Director of Software Engineering, 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
Live Nation's mission is to help live music fans more easily and quickly find concert tickets and information about their favourite artists and venues.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate will have a strong background in building real-time streaming applications along with utilizing modern technologies and practices
- Proven years of experience in engineering with strong emphasis on building complex real time streaming products
- Proven years of management experience, including mentoring and team leadership
- Strong experience using Java, spring boot and database technologies
- Good understanding of front-end frameworks like React/Angular
- Strong experience building real time data applications using streaming platform such as Kafka, Apache Flink or AWS SQS is preferred
- Understanding and knowledge on creating modern event driven architecture to generate real time insights
- Understanding of basic authentication protocols OAUTH2, OpenID Connect , API Keys
- Knowledge of software engineering best practices, version control systems (Gitlab), CI/CD pipelines
- Experience in working with cloud-based platforms (preferably AWS) and understanding of IAAC frameworks
- Strong leadership and management skills, as well as leading and developing high performing team
- Must have deep understanding of engineering principles, strong managerial skills and ability to drive innovation and operational excellence
- Extensive experience across multiple technologies governance frameworks, data security and data platforms
- Experience managing cross-functional teams in a geographically and culturally diverse environment
- Experience and understanding of modern observability platform and standards
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering or related field
- Experience working in Agile development environments and using tools such as Jira and confluence
- Strong verbal communication, ability to clearly communicate ideas, work status, advocate for (or against) a particular approach or design
- Excellent written and verbal communication interpersonal and presentation skills
- Must be able to manage multiple priorities, be result oriented and delivery focused
- Exceptional strategic thinking, problem solving and decision-making skills
- Excellent collaboration and partnering skills
- Ability to manage self and own time, deliver work on time, evaluate and estimate work
What the job involves
- Ticketmaster is looking for an experienced, motivated, technical Director of Software Engineering to lead our high performing team of accomplished engineers in developing modern analytics, insights and data integrations products solving complex problems and driving technical innovation
- As a Director of Software Engineering, you will be responsible for providing hands-on leadership to the team, defining technical vision towards building new features and product
- As a key leader you will collaborate cross functionally with PMO, Product and business partners to ensure success of our analytics and insights vision
- As a director of software engineering lead a team of high performing front end and backend engineers to build a real time analytics product
- You will recruit, manage, mentor and lead global team of software engineers
- Lead efforts to optimize, real time data streams and overall system performance and availability
- Drive initiatives to lower overall costs associated with data products
- Create review and assist in team designing and implementing technical strategy to build new products and features
- Manage cross team dependencies and work with tech leads on solutions
- Set performance metrics and expectation conduct regular performance evaluations and provide feedback to team members
- Identify skills and gaps and training needs within the team to create appropriate development plans
- Form strong functional relationships with product and business stakeholders to delivery solution to drive business value
- Foster a diverse and inclusive work environment, ensuring equal opportunities for all team members
- Promote and build a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, trust and autonomy
- Partner with product and UX teams to gather and understand requirements, discuss approaches, design solutions based on the requirements and create design documents for implementation keeping in mind costs, capacity, shelf-life and choosing the right tools and technologies
- Ensure best practices in data governance, security and compliance (GDPR, CCPA) managing data quality, lineage and security for data integration products
- Oversee design, development and maintenance of scalable engineering infrastructure, ensuring scalability performance and reliability
- Establish and promote best practices, standards and documentation to ensure reliability and maintainability of data products
Application process
- Please note that our business will be closed from 20th December 2024 and will reopen on 6th January 2025. Interviews will take place in January
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 2009, 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.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company benefits
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
Company values
- Live for artists - Artists are the heart of what we do and we have deep reverence and respect for their creativity. We believe live music is vital to art and culture which is why in 2019, we paid artists more than $6 billion, making Live Nation by far the largest financial supporter of musicians. Beyond global touring deals and festival performances, our Artist Nation group offers services such as management, business marketing and consulting to artists across all genres
- Live for decentralisation - We don’t believe in bureaucracy and we don’t mandate synergy. We keep our corporate teams small, because we trust that our decentralized divisions know how to make the best decisions for their businesses in real time
- Live for ideas - Part of working in a creative industry is imagining what could be and exploring the possibilities. We encourage everyone at Live Nation to dream big and email our CEO with ideas to move our business forward
- Live for entrepreneurship - Employees who thrive here are self-starters who are experts at what they do. While we give a tremendous amount of independence to our employees, we are also precise and exacting about performance. There is no hiding behind process here. You are evaluated on your results and concrete contributions to our business
- Live for focus - We have a long “To Do” list but an even longer “Not To Do” list. As the demand for live events continues to grow across the globe, we have to stay focused on our core mission of connecting artists with their fans for those magical hours of live music
- Live for talent - We believe talent comes from any place or background. This is not a place for elitists. We hire people for who they are – hard workers who deliver results and are passionate about what they do
Company HQ
Barbican, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Michael Rapino
(President and CEO, not founder)They worked for 10 years in various marketing and entertainment capacities at Labatt’s Breweries of Canada. They held several roles at Clear Channel Communications, including President and CEO of Global Music. They were named CEO and President of Live Nation in 2005.
People progressing
Joined as a Financial Accounting Manager in 2017, promoted to Director and then VP of Financial Accounting.
Joined as Executive VP Marketing in 2012, promoted to Senior VP & Head of Marketing after 2 years.
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