Engineering Manager, SeatGeek
Android
$170-230k
+Equity stake
Ticketing platform for live events
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Ticketing platform for live events
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$170-230k
+Equity stake
501-1000 employees
Company mission
SeatGeek’s mission is to help the world to experience more live.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years as an engineer in a role that was mostly about writing mobile code (either Android or iOS)
- 3+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager of high caliber, motivated native mobile teams
- Irreproachable technical skills, and your team should look up to you as a mentor
- Knowledge of industry technology trends so you can help your team make good tooling and framework decisions
- Excellent strategic mind able to set technical direction
- An understanding of how to lead by setting context and facilitating collaboration between product, design, engineering and business leaders
- Experience owning an entire high-quality consumer-facing Android application, including release, vendor, and platform management
What the job involves
- We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our Android team. As the Engineering Manager, you’ll help ensure that SeatGeek has the best live events apps in the world
- You’ll lead the Android team that builds industry-leading experiences for fans and helps uplevel mobile engineering across SeatGeek. From new functionality, to application architecture, to release process, to observability, you’ll have a large area of ownership across both native mobile platforms
- You’ll be a critical leader in taking SeatGeek’s Android apps to an even higher level
- Manage a team of Android engineers
- Partner with your product counterpart and engineering peers in planning cycles and help keep our priorities in order
- Provide regular job performance feedback, hold one-on-ones, and provide career development support to your direct reports
- Guide the team to improve operational and engineering best practices to keep our development machine humming
- Set technical priorities, communicate business context to the team, build excitement about how innovative technology can enhance our core business
- Play an active role in our recruiting process, helping us to grow our engineering team in any way you can
- Perform code reviews and provide technical and design feedback to the team
- Communicate technical and product decisions to the right people, resolve blocking issues, and collaborate with other leaders across the organization
Our take
For many fans, buying tickets online can be a time-consuming and frustrating process. SeatGeek is setting out to ease this problem by powering an open entertainment industry that provides fans with greater access to experiences, while enabling teams, venues, and shows to have seamless access to their audiences.
SeatGeek launched with a laser-sharp focus on creating a customer-oriented ticketing marketplace for sports and live events. Its commitment to optimizing fan experience has helped distinguish the company from rivals, such as Ticketmaster and Live Nation, with its expanding suite of simple features that have made it the highest-rated and most trusted ticketer.
SeatGeek has secured integration partnerships with Facebook, Spotify and Snapchat, and has an impressive client list that includes the Dallas Cowboys, Manchester City FC, and the Brooklyn Nets. It continues to onboard enterprise clients, expand its international presence and release new products such as "Next Fan Up", positioning it well for future success.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Aug 2022
$238m
SERIES E
Apr 2017
$69.6m
SERIES D
Total funding: $410.7m
Company benefits
- Health Insurance Coverage
- Ample Paid Time Off
- 401k Matching Program
- Parental Leave - 16 weeks of leave in a 12-month period
- Health and wellness subscriptions to services like One Medical, Ginger.io and Headspace
- Regular virtual team hangs & happy hours + Company-Wide Hackathons 3-4 times per Year
- SeatGeek Monthly Ticket-Purchase Stipend
- Flexible work environment - Work as many days a week in the office as you'd like, or 100% remotely
- WFH Office Setup Stipend
Company values
- Start With Fans - When fans win, everyone wins
- Be Humbold - We're bold, but humble
- Pull Back The Curtains - We put outsized focus on building the most talented team possible
- Don't Do Bullsh*t Work - If unchecked, every job results in too many hours spent on bullsh*t work. We design how we work to spend the most time doing rather than preparing to do
- Stack The Lineup - Our team is our biggest unfair advantage, and the best teams bring together different backgrounds and experiences
- Play Long Ball - We take big bets on the future
Company HQ
Flatiron District, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
Jack Groetzinger
(Co-Founder & CEO)Worked as a consultant for Bain. Founded and sold another startup, Scribnia, before founding SeatGeek.
Russell D'Souza
(Co-Founder)Worked as an analyst for Monitor. Founded and sold another startup, Scribnia, before founding SeatGeek.
Eric Waller
(Co-Founder)Worked as a Web Developer at Tickerhound. Co-founded and was a Web Developer at Niqos.
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