Senior Software Engineer, Vivid Seats
$135-165k
+ Annual bonus incentives and equity
Ticket exchange and resale platform
Open for applications
Ticket exchange and resale platform
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$135-165k
+ Annual bonus incentives and equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Vivid Seats' mission is to empower every fan to get to the live events that shape their most vivid moments and memories.
Role
Who you are
- Experience developing Web based, Distributed and Multi-Tier architecture using Java/J2EE or other major platforms (Python, Scala, Clojure, etc.)
- Experience designing, building and testing web services and APIs
- Strong knowledge of Spring, REST, Service Oriented Architecture, OAuth, Basic Authentication and PCI
- Ability to translate complex technical concepts into high-level designs and act as a subject matter expert in software design, architecture, implementation, deployment and support across our full platform
- Proficient in SQL and relational database modeling
- Familiarity with modern front-end technologies such as JavaScript and Single Page Application Frameworks and their interactions with APIs
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Engineer you’ll make highly visible enhancements to our platform by maintaining and building new features across our Core Java applications
- Our teams work with a variety of applications that enable our ability to sell tickets, manage inventory, support our internal users, and provide a great customer experience from the website to the box office
- Help set the direction of the design and development of the backend systems powering our Ticket Marketplace, Vegas.com
- Develop innovative solutions that give Vivid Seats a competitive advantage, encourage team members, and champion technology improvements for your delivery team
- Work cross functionally in Agile development teams that deploy to AWS production environments on demand, multiple times a day
- Tackle some of the most difficult challenges scaling an e-commerce marketplace by developing creative algorithms and features that maximize value and efficiency across the organization
- Partner with a team of Product Owners, Quality Engineers, and Engineers to deliver exceptional software, showcasing your work at the end each work cycle
- Implement your expertise for best practices in design patterns, code quality, testing, and innovation to keep our commitment of always putting our customers first
- 30 days in:
- Complete new hire orientation, gaining the resources you need to be successful
- Learn how ticket marketplaces operate and how you’ll contribute to providing great experiences for our customers
- Acclimate to team and company norms, business objectives, and Vivid Seats values
- Develop basic understanding of applications, tech stack, and development process
- 90 days in:
- Contribute to our approaches, methods, or technologies to support overall business goals and drive team efficiencies
- Maintain, harvest and aid internal and external relationships to achieve progress and advance objectives
- Contribute to team planning, estimations, and design sessions
- Delivery of stable and scalable front-end code for our inhouse marketing platform
- 180 days in:
- Apply methods to execute individual tasks that positively impacts the team
- Play an active role in continued learnings to advance skill sets necessary for team goals
- Have self-sufficiency in all applications touched by the team
- Actively contributes into larger team and engineering group objectives
- Produce and deliver clean, correct code that drives team and company tech goals forward
Our take
Founded in 2001, Vivid Seats is one of the leading online ticket marketplaces. The event tickets market is one of the biggest out there, expected to reach almost $85 billion by 2027, and the company has secured its place within it with partnerships with big players like ESPN, RollingStone, and the NBA.
The company's strategy has so far been based on massive public exposure through heavy spending on digital advertising, which has brought it great success to date. Its connects millions of buyers with thousands of ticket sellers each year, covering hundreds of thousands of different events.
Vivid Seats boasts high revenues and sustained growth, and went public in 2021. Following its listing on the NASDAQ, the company has been focusing on expanding operations and broadening its tech capabilities. A recent development is the company's Vivid Picks app, which combines live event and gaming experiences to target changing trends in the events ticket space.
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Insights
42% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2014
$5.2m
SERIES A
Mar 2012
$3.9m
ANGEL
Total funding: $9.7m
Company benefits
- Health, dental and vision packages: BCBS PPO, HSA and HMO plans, mental heath and telehealth programs.
- Retirement and savings programs, continuing education opportunities, and rewarding performance incentives.
- PTO, mental health days, and maternity/paternity policies.
- Company-wide town-halls, hackathons, product demos, in-office happy hours, holiday and summer events, company-sponsored sports leagues and competitions.
- Gym membership fees, wellness weeks, access to on-site treadmill desks, bike storage, fitness classes, and inspiring office spaces.
- Hybrid working arrangements at accessible office locations. Company-provided laptops, monitors, & software in-office. Room for ideas (open floorplan with plenty of meeting rooms, quiet areas, and whiteboards), and coffee. We’re talking good coffee.
Company values
- We Raise the Bar: We shape our industry – we are the competition. We’re ambitious and disciplined teammates who make smart plays and get better every day.
- We Create Exceptional Experiences: Whether we’re engaging a fan, seller, partner, or teammate, we don’t compromise when it comes to their experience. We hold ourselves accountable and lean into every connection to make the moment count.
- We Embrace Change: In our world, the only constant is change and we’re ready for it. As a team, we’re energized by working with speed and agility to anticipate; we’re unafraid to be self-critical and we drive relentlessly to get the best results.
- We Enhance Communities: We invest in our communities inside and out. We’re united in raising awareness around causes close to our hearts and are passionate about giving back.
- We Commit as a Team: Above all else , we’re one team that trusts and supports each other –our unity gives us the strength to tackle even the most difficult challenges facing our business. Driven in our pursuit of the optimal, we constructively voice our perspectives, and when the best play is called, we move forward together.
Company HQ
West Loop Gate, Chicago, IL
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Leadership
Eric Vassilatos
(Co-founder)Also Principal at Magnolia Capital and Managing Partner at SkyBox capital.
Stan Chia
(CEO)Board Director at 1871, and Board Member at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Former COO of GrubHub.
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