Senior and Staff Front End Engineer, Gametime
$204-251.2k
+ Equity
Last-minute ticket platform
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Last-minute ticket platform
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$204-251.2k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To connect people trough incredible shared experiences.
Role
Who you are
- Senior Engineer – Typically 5+ years of experience. Delivers complex solutions independently and contributes to technical decisions
- Staff Engineer – Typically 8+ years of experience. Leads cross-functional initiatives, drives technical direction, and mentors others
- We hire based on impact and capability, not just years of experience. We encourage you to apply and your level will be fully determined and agreed in the interview process
- Experience with React Native and TypeScript or cross-platform mobile development
- Familiarity with Next.js or similar SSR/SSG frameworks and edge-rendering patterns
- Proficient with modern state management (Zustand, Redux Toolkit, React Query, or similar) and REST/GraphQL data-fetching patterns
- Strong UI engineering fundamentals, including responsive/adaptive design, accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA), cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility, and thoughtful use of motion and animation
- Comfortable with frontend testing: unit, integration, and end-to-end (Jest, React Testing Library, Playwright or Cypress)
- Experience building or maintaining a shared design system or component library at team scale
- Contributions to open-source projects or public technical writing that demonstrates depth of craft
- Exposure to web3 or digital-goods purchasing flows (not required—but we’re curious)
- Demonstrated ownership of consumer-facing products at a meaningful scale of millions of users or transactions.
- Experience with experiment-driven product development, using A/B testing and quantitative analysis to validate hypotheses and guide iteration
- AI curiosity and fluency with tools like Cursor, Claude, or ChatGPT is a plus
- Collaborative mindset with a passion for solving problems and building great products
- Prior work in a two-sided marketplace, ticketing, or high-transaction-volume e-commerce product is preferred
What the job involves
- We’re hiring Senior and Staff Front End Engineers at Gametime to help build and scale the systems, applications, and experiences that power Gametime for millions of users. You’ll own a significant surface area of our consumer-facing web and mobile web experience—the product millions of fans use to discover events, find the best seats, and complete purchases in seconds
- You’ll work closely with Product, Design, and backend engineers to ship features that move core metrics, and you’ll raise the bar on craft, performance, and reliability across the team
- This is a high-ownership role on a small, focused team. You’ll be expected to drive technical decisions, mentor other engineers, and partner directly with stakeholders to define how features get built—not just implement what’s handed to you
- Own high quality end-to-end delivery of major consumer-facing features—from technical design through launch, experimentation, and iteration
- Drive frontend architecture decisions: component design, state management, data-fetching patterns, and performance budgets
- Build and optimize conversion-critical flows (event discovery, seat selection, checkout) with a relentless focus on speed, reliability, and UX quality
- Design, instrument, and interpret A/B experiments in partnership with Product and Data; use results to validate and sharpen product decisions
- Instrument frontend observability—error tracking, performance monitoring, real-user metrics—and act on what you find
- Contribute to design-system components and front-end standards that accelerate the whole team
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through code review, pairing, and technical leadership on shared initiatives
- Collaborate with mobile, backend, and platform teams to deliver cohesive cross-platform experiences
Our take
Gametime is a last-minute event ticketing platform that aims to stand out from the myriad of similar apps by allowing customers to buy a ticket after the event has started. The reason for this is that ticket prices for sports often fall dramatically after the game has started, making the most of the easy-to-use, quick-buy app's features.
Though this may only cater to a small percentage of its customers, it exemplifies a certain boundary pushing from the company. This is clearly something that the market supports, given its substantial fundraising. In addition, Gametime’s position as both a seller and buyer marketplace has placed it in a great position as a commentator on live events, collecting valuable data.
With the demand for great-value event tickets likely to continue to grow, Gametime is in a prime position to capitalize on this trend. The company currently sells tickets for the North American continent, and is seeing huge revenue across the sports, theatre, and music concert markets. It also continues to invest in enhancing its products, for example by implementing Algolia’s AI search feature.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
38% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
May 2022
$30m
EARLY VC
Sep 2017
$8.2m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $71.5m
Company benefits
- Health Benefits: Medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
- Equity: An ownership stake in the company you'll be helping to build
- Flexible PTO: 'Take what you need' vacation policy (we actually mean it)
- Remote First: Fully remote company
- Remote Work stipend: Monthly stipend to offset the cost of internet and any home office updates
- Paid Parental Leave: Peace of mind for parents to dedicate their time to the care of their new child
- Gametime Credit: Monthly Gametime credit to experience the product for yourself
- Team Celebrations: Company meetups and events in different cities across the US
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Brad Griffith
(Founder & CEO)Currently Visiting Lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Previously worked in Growth, iOS Development and Interactive Marketing at Zappedy, and was a Quantitative Researcher at LOLapps.
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