Lead Front End Engineer
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:
Vivid Seats is looking for an Engineer to lead front end efforts and to define the front end technology strategy. As the Lead Front End Engineer, you’ll help set the direction for Vivid Seats evolving, scaling, high traffic marketplace and our UI capabilities.
This role will be responsible for not only defining the technical direction of UI and Web, but also plays a large role working with business stakeholders to defining features that deliver value and an exceptional experience for our customers. You’ll work with a team of engineers to refactor and update our code, setting a site wide standard UI and UX. Your work will reach a large audience, with over 100 million visitors over the last year.
If you are an expert at web technologies, skilled in architecting modern web applications, and passionate about front-end design patterns, this position is for you.
Responsibilities:
- Define the technical roadmap of Vivid Seats UI/Web Stack
- Drive new features from inception to production, working across the company with product managers, UX designers and other stakeholders
- Technical leadership and mentoring of Vivid Seats Web/UI engineers
- Create rich, compelling user interfaces using Javascript, HTML, and CSS
- Lead the team’s technical direction by exploring and implementing the latest in client-side technologies, including modern Single Page Application frameworks
- Identify and advocate the use of best tools, libraries, and processes for client side development
- Participate in an agile 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:
- 7+ years of experience developing highly available web and UI applications with state of the art front end web technologies (such as React, Angular, Backbone, Node, etc.)
- Expert-level knowledge of raw JavaScript (ES5 / ES6), CSS3, and HTML5
- Expert with common web application security concerns and how to prevent and fix exploits (XSS/clickjacking)
- Expert in debugging JavaScript and CSS
- Keen eye for usability and user experience
- Integrated front-end applications with various types of APIs
- Working knowledge of Javascript (including AJAX, DOM manipulations, JSONP, event models etc)
- 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.