Vivid Seats · 6 hours ago
Software Engineer
Chicago, IL
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$125K/yr - $150K/yr
5+ years expVivid Seats is a leading online ticket marketplace that connects fans to live events. As a Software Engineer III, you will enhance the platform by maintaining and building features across Core Java applications, working collaboratively in Agile teams to tackle challenges in scaling the e-commerce marketplace.
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Responsibilities
Help set the direction of the design and development of the backend systems powering our Ticket Marketplace, and Vegas.com
Develop innovative solutions that give Vivid Seats a competitive advantage, encourage team members, and champion technology improvements for your team
Work cross functionally in Agile development teams that deploy to AWS production environments on demand, multiple times a day
Tackle some of the most difficult challenges scaling an e-commerce marketplace by developing creative algorithms and features that maximize value and efficiency across the organization
Partner with a team of Product Owners, Quality Engineers, and Engineers to deliver exceptional software, showcasing your work at the end each work cycle
Implement your expertise for best practices in design patterns, code quality, testing, and innovation to keep our commitment of always putting our customers first
Complete new hire orientation, gaining the resources you need to be successful
Learn how ticket marketplaces operate and how you’ll contribute to providing great experiences for our customers
Acclimate to team and company norms, business objectives, and Vivid Seats values
Develop basic understanding of applications, tech stack, and development process
Contribute to our approaches, methods, or technologies to support overall business goals and drive team efficiencies
Maintain, harvest and aid internal and external relationships to achieve progress and advance objectives
Contribute to team planning, estimations, and design sessions
Delivery of stable and scalable front-end code for our inhouse marketing platform
Apply methods to execute individual tasks that positively impacts the team
Play an active role in continued learnings to advance skill sets necessary for team goals
Have self-sufficiency in all applications touched by the team
Actively contributes into larger team and engineering group objectives
Produce and deliver clean, correct code that drives team and company tech goals forward
Qualification
Required
5+ years experience developing Web based, Distributed and Service-Oriented architecture using Java/J2EE or other major platforms
Experience designing, building and testing web services and APIs
Strong knowledge of Spring, REST, Cloud native applications (AWS, Azure, etc), OAuth, Basic Authentication and PCI
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
Proficient in SQL and relational database modeling
Familiarity with modern front-end technologies such as JavaScript and Single Page Application Frameworks and their interactions with APIs
Benefits
Annual bonus incentives
Equity for all employees
FLEX PTO
Mental health days
Medical, dental, and vision insurance
401K matching
Monthly credits and discounts for attending live events
A variety of additional workplace perks
Company
Vivid Seats
Vivid Seats operates as an online ticket marketplace that connects fans with event ticket sellers.
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$368.1MKey Investors
Vista Equity Partners
2023-12-08Post Ipo Secondary· $120.25M
2021-12-22Post Ipo Equity· $22.85M
2021-10-19Post Ipo Equity· $225M
Leadership Team
Lawrence Fey
Chief Executive Officer
Eric Vassilatos
Co-Founder
Recent News
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