Lead Engineer
Who We Are: Vivid Seats is the fastest-growing online marketplace for sports, theatre, and concert tickets. We are dedicated to providing our customers with the best ticket buying experience in the industry. We offer the perks, culture, and opportunity of an entrepreneurial start-up, supported by the scale, stability, and resources of over a decade of profitable growth.
At Vivid Seats, you won't ever be a sub or sitting on the bench — we'll give you the opportunity to carry the rock or grab the mic starting day one.
If you enjoy continually looking for ways to make an impact on your team, organization, and industry, we’d like to hear from you.
Job Description: As a Lead Engineer you will play an integral role in the growth and direction of Vivid Seats’ web development team. In addition to challenging, hands on coding responsibilities, this position will mentor front end engineers and manage technical work flow to ship quality code quickly.
Responsibilities:
- Identify web development needs, engineer, and deploy creative solutions across the full stack
- Lead development initiatives on technical projects and mentor team members in best practices
- Utilize Java server-side technologies to tie front and back end platforms together
- Create rich, compelling user interfaces using JavaScript, HTML, CSS and the latest in client-side technologies
- Participate in an agile, Lean-based development process
- Pair with product managers, designers, front & back-end developers, fans and customers to deliver experiences that engage and delight
Desired Skills and Experience:
- 5+ years of JavaScript experience (including AJAX, DOM manipulations, JSONP, event models etc.) and related libraries such as React, Angular, or Node
- 3+ years of professional Java/J2EE development experience
- Solid understanding of SQL (we use MySQL, but to each their own)
- Familiarity with agile development cycles & rapid prototyping
- A creative and organized developer who thrives in both an independent and small team environment
- A strong passion for progressive user experience and web development
What We Offer: Vivid Seats offers competitive compensation levels, substantial individual and team-based bonus opportunities, aggressive promotion timelines, and a variety of workplace perks. Specifically, staff has access to discounted event tickets, frequent in-office catered meals, monthly happy hours, team outings, free in-building gym memberships, subsidized healthy meal and snack programs, and summer sports leagues. Standard benefits are also offered including medical/dental/vision/life insurance, paid maternity and paternity leave, 401(k) plan with employer match, flexible hours and paid time off, and transit plan discounts.
Vivid Seats is an equal opportunity employer. Vivid Seats prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetic information.