Staff Software Engineer, Ticketing

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November 13

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PlayOn! Sports

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Media • Sports • Education

PlayOn! Sports is a company specializing in providing digital solutions for high school athletics and activities. They offer a comprehensive platform that integrates athletic management, digital ticketing, broadcasting and streaming, concessions, sponsorships, fundraisers, and athletic websites. Their brands include GoFan, the NFHS Network, and rSchoolToday, which collectively serve thousands of schools with over 500,000 events annually. PlayOn! Sports aims to enhance community engagement and ease administrative tasks for schools by offering tools like digital payment options, event streaming, and activity management. They play a significant role in connecting fans and communities through digital engagement with local school events.

201 - 500 employees

📱 Media

⚽ Sports

📚 Education

💰 $26M Series D on 2013-07

📋 Description

• Drive architectural and design decisions for ticketing event management, ticket checkout (digital presale and POS), reserved-seating systems, redemption flows and concessions. • Collaborate with peer Staff Engineers in Shared Services and Fintech, as well as engineering managers and product leaders, to co-define priorities, surface trade-offs, and run proofs-of-concept for new directions. • Lead major initiatives such as: migrating microservices from ECS and Lambda to EKS; optimizing performance for high-volume ticket transactions; resolving data-model alignment between ticketing and other domains; improving consistency and maintainability of frontend and backend stacks. • Drive observability, automated governance and cross-surface reliability (web/mobile/backend) under load. • Mentor senior engineers and contractors, lead design review forums, own major RFCs, refine engineering process (CI/CD, load testing, monitoring). • Work with external vendors and partners (payment providers, reserved-seating / scanning hardware, POS integrations), evaluate technical risk, and drive vendor-agnostic solutions that support our scale and flexibility goals.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience (or equivalent depth) across backend, web and/or mobile systems. • Proven experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems, especially in e-commerce, ticketing, or event-driven domains. • Expert knowledge of Java; familiarity with Go, TypeScript/React/React Native; databases (PostgreSQL), stream/event systems (Kafka); data-warehousing (Snowflake) and modern orchestration (AWS EKS/ECS, SQS/SNS). • Strong system-level thinking — able to balance delivery of features with long-term platform health, performance, scalability and maintainability. • Excellent collaboration skills — able to work across teams and make decisions that favor product/engineering standards and business outcomes. • Passion for mentoring, raising engineering standards, and helping teams grow. • Experience integrating with Stripe or similar payment platforms preferred.

🏖️ Benefits

• Multiple medical insurance plans to choose from • Dental, vision life and disability insurance • Employee Emergency Fund • Company equity (stock options) • Open PTO policy • 401K plan with company match • Hybrid/flexible work environment