Senior React Native Engineer, Vivid Seats
CA$135-165k
Offers bonus incentives and equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office
Ticket exchange and resale platform
Open for applications
Ticket exchange and resale platform
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
CA$135-165k
Offers bonus incentives and equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Vivid Seats' mission is to empower every fan to get to the live events that shape their most vivid moments and memories.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years professional experience building applications in React or React Native
- Native iOS and/or Android development experience (preferred, not required)
- You've developed and shipped user-facing features using component-based UI frameworks
- Experience in 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
What the job involves
- As a Senior React Native Engineer, you will build and support systems responsible for our flagship mobile application. You will work on the latest cross-platform technology and make decisions which will directly impact product direction. Following React, front-end, and mobile development best practices, you’ll be responsible for developing frameworks that scale to the needs of other internal development teams at Vivid Seats
- Help set the direction of the front-end systems powering our ticket marketplace
- Architect experiments and innovative solutions that give Vivid Seats a competitive advantage, encourage team members, and champion technology improvements for your team
- Work cross-functionally with other development teams and business stakeholders to deliver impact iteratively
- Tackle difficult challenges while scaling an e-commerce marketplace by developing creative algorithms and features that maximize value and efficiency across the organization
- Collaborate to develop and maintain best practices across the software development lifecycle
- Mentor other engineers through pairing, code reviews, and tech talks
- Help us grow by sharing your unique insights and perspectives
- 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 applications 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
- Health, dental and vision packages: BCBS PPO, HSA and HMO plans, mental heath and telehealth programs.
- Retirement and savings programs, continuing education opportunities, and rewarding performance incentives.
- PTO, mental health days, and maternity/paternity policies.
- Company-wide town-halls, hackathons, product demos, in-office happy hours, holiday and summer events, company-sponsored sports leagues and competitions.
- Gym membership fees, wellness weeks, access to on-site treadmill desks, bike storage, fitness classes, and inspiring office spaces.
- Hybrid working arrangements at accessible office locations. Company-provided laptops, monitors, & software in-office. 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
Eric Vassilatos
(Co-founder)Also Principal at Magnolia Capital and Managing Partner at SkyBox capital.
Stan Chia
(CEO)Board Director at 1871, and Board Member at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Former COO of GrubHub.
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