Lead Engineer
The Opportunity
Vivid Seats is the largest independent online ticket marketplace, sending tens of millions of fans to live events every day. Experiences Matter. The importance of them is expanding rapidly as the industry continues to grow year over year. Working at Vivid Seats puts you front and center at the opportunity to scale our best in class platform that allow our fans to sit closer and see more.
At Vivid Seats, you will have the opportunity to work with the flexibility and the speed of a startup while operating at massive, profitable scale. We keep our teams lean, giving every single employee direct accountability to creating a positive ticket buying experience. We are relentless and move quickly to release new features and content to our applications daily. Your ideas are heard and implemented, your hard work rewarded. Being a part of our team means that you have the ability to drive impact and own the innovation that allows us to connect our tens of millions of unique monthly users to the memorable experiences that live events create.
Job Description
Vivid Seats is looking for a technical lead to shape and drive the company's API and integration strategy. As a Lead Engineer, you will help set the direction of the design and development of Vivid Seats evolving, scaling, high traffic marketplace through internal and external published APIs.
This is a hands-on position that will tackle some of our most difficult challenges scaling an ecommerce marketplace. You'll work with business stakeholders to define and implement features that maximize value and efficiency across the organization. As the technical subject matter expert on your team, you'll also be tasked with mentoring engineers, bringing new solutions to the table, and challenging the team to continuously improve.
Our marketplace continues to expand with our applications handling more requests each month. If you are an expert in architecting modern APIs and passionate about translating innovative ideas into quickly released code, this position is for you.
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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.