Engineering Lead, vivenu
Payments
Ticket sales management & marketing platform
Open for applications
Ticket sales management & marketing platform
101-200 employees
Open for applications
101-200 employees
Company mission
To create a ticketing platform that puts ticket sellers first, so they’re empowered to create experiences that people love.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: 10 years of total professional experience, with at least 3 years in a lead or management capacity
- Domain Expertise: Mandatory hands-on experience in payments, e-commerce, billing systems, or checkout flows. You understand the nuances of financial data and handling sensitive payment information
- Technical Proficiency: A strong foundation in backend development and API design principles as well as experience in web/full-stack development. While we use Go and TypeScript, we value engineers who can adapt quickly to our stack
- System Knowledge: Solid understanding of databases (NoSQL or SQL), caching mechanisms, message queues, and cloud-native environments (AWS/GCP, Docker, Kubernetes)
- Leadership Style: A "bar-raiser" mentality: proactive, self-driven, and focused on ownership. Excellent communication and social skills, with the ability to navigate complex stakeholder environments. Able to work with a senior team, supporting them in their growth
- Nice-to-Have: Experience with subscription billing platforms and a deep understanding of financial ledger systems
What the job involves
- This role offers an opportunity to scale and extend our payments platform to handle our ever-increasing volume and expand our global reach, while ensuring absolute reliability and technical excellence
- You will manage complex financial data flows on a platform that currently integrates with over 15 payment systems. You will lead the technical challenge of building, integrating, and evolving sophisticated payment solutions that empower our customers and define our financial infrastructure
- Architectural Leadership: Define and maintain the technical direction for our backend APIs, services, and checkout experiences. Ensure high performance, scalability, and security while handling large volumes of concurrent transactions
- Strategic Execution: Maintain a product-oriented lens on payments and money flows to make sure we build the right way for the future. Navigate incomplete requirements to drive execution to completion, ensuring the platform remains robust as we scale
- Team Growth & Mentorship: Foster team productivity and technical growth. Act as a mentor for the engineering team, lead code reviews, and conduct performance reviews to uphold high engineering standards
- Hands-on Development: Remain deeply involved in technical implementation, particularly in building our own managed payments platform. Design, develop, and maintain services focused on payment processing, billing, and seamless transaction flows
- Collaboration: Serve as the bridge between technical execution and business needs. Lead cross-team collaboration with other engineering teams, product, finance, and customer support teams to resolve payment-related issues, and improve user experience and build new features the right way
- Integrations & Compliance: Oversee the integration of third-party payment providers and gateways (e.g., Stripe, Adyen, Braintree). Ensure adherence to data security and compliance standards
Our take
Organising the ticketing for live and online events requires vast infrastructure, and therefore, many event companies use online ticketing platforms. However, these platforms often only offer basic ticket design options and come with unfair charges that greatly reduce revenue for the company.
vivenu provides a ticket sales management and marketing platform, focused on helping clients to customise the branding of tickets and their listings. The platform is designed to suit any scale of events company and uses a subscription pricing model to ensure that companies earn all of the revenue from the tickets they sell.
Whilst the company will face fierce competition from large ticketing platforms such as Ticketmaster, vivenu shows great potential to compete by identifying the need for a more customisable ticketing solution. Through its personalisation capabilities, scalability, and zero-fee ticket transactions, the company aims to help any event company optimise sales and grow without losing profits to marketplaces.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Nov 2021
$50m
SERIES B
Dec 2020
$14.6m
SERIES A
Total funding: $66.2m
Company HQ
Hamm, Düsseldorf, Germany
Leadership
Simon Hennes
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to co-founding vivenu in 2018, Simon was a Visiting Associate at Boston Consulting Group. They graduated from Università Bocconi with a Masters of Science in Finance.
Jens Teichert
(Co-Founder & CTO)Jens previously worked at Hiscale as a Developer before co-founding vivenu in 2018.
Simon Weber
(Co-Founder)Simon previously spent nearly 2 years at AXA working in Sales. They graduated from Goethe University Frankfurt with a Bachelor of Science in Economics and Business Administration & Management.
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