Senior Software Developer, Live Nation
Entertainment events promoter and producer
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Entertainment events promoter and producer
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
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
- 5+ years of experience working with productive software engineering teams and writing high-quality software
- Experience with Ruby on Rails and React is a must and will enable you to hit the ground running!
- Effective communicator, written and oral, as this role will be working closely with people from all over the organization
- An independent, fast-learning, self-starter who takes ownership over solving hard problems
- Empathy and interest in supporting and growing your teammates and yourself via feedback, pairing, and code reviews
- Experience with any of the following technologies is a bonus: Elixir, GraphQL. Mongo, Postgres, Elastic, Redis, Java, and Kafka (or similar)
- Business Acumen – You understand and can apply general business concepts, using external networks to understand market situations and industry
- Passionate – A love for your craft that pushes you to strive for elegance and quality in your work
- Winning Teamwork – Collaborating with others in a respectful manner and openly sharing information amongst the team to assist in achieving Ticketmaster goals and objectives
- Taking the time to empathize and understand where others are coming from, along with showing recognition and appreciation for the contribution of others
- Inquisitive – A forever student, always seeking to learn and grow with and from your peers
- Problem Solving and Innovation – Gathering appropriate perspectives and insights and seeking win-win solutions by remaining open to alternative approaches and being proactive in generating new ideas
- Ability to maintain a balanced perspective and see all sides of an issue and manage problems in a timely and effective manner
- A free and independent thinker, open to new ideas and concepts
- Organizational Skills – Manages competing priorities of several teams/departments/locations
- Tasks and project management orientation (with the ability to hold others accountable)
What the job involves
- Line Manager: Lead Software Developer
- Contract Terms: 12-Month Fixed-Tern Contract, 37.5 hour per week (with potential opportunity for this to turn into a permanent position)
- As a Senior Software Developer at Universe, you will apply your passion for technology and live experiences as we work together to build a world-class Event Ticketing platform
- In this deeply technical position, you’ll work closely with the team to build reliable and scalable solutions to tough technical challenges
- You’ll deliver great quality code and innovative solutions while growing your skills as both a technical contributor and leader through code reviews, pairing sessions, mentorship opportunities, and both learning and teaching skills to the team
- We’re a relatively small team which means you will play a significant and impactful role in contributing to our most important tech systems., informing our culture, and establishing and maintain the high technical bar we’ve established across our product
- You’ll get your hands dirty writing code, architecting solutions, and contributing directly to these systems
- Through continuous deployment, you’ll ship frequently and have measurable impact on our product that you can feel proud of
- You’ll collaborate with talented developers, designers, and product manager, using your deep technical insight to ensure we’re not only building the best software but also building the right software in the best way possible
- Universe primarily uses Ruby on Rails to serve our application data via a combination of REST and GraphQL APIs to a variety of React front-end clients
- We’re constantly adopting and testing new tools and technologies within our service-based architecture, so you’ll see some Elixir, Java, and Rust sprinkled in there too
- Our primary datastores are MongoDB, Postgres, and Elastic, though we also use BigQuery
- We deploy to GCP and manage our systems with Kubernetes and maintain a continuous deployment pipeline that allows us to ship quickly
- Writing new React components with our GraphQL API, building new features, and maintaining existing ones
- Architecting new back-end data models and services in Ruby on Rails and Elixir Phoenix
- Testing your code with automation
- Working closely with Product Managers and Designers to find the best solutions
- Pair-programming with talented developers
- Providing mentorship and career guidance to other developers
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.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
Company HQ
Barbican, London, UK
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.
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