Lead Backend Engineer, Live Nation
Entertainment events promoter and producer
Open for applications
Entertainment events promoter and producer
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
Live Nation's mission is to help live music fans more easily and quickly find concert tickets and information about their favourite artists and venues.
Role
Who you are
- Solid experience developing production-quality software at a high scale
- Ability to learn new technologies and paradigms rapidly
- Strong Java programming skills
- Strong backend development, Multithreading, Thread-Pools with strong OOP skills
- Strong knowledge of web applications test strategies (UT, IT, UAT, Capacity tests…)
- Strong knowledge of REST and GraphQL
- Strong knowledge of multiple database products (e.g DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, MySQL, Mongo)
- Strong knowledge writing Springboot classic and reactive microservices with Java
- Strong knowledge of Distributed / Service-Oriented / Microservice and cloud-based architectures
- Strong knowledge building cloudnative applications on AWS, Docker, Kubernetes
- Proven track record building architectures for web applications (CDN, API Gateway, Backend For Front End, Authentication, Security)
- Proven track record working in an Agile + DevOps development environment
- Strong knowledge of DevOps / Continuous Delivery / Continuous Deployment best practices and guidelines
- Proven track record of building complete continuous delivery / continuous deployment pipelines
- Experience coaching engineers and documenting the best practices
- Has advanced troubleshooting techniques and resolves problems as they occur
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills, frequently identifies enhancements
- Demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions
- Actively participates in overall solution and architectural design of the system
- Pro-actively reviews various sources of performance, security and quality data to ensure accuracy and identify issues
- Is open minded and actively seeks opportunities to try out new ideas and situations
- Imports good ideas from similar situations experienced within their team or other teams across Technology
- Ensures all work is performed to high standards
- Experience working asynchronously with colleagues in different timezones
What the job involves
- In the role of Lead Engineer, you will join the TM1 Events team, focusing on delivering an application that empowers our clients to create and manage their events for the Ticketmaster website and various integrations
- Your mission will be to leverage your technical leadership to integrate various technologies and deliver a robust set of APIs with the goal of transforming TM1 Events into the true master of event data at Ticketmaster
- You will have to rely on your wide range of experience to solve complex problems, and you will have to mentor engineers in your team
- You will work with a large variety of technologies and will be part of a fully DevOps & Agile team responsible for the full end-to-end delivery of web applications / microservices, including the infrastructure and production operation
- Design and implement robust, reliable, highly available, and scalable APIs with solid monitoring and alerting capabilities
- Conceive, plan and implement innovative approaches to solve complex and multi-dimensional problems of diverse scope
- Create formal networks with key decision makers and serves as a spokesperson for the team
- Lead the technical vision and implement the necessary technical frameworks and libraries that simplify the day-to-day features implementation. This also involves being accountable for the technical solutions
- Continuously optimize services on all layers (infrastructure, platform, software) for high availability, high reliability, and high performance
- Interact with Product / UX designers and propose the right solutions to implement
- Collaborate with Product and Engineering leadership to build new features within strategic product roadmap
- Define technical specifications and technical acceptance criteria for the development team to meet the business requirements
- Monitor all critical services, troubleshoot, and address problems as they arise (including any needed changes in code, topology, resources, or configuration)
- Ensure high quality in all levels (code quality, bug free deployments, automated tests)
- Define meticulously the platform SLAs through load testing, chaos testing, and disaster recovery process
- Solve technical problems of the highest scope, complexity and ambiguity. This includes ensuring high quality through automated tests. This also involves providing a point of escalation for teams facing complex technical challenges
- Be part of pager duty rotation
- Proactively identify opportunities to reuse or generalize existing product features. Avoids duplication of effort by encouraging collaboration. This involves ensuring the right balance between standardization, innovation, quality, and technical debt reduction, to be able to deliver the business value fast
- Teach, mentor, grow and provide advice to other software developers and domain experts across teams
- Look for innovation opportunities between several teams with willingness to experiment and to boldly confront problems of large complexity and scope
Our take
Live Nation is the world's leading live entertainment company, sitting at the top of the market in live events and ticketing. Formed in 2009, it is a major international company, with key business segments made up of concerts, ticketing, and sponsorship and advertising.
Despite its dominant position in the market, the company saw an 84% drop in revenue during 2020 and the closure of live events. Since then, however, demand has been stronger than ever for their ticket sales. This is a reflection that live events remain a clear priority for consumers and has been further reflected in Live Nation's acquisitions of companies - like Goodlive - that complement and bolster Live Nation's portfolio.
In addition to live events, a key area to watch for Live Nation will be the rise of online concert streaming, like that undertaken by competitors such as Driift. Major festivals such as Glastonbury have trialled online concerts with mixed reviews. If it proves successful, this could be a major new section of the entertainment market and a big potential part of Live Nation's future ventures.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company benefits
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
Company values
- Live for artists - Artists are the heart of what we do and we have deep reverence and respect for their creativity. We believe live music is vital to art and culture which is why in 2019, we paid artists more than $6 billion, making Live Nation by far the largest financial supporter of musicians. Beyond global touring deals and festival performances, our Artist Nation group offers services such as management, business marketing and consulting to artists across all genres
- Live for decentralisation - We don’t believe in bureaucracy and we don’t mandate synergy. We keep our corporate teams small, because we trust that our decentralized divisions know how to make the best decisions for their businesses in real time
- Live for ideas - Part of working in a creative industry is imagining what could be and exploring the possibilities. We encourage everyone at Live Nation to dream big and email our CEO with ideas to move our business forward
- Live for entrepreneurship - Employees who thrive here are self-starters who are experts at what they do. While we give a tremendous amount of independence to our employees, we are also precise and exacting about performance. There is no hiding behind process here. You are evaluated on your results and concrete contributions to our business
- Live for focus - We have a long “To Do” list but an even longer “Not To Do” list. As the demand for live events continues to grow across the globe, we have to stay focused on our core mission of connecting artists with their fans for those magical hours of live music
- Live for talent - We believe talent comes from any place or background. This is not a place for elitists. We hire people for who they are – hard workers who deliver results and are passionate about what they do
Company HQ
Barbican, London, UK
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Leadership
Michael Rapino
(President and CEO, not founder)They worked for 10 years in various marketing and entertainment capacities at Labatt’s Breweries of Canada. They held several roles at Clear Channel Communications, including President and CEO of Global Music. They were named CEO and President of Live Nation in 2005.
People progressing
Joined as a Financial Accounting Manager in 2017, promoted to Director and then VP of Financial Accounting.
Joined as Executive VP Marketing in 2012, promoted to Senior VP & Head of Marketing after 2 years.
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