Senior Software 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 Senior Software Engineer, you’ll build new features on our public-facing site while pairing with and learning from those around you. We’re a Java shop, but believe in using the right tools for the job, and are working diligently to adopt cutting edge technologies and practices (think mobile and JavaScript applications, Knockout JS, BDD, Continuous Delivery, Big Data, and Cloud Services). We’re building an amazing team that will help hone your skills and take your career to the next level.
Desired Skills and Experience:
- 6+ years of web development experience using a major platform (Java/Groovy, .Net, Rails, Python, PHP, Scala, Clojure). We use mostly Java, but we’re flexible if you are.
- Proven ability to ship good code quickly
- Solid understanding of SQL (we use MySQL, but to each their own)
- Experience with JavaScript, and a genuine desire to build something awesome with it
- Passion for teaching and learning from others
- Dedicated to continuous improvement of yourself, team, process, and our customer experience
Experience We’ll Provide If You Don’t Have It Already:
- Hands-on with Test Driven Development (TDD) and Behavior Driven Development (BDD)
- Experience working in an agile methodology
- Sixth sense for optimizing architecture, code, and queries for maintainability, scalability and performance
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.