individual tasks that positively impacts the team
- Play an active role in continued learnings to advance skill sets necessary for team goals
- Have self-sufficiency in all codebases touched by the team
- Actively contribute to larger team and engineering group objectives
- 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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