Senior Software Engineer, SeatGeek
Platform Runtime
$130-240k
+ Equity
Ticketing platform for live events
Job no longer available
Ticketing platform for live events
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$130-240k
+ Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
SeatGeek’s mission is to help the world to experience more live.
Role
Who you are
- Passion for craftsmanship and product. You have well-considered opinions about how reliable infrastructure should work, and hold yourself and your code to a high standard
- Experience working with cloud providers
- Experience with VMs, containers, and serverless compute platforms
- Experience with service discovery and routing between microservices
- Experience coding in an interpreted language (application development and/or Go experience is a plus)
- Experience with the full software development lifecycle
- Familiarity with Relational and Non-relational databases
- Experience with Configuration Management systems and Infrastructure as Code
- Experience with continuous integration, delivery, testing, and code deployment
- Experience using observability tools to make performance improvements and forecast growth
- Experience improving system architecture, diagnosing shortcomings and implementing evidence-based recommendations
- You can simplify complex topics to better suit a non-technical audience
- Commitment to your teammates. You enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different experiences and take pride in mentoring and learning from others
What the job involves
- As a Software Engineer, you'll build and improve high quality, opinionated and standardized libraries and SDKs that power the entirety of SeatGeek's technology ecosystem
- As a member of the Platform Runtime team, you will be involved in themes such as building standardized libraries and SDKs for a variety of frameworks, developing an opinionated feature flag and configuration management solution, and ensuring our applications run performantly and reliably
- The Platform Runtime team is the backbone that supports SeatGeek’s Enterprise and Consumer lines of business making software easier, safer, and more consistent as we continue to grow our primary and secondary ticketing platform and support clients such as the Dallas Cowboys, and Manchester City FC
- Develop and refine software and standard libraries that power applications across SeatGeek’s entire stack
- Build opinionated solutions to help manage and enhance the software application deployment process
- Build and maintain tools that our developers use to observe their applications, and drive initiatives to increase our overall reliability
- Be involved in the full lifecycle of software development from project proposal and planning to implementation and maintenance
- Collaborate with other departments on how to run production systems and deployments with autonomy
- Support teams with expertise in the areas of deployment, configuration, routing, monitoring and scalability in all parts of the stack
- Participate in an on-call schedule
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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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Aug 2022
$238m
SERIES E
Apr 2017
$73.9m
SERIES D
Total funding: $415m
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 HQ
Flatiron District, New York, NY
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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