Engineering Manager, SeatGeek
Web Foundation
$160-250k
+ Equity
Ticketing platform for live events
Job no longer available
Ticketing platform for live events
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$160-250k
+ Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
SeatGeek’s mission is to help the world to experience more live.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years as an engineer in a role that was mostly about writing front end or full stack code
- 2+ years of experience as an engineering manager of productive, motivated teams
- You have experience building highly performant web applications
- You have irreproachable technical skills, and your team should look up to you as a mentor
- With your knowledge of industry technology trends you can help your team make good tooling and framework decisions setting them up for success
- You understand how to lead by setting context and facilitating collaboration between product, design, engineering and business leaders
- Nice to have: You have experience leading platform / foundation / web infra teams and driving change across an engineering organization
What the job involves
- We are looking for an experienced engineering manager to lead our Web Foundation team
- As the engineering manager, you’ll help ensure that SeatGeek.com is the best live events site in the world
- You’ll lead the Web Foundation team that works across the Fan Experience organization to ensure that our fan-facing sites are fast, reliable, and meeting fans’ needs
- You’ll drive long term improvements in code, architecture, and processes to enable a wonderful fan experience
- You’ll partner with your peers to sustain improvements through tooling, training, and communication
- Manage a team of front end and full stack engineers
- Provide regular job performance feedback, hold one-on-ones, and provide career development support to your direct reports
- Guide the team to improve operational and engineering best practices to keep our development machine humming
- Set technical priorities, communicate business context to the team, build excitement about how innovative technology can enhance our core business
- Play an active role in our recruiting process, helping us to grow our engineering team in any way you can
- Perform code reviews and provide technical and design feedback to the team
- Partner with your product counterpart and engineering peers in planning cycles, and help us keep our priorities in order
- Communicate technical and product decisions to the right people, resolve blocking issues, and collaborate with other leaders across the organization
- The tools we use: You absolutely do not need experience with all of these, but we thought you might be curious. Tools can be learned, so we care much more about your general engineering skill than knowledge of a particular language
- Languages: Typescript (team’s primary language), Python
- Libraries / Frameworks: Next.js, React
- Infrastructure / Tools: AWS, K8s, Fastly, Datadog, Mixpanel
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
For many fans, buying tickets online can be a time-consuming and frustrating process. SeatGeek is setting out to ease this problem by powering an open entertainment industry that provides fans with greater access to experiences, while enabling teams, venues, and shows to have seamless access to their audiences.
SeatGeek launched with a laser-sharp focus on creating a customer-oriented ticketing marketplace for sports and live events. Its commitment to optimizing fan experience has helped distinguish the company from rivals, such as Ticketmaster and Live Nation, with its expanding suite of simple features that have made it the highest-rated and most trusted ticketer.
SeatGeek has secured integration partnerships with Facebook, Spotify and Snapchat, and has an impressive client list that includes the Dallas Cowboys, Manchester City FC, and the Brooklyn Nets. It continues to onboard enterprise clients, expand its international presence and release new products such as "Next Fan Up", positioning it well for future success.
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Aug 2022
$238m
SERIES E
Jul 2020
$121m
SERIES D
Total funding: $462.2m
Company benefits
- Health Insurance Coverage
- Ample Paid Time Off
- 401k Matching Program
- Parental Leave - 16 weeks of leave in a 12-month period
- Health and wellness subscriptions to services like One Medical, Ginger.io and Headspace
- Regular virtual team hangs & happy hours + Company-Wide Hackathons 3-4 times per Year
- SeatGeek Monthly Ticket-Purchase Stipend
- Flexible work environment - Work as many days a week in the office as you'd like, or 100% remotely
- WFH Office Setup Stipend
Company values
- Start With Fans - When fans win, everyone wins
- Be Humbold - We're bold, but humble
- Pull Back The Curtains - We put outsized focus on building the most talented team possible
- Don't Do Bullsh*t Work - If unchecked, every job results in too many hours spent on bullsh*t work. We design how we work to spend the most time doing rather than preparing to do
- Stack The Lineup - Our team is our biggest unfair advantage, and the best teams bring together different backgrounds and experiences
- Play Long Ball - We take big bets on the future
Company HQ
Flatiron District, New York, NY
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Founders
Jack Groetzinger
(Co-Founder & CEO)Worked as a consultant for Bain. Founded and sold another startup, Scribnia, before founding SeatGeek.
Russell D'Souza
(Co-Founder)Worked as an analyst for Monitor. Founded and sold another startup, Scribnia, before founding SeatGeek.
Eric Waller
(Co-Founder)Worked as a Web Developer at Tickerhound. Co-founded and was a Web Developer at Niqos.
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