Lead Platform 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: As a Lead Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for leading the design and development of scalable service-based solutions across Vivid Seats’ web, backend, and mobile platforms. This is a hands-on position that will define best practices for a fast paced agile team, translating ideas into quickly released code.
Responsibilities:
- Help define the overall design and delivery of Vivid Seats’ technology platform
- Work with engineering teams to understand the components and configuration of applications and services
- dentify development bottlenecks, improve automation, and leverage open source technology to deploy quality code, faster
- Mentor engineers, document and implement best practice coding standards, research and present new POCs, and proactively enhance our platform to create the best possible experience for our users.
Desired Skills and Experience:
- 8+ years relevant work experience in developing Web based, Distributed and Multi-Tier architecture
- 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
- Expertise in Java/JVM languages, REST, SQL, and messaging technologies
- Strong knowledge of modern front end technologies such as JavaScript and Single Page Application frameworks, familiarity with reactive programming models e.g. rxJava, rxJS
- Familiarity with NoSQL and real-time data pipelines
- Experience with Linux and Open Source Tools
- Familiar with DevOps and infrastructure management tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, Maven, Gradle, etc.
- Cloud platform experience with AWS/EC2
- Hands-on experience with TDD and BDD in an Agile Environment
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.