Software Engineer, Viagogo

Finance Tech

Salary not provided

SQL

Mid and Senior level

New York

Online event ticket marketplace for secondary buyers and sellers

Job no longer available

Online event ticket marketplace for secondary buyers and sellers

201-500 employees

B2CMarketplaceMusicEntertainmentSportseCommerce

Job no longer available

Salary not provided

SQL

Mid and Senior level

New York

201-500 employees

B2CMarketplaceMusicEntertainmentSportseCommerce

Company mission

Their mission is to provide an online marketplace that allows consumers to buy and sell tickets to sports, music, theatre and comedy events.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Has 3+ years of relevant practical experience
Has a passion for delivering products from idea, through prioritization and planning, to delivery and continuous iteration
Exposure to or experience within a finance / payments related domain of engineering
Has the ability to explain the impact of their work on business metrics
Computer Science or other technical degree

What the job involves

Building out an automated system to centralize business logic related to disbursements
Increasing accuracy of seller obligation tracking
Automating the generation of all marketplace-related financial journals (revenue, costs, tax, seller obligation etc.) following accounting principles, to be uploaded to the accounting system by the Finance Team
Automating the process of paying our sellers on time, following the correct schedule, using correct payment method, currency etc
Improving the security & quality of the overall system via smart permission management, refactoring architecture of existing processes, and building new tools
Improving payment management tooling & finance features available to internal users, so that we can provide better service to our users
Receive mentorship and a clear path for growing your technical and leadership skills
Solve challenges at every stage, from understanding the business challenge to implementing production systems
Move towards architecture and engineering management
Learn database/SQL best practices
Understand how we automate the processing of high-volume financial transactions

Our take

One of the main problems in the events industry is the difficulty faced by secondary buyers and sellers when it comes to finding each other. Viagogo aims to solve this problem by building an online marketplace for secondary buyers and sellers of online event tickets.

Viagogo differentiates itself through the simplicity of its interface, aiming to offer a seamless experience for buyers and sellers. This represented a unique selling point for the company, taking into account the difficulty of using the options offered by other competitors, such as StubHub.

Viagogo acquired its rival StubHub in 2020 for $3.8bn, attracting the scrutiny of the UK's competition watchdogs who concluded that the merger reduces the competition in the UK secondary ticketing market. Consequently, the main challenge faced by the company now is finding a way to mediate the situation, most probably through selling all of StubHub’s business outside North America, as required by CMA.

Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

10% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.2)

Trustpilot (3.7)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Feb 2009

$15m

Aug 2007

$30m

Total funding: $65m

Company benefits

Health package
Relocation Package
Continuous training & support
Career progression
Employee Engagement initiatives
Work Abroad Scheme in North America, APAC, Africa, Europe
Casual dress code
Free parking
Competitive starting salary

Company HQ

Conseil-Genéral, Genève, GE

Leadership

Eric Baker

(CEO)

Previously Management Consultant at McKinsey & Company for 2 years and founder at StubHub.

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