Senior Full Stack Engineer

Who We Are

Founded in 2001, Vivid Seats is a leading online ticket marketplace committed to becoming the ultimate partner for connecting fans to the live events, artists, and teams they love. We believe in the power of experiences and are fiercely dedicated to building products that inspire human connections. Named as one of Built In's top places to work in 2024, we believe that our People are our greatest competitive advantage. To support our People, we have built a company culture that empowers our employees to embrace challenges, encourages unity through collaboration, and seeks to constantly evolve by leveraging data and inspiring innovation.

The Opportunity

As a Senior Full Stack Engineer, you’ll make highly visible enhancements to our platform by maintaining and building new features across our core Java applications and legacy Python system. Our teams work with a variety of applications that enable our ability to sell tickets, manage inventory, support our internal users, and provide a great customer experience from the website to the box office.

How Your Role Contributes to the Success of Vivid Seats

Help set the direction of the design and development of the backend systems powering our B2C Marketplace and Distribution products. Develop innovative solutions that give Vivid Seats a competitive advantage, encourage team members, and champion technology improvements for your delivery 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.

Role Expectations Over Time

• 30 days in: Complete new hire orientation, gain the resources you need to be successful, learn how ticket marketplaces operate, and acclimate to team and company norms.
• 90 days in: Contribute to our approaches, methods, or technologies to support overall business goals and drive team efficiencies.
• 180 days in: Play an active role in continued learnings to advance skill sets necessary for team goals, produce and deliver clean, correct code that drives team and company tech goals forward.

What You’ll Bring

Experience with modern front-end technologies such as JavaScript, React, and Single Page Application Frameworks and their interactions with APIs. Experience developing Web based, Distributed and Multi-Tier architecture using Java/J2EE or other major platforms (Python, Scala, Clojure, etc.) Experience designing, building and testing web services and APIs. Strong knowledge of Service Oriented Architecture, OAuth, Basic Authentication and PCI. Proficient in SQL and relational database modeling.

Location and Working Model

Located in Chicago, IL, we believe in a hybrid working model which provides employees the flexibility to take advantage of in-person and remote collaboration. Check out our brand new HQ office, bursting with the energy of live events fandom and the vibrancy of Chicago’s rising tech scene.

Our Commitment

We are an equal opportunity employer that values the critical importance of a diverse workforce and sense of belonging. Many of our roles have flexible requirements and we encourage you to apply regardless of whether you meet every qualification.