Senior API Developer, Ticket Tailor
£70-85k
2+ days a week in office
Online ticketing platform
Job no longer available
Online ticketing platform
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
£70-85k
2+ days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To empower a diverse range of event creators by making it easy and affordable to sell tickets online.
Role
Who you are
- 🐝 You have a good instinct about the user needs from product feedback and customer conversations
- 🦎 You strive for simplicity in your solutions and like to incrementally deliver small-pieces of long-term value
- 👾 You work from first-principles and a design-led mindset over copy-and-paste programming
- 🪼 You continually seek to maximise your impact in the work you deliver and how you manage your time
- 🦅 You’re equally happy collaborating with others and working unsupervised to solve deep complex problems in code
- 🦄 You value security, adopt a security mindset as you work, and ensure your squad follows secure practices
- 🦋 You have a strong understanding of API design patterns
- 🐯 You have a growth mindset, enjoy constantly learning, and are driven to progress
- 🐌 You use or are curious about using AI to enhance your productivity and quality
What the job involves
- We are looking for a senior API developer to join our team and take ownership of our API and integration products, bringing a strategic development approach
- Ticket Tailor is packed full of useful features and supports over 30k event organisers around the world; this means it is critical we drive for simplicity, ease of use and consistency across all our products, and unlock its power outside of the core web platform, via our APIs and integrations
- With a small engineering team and a purposeful roadmap, this is a great opportunity to be a key driving factor behind a rapidly growing platform
- As the first full-time API Developer you’ll have the opportunity to own the direction and roadmap of our APIs and integrations as we scale the platform, ensuring they are secure, robust, scalable and usable by many types of users and automations
- You’ll be the authority on a growing number of core integrations with third party platforms and seek to grow and expand the impact of our APIs
- Our current API powers our check-in app that handles admissions for over 8 million tickets annually, as well as a growing number of integrations and automations relied on by Event Organisers
- We’ve also built integrations with Zapier, Cyclr, Mailchimp, LinkedIn, and ticketing-specific tools to facilitate safe ticket swapping and ticket printing
- Our small team places a strong emphasis on ownership - we each own the tasks we deliver - from understanding the problem, to designing small blocks of long term value, to the quality of the solution delivered
- We test all new features and deploy multiple times a day
- 👁️ Owning the vision for our APIs ensuring we provide a high developer experience for our users
- 🌵 Evolving the capabilities and architecture of our APIs in line with business objectives and user needs
- 🌟 Maintaining the current APIs and integrations
- 🔐 Evolving the security, robustness, and performance of our APIs and integrations
- 🦾 Integrating and automating workflows with third parties like sales channels, CRMs, and automation channels
- 🦎 Increasing the adoption of our API
- 🦻 Mentoring other developers on the team on API best practices
Application process
- An initial Screening Call (30 minutes) ☎️
- A remote video interview with Jamie, our Tech Director to discuss your background in more depth (60 Minutes) 📽
- An on-site workshop consisting of a paired test, whiteboard exercise and culture interview (Usually around 3 hours)
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Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
Ticket Tailor is a ticketing platform that offers event organisers a simple way to manage event registration and sell tickets online. The platform includes features beyond ticket selling, for example allowing ticket sellers to customise the buying experience to match their website, accept payments directly to their account, and own their customer data.
As opposed to other similar platforms, Ticket Tailor doesn’t take a percentage of the ticket price. Instead, it offers flexible payment plans with no contracts. Its commitment to support event creators is shown by its free offering for free events, and its deals that give 50% off for charities, and 20% off for B-corps and PTAs.
Ticket Tailor prides itself on being completely independent, with no investors, and boasts B Corp certification since May 2022. Since launch, it has helped promoters and venues sell over 20 million tickets across the globe, being used by thousands of event organisers all around the world.
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Company benefits
- Relaxed working atmosphere
- Flexible working policy – we allow 2-3 working days from home a week and operate a core working hours policy, so you can come in a bit later or leave earlier depending on your needs
- 25 days of holiday (not including public holidays)
- Trust – we encourage self-led working and celebrate autonomous thinking
- Annual learning budget of £500 - we love to share what we’re learning in our weekly team highlights meeting
- Annual wellness allowance of £300 (for keeping fit, massages, mindfulness etc)
- Generous budget to set up your working environment
- Private healthcare cover (including therapy, dental, and optical)
- Work from anywhere allowance - we offer everyone up to a 2-week period each year where you can work remotely from any location
- Annual profit share based on company growth
Company values
- Keep it simple
- Focused on impact
- Driven by feedback
- Human after all
Company HQ
Hackney, London, UK
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Founders
Jonny White
(CEO)Founder of web development agency Zimma Web Development and Birmingham online events guide What's on in brum?.
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