Lead Backend Engineer, Live Nation

• If you are the sort of person that enjoys a fast-paced work environment, can quickly pick-up cutting-edge technologies and product concepts, and has the desire to experiment with, evaluate and evangelise new technological paths forward, this is the role for you
• Proven years of progressive engineering experience, building and scaling cloud-based SaaS products with a deep desire to stay hands-on
• BS Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Mathematics or equivalent experience
• Exceptional programming skills in at least one modern object-oriented language
• Experience with complex architectural patterns, building APIs, microservices, event streams, and high throughput systems
• Experience breaking down high level business requirements into engineering deliverables and managing completion of deliverable to a timeline
• Proven years of experience in working with cloud-based platforms (preferably AWS)
• Appreciate and embrace transparency and see value in providing and receiving feedback
• Strong knowledge of multiple database products (e.g DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, MySQL, Mongo)
• Strong knowledge writing Springboot classic and reactive microservices with Java

Desirable

• Ticketmaster is looking for an experienced, motivated, and self-driven candidate to join the CORE engineering team
• As a lead engineer, you will work to shape the future tech strategy and encourage new and transformative thinking across a large organisation
• You will have the opportunity to dive deep into hands-on solutions for large scale e-commerce problems, shaping the product transformation to a highly scalable distributed platform
• Now is an exciting time to join the team and make a real difference as well as showcase your engineering skills as we work to modernise and globalise our tech ecosystem
• Be a hands-on engineer, working with a distributed team of talented engineers to help build our next generation systems
• Be an active participant in building solution designs, including evaluating and evangelising technical solutions with a team and across the department
• Lead and facilitate the high-level product feature intake and solution design according to business priorities
• Inform and enforce engineering best practices to ensure cost effective development and identifying opportunities for reuse and consolidation
• Participate in improving software development life cycle, technical operations, and technology innovation
• Own the development of new systems and enhancements to existing systems, including breaking down complex problems into essential components and helping to design efficient solutions
• Produce plans and recommendations with multiple contingencies to avoid stalling progress
• Work with product, business teams, and architects to gather and understand requirements, discuss approaches, design solutions based on the requirements and create design documents for implementation keeping in mind costs, capacity, shelf-life, and choosing the right tools and technologies
• Evaluate new tools and technologies for feasibility, cost, and subsequent use in the company and teams
• Manage relationships between teams to solve larger problems and deliver greater business value
• Promote a culture of engineering excellence, quality over speed, and doing the right thing
• Successfully communicate all concepts, designs, plans, and guidelines to the appropriate teams, leadership, and stakeholders