Director, Software Engineering - Full Stack

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At Tickets.com we are changing the landscape of the live sports and entertainment industry. Tickets.com delivers innovative, cutting-edge technologies to enable safe, unforgettable fan experiences in venues across the globe. We are assembling a world-class technology team to build platforms and products that anticipate emerging opportunities, including dynamic pricing and offers and digital, contactless ticketing. The Tickets.com mission is to provide premium, innovative live experiences for our clients and their patrons.

We are looking for an experienced Engineering Director to lead our growing Full-Stack Engineering team and to help design and implement a modern, cloud-based platform. This is a hands-on role, for a leader prepared to engage with a team in solving challenging problems using state-of-the-art technology. Our goal is to provide a scalable platform service to drive the business of baseball and our clients’ businesses. You will partner with business stakeholders and product management to architect and build scaled, low-latency platforms that facilitate all aspects of feature and functionalities related to ticketing, which also includes report, analytics, and data visualization. The ideal candidate will be a tenacious and creative problem solver with the ability to quickly prototype solutions.

  • Recruit technical talent and build a world-class Software Engineering team
  • Collaboration with CTO, VPoE and Product Leadership to develop engineering roadmap 
  • Lead and motivate by presenting technical and organizational vision and feedback
  • Transform requirements into designs and estimate resources/time required
  • Define systems and software architecture using modern patterns and frameworks
  • Adopt modern platforms and manage resources effectively to optimize value
  • Deep affinity with various Agile processes and cultivating the Agile growth mentality
  • Evaluate and reimagine current Products, Platforms and Tools, including:
    • Web services for data collection, storage, analysis, visualization, and reporting
    • Integrate payment gateway provider and third-party services
    • Support mobile app and front-end integration

 

Technologies and Experience:

  • 5+ years of applied Full-Stack Software Engineering
    • Full-Stack development and management experience with extensive experience with HTTP, JSON, Rest, XML
    • Proficiency in SQL & DML
  • 5+ years of experience leading teams of 5-20 engineers
    • Recruiting, performance management, talent development
    • Agile process, including CI/CD, automated testing and SRE best-practices
    • Continuous improvement through measurement and feedback
  • Key technical domains:
    • Oracle, Postgres or similar database systems
    • Google Cloud infrastructure, including BigQuery
    • Java with Spring MVC
    • Web/Application Server, such as Nginx, Apache Tomcat
    • Containers/Orchestrators, such as Docker, Kubernetes
    • Messaging Brokers such as ActiveMQ, Google PubSub, RabbitMQ
    • Statistics and/or Machine Learning preferred
    • Knowledge of NoSQL, such as MongoDB, Cassandra, is a plus.