Senior Frontend Engineer, SeatGeek
Ticketing platform for live events
Job no longer available
Ticketing platform for live events
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To power a new, open entertainment industry where fans have effortless access to experiences, and team, venues, and shows have seamless access to their audiences.
Role
Who you are
- We're looking for bright, curious builders who want to help millions of people experience the thrill of live entertainment by improving and modernizing our enterprise ticketing product
- Frontend expertise and a willingness to get your hands dirty throughout the stack
- 7+ years of experience in software development, especially in architecting and implementing frontend solutions for complex cloud-based applications leveraging modern, browser-based frameworks and technologies
- Proficiency in at least one modern web programming language and comfortable with several others
- An opinionated mind on how scalable and reliable systems are structured, are hosted, communicate with each other, are observed & monitored, and handle authentication & authorization
- Natural curiosity with a bias for action; able to navigate and make sense of ambiguity to drive a coherent direction
- Commitment to your teammates. You enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different experiences and take pride in mentoring and contributing to the growth and success of other team members
What the job involves
- SeatGeek believes live events are powerful experiences that unite humans
- With our technological savvy and fan-first attitude we’re simplifying and modernizing the ticketing industry
- The ticketing industry is messy, complex and makes attending live events more difficult than it is; we believe a thoughtful application of software can fix that
- In the modern world of SaaS, rightsholders’ expectations of our ticketing platform are higher than ever; delightful and intuitive modern user interfaces, rich and performant API’s and seamless integrations whilst processing hundreds of millions of requests a month
- Enabling the SeatGeek Enterprise organization to do all of this is the mission of the Rightholders Edge team
- Spearheading the sustainable evolution of the UI platform to provide modern scalable front-end software that accelerates feature delivery for teams across the organization
- Building API gateways to provide observability, rate limiting, advanced routing, HA, whilst simplifying and standardizing our SaaS provisioning
- Defining endpoint architecture and aligning on usage of CDN, WAF, DDoS protection, throttles, standard auth n/z, thereby allowing teams to be more autonomous on modernizing their software in a safe and scalable manner
- Swapping out the engine while the plane is flying: evolving our platform in an uptime-critical setting, without compromising on our users’ experience
- Evaluating new technologies and improve our software stack to maintain our technological edge
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
$75.3m
SERIES D
Total funding: $416.4m
Company benefits
- Benefits: We provide access to high-quality health insurance coverage, ample paid time off, and a matching 401k program.
- Parental leave: Congrats on welcoming a bundle of joy into your life! We offer 16 weeks of leave in a 12-month period.
- Subscriptions: Health and wellness are incredibly important so we cover employee subscriptions to services like One Medical, Ginger.io and Headspace.
- Team events: Regular virtual team hangs & happy hours are essential, especially while we’re all working remotely. We also put our typical day-to-day work aside for company-wide hackathons 3-4 times per year.
- Ticket perk: SeatGeek employees receive a monthly ticket-purchase stipend for live events!
- Flexible work environment: Flexible work environment, allowing you to work as many days a week in the office as you’d like or 100% remotely. A WFH stipend to support your home office setup.
Company HQ
Flatiron District, New York, NY
Leadership
Jack Groetzinger
(Co-Founder & CEO)Jack is also a Founding Partner at Founder Creative. Previously, he founded Scribnia and worked as an Associate Consultant at Bain & Company.
Russell D'Souza
(Co-Founder)Previously, Russell co-founded Scribnia and worked as an Analyst at Monitor Group.
Eric Waller
(Co-Founder & CTO)Eric previously co-founded Niqos where he worked as a Web Developer for 3 years. He also served as a Web Developer at Tickerhound and as a User Experience Engineer at Amie Street.
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