Lead Software Engineer, 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
To help live music fans more easily and quickly find concert tickets and information about their favourite artists and venues.
Role
Who you are
- Solid experience developing production-quality software at scale
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience
- Strong Java programming skills
- Strong backend development skills, including multithreading, thread pools, and object-oriented design
- Strong knowledge of web application testing strategies (unit, integration, UAT, capacity testing)
- Strong knowledge of REST and GraphQL APIs
- Strong knowledge of multiple database products (e.g. DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, MySQL, Cassandra)
- Strong experience building Spring Boot classic and reactive microservices with Java
- Strong knowledge of distributed, service-oriented, microservice, and cloud-based architectures
- Strong experience building cloud-native applications using AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes
- Proven track record designing architectures for web applications (CDN, API Gateway, Backend-for-Frontend, authentication, security)
- Proven experience working in Agile and DevOps development environments
- Strong knowledge of DevOps, CI/CD best practices, and guidelines
- Proven track record of building complete continuous delivery and continuous deployment pipelines
- Experience coaching engineers and documenting best practices
- Strong experience troubleshooting, debugging, fixing issues, and building methodologies to prevent recurrence
- Ability to learn new technologies and paradigms rapidly
- Expertise in data engineering technologies and practices (e.g. Databricks, Spark, dbt)
- Has advanced troubleshooting techniques and resolves problems as they occur
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, frequently identifying enhancements
- Demonstrates sound judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions
- Actively participates in overall solution and architectural design
- Brings clarity to ambiguous or poorly understood system behaviour by forming hypotheses, validating them with data (observability, logs, metrics), and communicating findings clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Proactively reviews performance, security, and quality data to ensure accuracy and identify issues
- Is open-minded and actively seeks opportunities to try new ideas and approaches
- Imports good ideas from similar situations experienced within their team or across Technology
- Ensures all work is performed to high standards
- Experience working asynchronously with colleagues in different time zones
- Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with other teams and clients
- Ability to prioritize work based on urgency and importance
What the job involves
- In the role of Lead Software Engineer, you will join the Pricemaster team, focusing on delivering an application that empowers our clients to price their events better
- Your role is to lead the development of software solutions that enable efficiency, security, and reliability
- You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining robust software solutions that meet business requirements and address emerging security threats
- You will work closely with a variety of stakeholders to ensure seamless integration of software solutions with existing infrastructure services
- You’ll also be expected to get up to speed quickly on existing systems and make pragmatic, cost-aware decisions when maintaining or evolving them—prioritizing the most critical issues and delivering improvements iteratively while balancing delivery speed, risk, and long-term maintainability
- Ensuring that software is built with robustness, availability, and security risks in mind
- Leading the technical vision and implementing the necessary technical frameworks and libraries that simplify day-to-day feature development
- Designing and implementing automation, monitoring, and infrastructure
- Continuously optimizing services across all layers (infrastructure, platform, software) for high availability, reliability, and performance
- Rapidly building a working mental model of complex, sometimes undocumented systems by analysing runtime behaviour, logs, metrics, traces, data flows, and code paths
- Evaluating options to maintain or evolve existing systems (refactor, re-architect, strangler or incremental replacement, or rewrite) and recommending the most appropriate approach based on impact, risk, and total cost of ownership
- Making pragmatic trade-offs when working with legacy systems, balancing short-term delivery needs with long-term platform health
- Providing technical mentorship and guidance to junior team members
- Exercising independent judgment in methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results
- Participating in on-call and potentially some after-hours support as required
- Collaborating with Product, Design, PMO, and other partners to achieve expected outcomes
- Participating in the design and development of new features as well as enhancements of existing system capabilities, always creating value for the user
- Promoting a culture of quality within the team by applying recognized software quality practices
- Navigating ambiguity in complex technical environments and proactively bringing clarity to stakeholders through structured analysis and clear communication
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 2005, 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
- HEALTH: Medical, Dental and Vision benefits for you and your family, including Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Health Savings Accounts (HSAs)
- YOURSELF: Paid time off policy including holidays, sick time, and day off for your birthday, free concert tickets
- WEALTH: 401(k) program with company match, Stock Program Reimbursement
- FAMILY: New parent programs & support including caregiver leave and baby bonus, infertility support
- CAREER: Tuition reimbursement, student loan repayment internal growth and development programs & trainings
- OTHERS: Volunteer time off, crowdfunding network
Company HQ
Beverly Hills, CA
Leadership
Michael Rapino
(CEO & President)Michael joined Live Nation Entertainment in 2005 as CEO and President. Previously, he spent 10 years in various Marketing and Entertainment roles at Labatt's Breweries of Canada. He also held several roles at Clear Channel Communications, including CEO and President of Global Music.
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