Senior iOS 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 a Senior iOS Software Engineer to join our Mobile App Team. You’ll join a team of mobile and full stack engineers, contributing to the fast-growing Vivid Seats mobile platform. Our iOS app is written entirely in Swift deploying a suite of modern technology (Realm, Alamofire, and more) on top of it. We focus on features such as browsing and searching for tickets, viewing tickets in your mobile ticket wallet, and personalization by connecting Spotify/iTunes.
This is a hands-on position that will tackle some of our most difficult challenges innovating a mobile marketplace. You’ll work with business stakeholders to define and implement features that maximize value for the mobile team. As a technical subject matter expert on your team, you’ll also mentor engineers, bring new solutions to the table, and challenge the team to continuously improve.
Responsibilities:
- Architect, develop, and maintain the Vivid Seats iOS app
- Proactively enhance our platform and implement best practice coding standards to create the best possible experience for our users
- Work closely with Product, QA, and Design teams to prototype and implement creative solutions in an agile environment
Desired Skills and Experience:
- 4+ years developing mobile apps for iOS (Objective-C or Swift), experience with Android, Java, or React Native a plus
- Strong knowledge of consuming REST APIs and backend services, with experience building APIs a plus
- Passion for mobile platforms and keeping up with the latest technologies, usability, and user experience
- Familiarity with agile development cycles, continuous integration & rapid prototyping
- A creative and organized developer who thrives in both an independent and small team environment
- Must be able to learn new technologies with enthusiasm and a high degree of efficiency
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.