Senior Software Engineer, SeatGeek
Data Platform
$165-230k
+ Equity stake
Ticketing platform for live events
Open for applications
Ticketing platform for live events
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$165-230k
+ Equity stake
501-1000 employees
Company mission
SeatGeek’s mission is to help the world to experience more live.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for a Software Engineer who is obsessed with solving complex data problems and is excited by the idea of expanding SeatGeek’s ecosystem of data tooling, helping teams generate business value through data products
- Experience building business-critical software in a fast-paced environment. We'll be interested in hearing about what you've built and how
- Experience solving complex technical challenges. SeatGeek engineers create custom solutions to unique ticketing problems, including venue mapping, inventory tracking, and event matching. We'll be excited to hear about challenging problems you've solved
- Passion for software craftsmanship and product. You have well-considered opinions about how software should work, and hold yourself and your code to a high standard
- Commitment to your teammates. You enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different experiences and take pride in mentoring and learning from others
- You do not need experience with all of these, but we thought you might be curious
- What we care about is your experience, skills, and approach to problem solving. Tools can be learned
- Languages: Java and Python for general-purpose development
- Frameworks: Airflow, Flink, Spark on EMR clusters for distributed processing
- Stack: Docker containers running on k8s on AWS
- Streaming: Flink, Debezium, and Kafka
- Datastores: Postgres, Redshift and S3
- Other: AWS Lambda, Git, dbt, Docker
What the job involves
- Ship code to production many times a day across dozens of services
- Build a new stream ingestion process to efficiently send and store currently live listings as users see them
- Build and maintain our streaming data pipelines
- Create tooling and services that support our machine-learning applications and data products
- Evaluate new technologies and improve our software stack to keep our technological edge
- Communicate and collaborate with different stakeholders, like Data Scientists, Analysts, Software Engineers, and our Product team to produce requirements and detailed designs
Our take
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.
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Company Specialist
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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Leadership
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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