Engineering Manager, SeatGeek
Cloud Platform
$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
- You’ve successfully built and led lean teams, ensuring they’re productive, motivated, and capable of delivering impactful results
- You’re able to foster safe, collaborative & inclusive environments, where engineers feel empowered to do their best work
- You’re great at shaping and driving complex, user-focused roadmaps, and keeping your team focused in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
- You're able to break down complex technical concepts and explain them clearly to non-technical audiences, accurately representing the team's work to a wide range of stakeholders
- Knowledge of the technology industry to help your team make good tooling and framework decisions to set them up for success
- You understand how to lead by setting context, facilitating collaboration, and getting buy-in between cross functional partners in product, design, engineering and leadership
- You’ve worked as an Engineer in the past, are familiar with the challenges of that role, and preferably have had hands-on experience with the following:
- Tooling across our tech stack
- Building out highly available and distributed systems, especially in regards to container orchestration systems
- Layers 3-7 of the OSI model
What the job involves
- The Cloud Platform team owns the infrastructure and networking that powers SeatGeek.com, forming the backbone of our platform
- It's a senior & staff-level team working remotely across the US and EU, focused on building reliable, scalable systems that support the entire company
- After completing a major re-architecture that modernized our infrastructure, the team is now shifting focus to build the next phase of our platform
- As manager, you’ll lead this effort, guiding the team as they transform a strong technical foundation into a resilient, user-focused product
- Your role will be key in shaping the team’s roadmap, enhancing the developer experience, and driving faster, more reliable delivery across the company
- Manage a team of Platform engineers
- Own SeatGeek’s computing and networking infrastructure, maintaining a high standard of operational excellence across the platform
- Perform code and architecture reviews, and provide technical and design feedback to the team
- Play an active role in our recruiting process, helping us grow our engineering team in any way you can
- Provide regular job performance feedback, hold one-on-ones, and provide career development support to your direct reports
- Work with your Technical and Product counterparts to form a compelling vision and direction for the team that aligns with organizational and business goals
- Select new and work with existing technology vendors when necessary. You constantly make build or buy decisions together with your team
- Communicate technical and product decisions to the right people, resolve blocking issues, and collaborate with other leaders across the organization
- Our stack: You absolutely do not need experience with all of these, but we thought you might be curious
- Tools can be learned, so we care much more about your general engineering skill than knowledge of a particular language
- Languages: Python, Go, C#+.NET Core, Swift, Next.js, TypeScript
- Client Platforms: iOS, Android, Web (Desktop/Mobile)
- Technologies: OAuth2.0 & Identity Management, Payment Tokenization
- Event-driven Technologies: RabbitMQ, Kafka
- Datastores: Postgres, Redis, Memcache, Elasticsearch
- Cloud: AWS
- Version control: Git (Gitlab)
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.
Steph
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
$75.7m
SERIES D
Total funding: $416.8m
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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