Sr. Software Engineer

Job Summary:

- Job: Senior Software Engineer - Backend Technologies
- Location: Remote (US)
- Division: Ticketmaster Tech
- Line Manager: Manager - Software Engineering
- Contract Terms: Full Time / Regular

CULTURE

We’re fans who help fans everywhere get into the live events they love. A proud division of Live Nation Entertainment, Ticketmaster has changed the way the world connects with their favorite artists, teams, and shows, and we continue to shape innovation every day. We’re not just selling tickets (though we do that better than anyone else), we’re enriching lives one amazing experience at a time. And we think that’s pretty amazing. If you’re passionate about the magic of live entertainment like we are, and you want to work at a company dedicated to helping millions of fans experience it, we want to hear from you.

We have a ‘Fan First’ mindset, placing customers at the heart of everything we do. Whether working behind the scenes or engaging directly with the ‘Fan’ you will be part of a culture that supports and enriches the fan experience. Your work, our passiondelivering world class experiences - Fan First.

THE TEAM

A career at Ticketmaster will challenge and engage you. The pace here is fast, the atmosphere is fun and a passion for live events is a common thread that ties us together. As a global and growing business, we can truly offer a world of opportunities to expand your skills and develop your career. Visit any of our offices and you'll find a diverse mix of passionate employees, helping fans around the globe connect with the artists, teams, and events they love. It truly is a unique and rewarding environment.

THE JOB

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who is independent, fast-learning, self-starter and provides technical leadership and mentoring to engineers within the team. The role will be responsible for translating business objectives into technical solutions and there by building, delivering and maintaining the products.

The role will be challenged to envision the technical aspects and solutions for the future landscape of globalizing the products. This role is a great opportunity to grow your technical/leadership skills and deliver highly impactful products that help millions of fans to experience live events.

WHAT THIS ROLE WILL DO
- Participate in development work across globally distributed software teams.
- Ability to organize, prioritize; multitask
- Connect with a series of stakeholders in order to gather as much information as possible regarding the problem at hand and provide technical recommendations and sizing.
- Objectively explore multiple approaches and recommend the best technical direction including logic and reasoning.
- Meaningful participation in web, native app and service layer architecture design.
- Spike and prototype.
- Write exemplary code.
- Own the full development and deployment cycle for your software.
- Encourage and mentor Junior Engineers in their craft.
- Automate testing, deployments, performance, and recovery.

TECHNICAL SKILLS/COMPETENCIES
- Good Knowledge and understanding of Object-Oriented Design patterns, principles and computer science fundamentals in data structures and algorithms.
- Expert in building microservices, and RESTful APIs.
- Strong experience in troubleshooting, debugging, fixing issues, and finding possibilities to automate routine tasks.
- Experience in a cloud-native stack; cloud services (e.g. AWS), containerized compute (e.g. Kubernetes), infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform), and CI/CD (e.g. GitLab).
- Professional experience and understanding of relational and non-relational databases.
- Understanding and experience in streaming data technologies (e.g. Kafka).
- Experience in creating testing harness/infrastructure/test cases/Automation geared towards ensuring the quality of the product using testing frameworks like Junit, TestNG, Mockito, WireMock, Jest.
- Experience with modern DevOps tools and workflows such as Docker, Prometheus, Grafana, Jira, or equivalents.
- Exhibits outstanding communication, collaboration, time management, mentorship, and working independently or with a team seamlessly
- Front-end development experience and knowledge of JavaScript, React.js, and Node.js is a plus.
- Familiarity with one or more scripting languages such as Python, Ruby, Perl or Bash.
- Experience in evaluating technical feasibility of a project, work breakdown and providing estimates on effort and risk.

BEHAVIORAL SKILLS/COMPETENCIES
- Autonomous and proactive
- Focus on results and desired outcomes and how best to achieve them
- Can consider multiple approaches and recommends the best technical direction including logic and reasoning
- Can work with mínimal supervision
- Can solve complex technical issues through debugging, research, and investigation
- Promote cooperation and commitment within a team to achieve goals and deliverables
- Maintain and fosters relationships within, across, and