Principal Software Engineer

🕒 September 11

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

Where this job comes from

Posted on Ticketmaster's careers page ↗Ticketmaster's careers page, not through a job board

First seen by Remote Rocketship September 11

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Ticketmaster

10,000+ employees

Founded 1976

🛍️ eCommerce

⚽ Sports

eCommerce • Entertainment • Sports

Ticketmaster is a leading ticketing platform that facilitates the sale of tickets for concerts, sports events, theater performances, and other live entertainment. The platform offers a user-friendly experience for purchasing tickets, as well as managing events and finding popular shows and games. Ticketmaster serves as the official ticket marketplace for many major sports leagues and artist events, making it a key player in the live entertainment industry.

📋 Description

• Lead technical design and delivery of scalable, maintainable application components across the TM1 Maps platform • Shape application architecture with focus on reliability, simplicity, observability, and long-term maintainability • Partner with Product Managers, UX, and engineering teams to translate product goals into technical plans • Build and improve micro-frontends and backend services using React, TypeScript, Java, and Spring Boot • Develop and operate services on AWS and Kubernetes • Design and support shared services, APIs, and integrations for internal and external teams • Promote automated testing, CI/CD, monitoring, alerting, performance tuning, and recovery automation • Mentor engineers through technical guidance, design feedback, and practical coaching • Build cross-team alignment and resolve technical roadblocks • Troubleshoot complex production issues and improve reliability and performance of real-time, end-to-end systems • Participate in the team’s on-call support rotation • Own end-to-end delivery of new functionality in a DevOps and Agile team

🎯 Requirements

• Strong professional experience building and operating production software systems • Strong Java development skills, including Spring Boot • Strong frontend development experience with React, JavaScript, and TypeScript • Experience with NodeJS and Express • Experience designing shared services, APIs, and distributed applications • Experience with microservices or event-driven architecture • Experience applying software design patterns, SOLID principles, and maintainable engineering practices • Experience improving, modernizing, and supporting legacy systems • Experience with production reliability, monitoring, alerting, troubleshooting, and performance improvement • Experience with CI/CD and delivery tooling such as Maven, GitLab CI, or similar • Working knowledge of database technologies such as DynamoDB, Oracle, MySQL, or MongoDB • Experience working in Agile and DevOps-oriented teams with responsibility for delivery and production support • Ability to influence technical direction across teams without direct people-management authority • Working knowledge of Elasticsearch (preferred) • Working knowledge of Kafka (preferred) • Experience building or operating services on AWS (preferred) • Experience deploying or supporting applications on Kubernetes (preferred) • Experience supporting teams integrating with shared platforms or services (preferred) • Autonomous, proactive, and comfortable leading technical work with minimal supervision • Clear communication with engineers, product partners, UX, and remote teammates • Comfortable mentoring engineers and raising technical standards • Pragmatic approach to modernization • Comfortable working in cross-functional and multidisciplinary teams

🏖️ Benefits

• Inclusive work environment • Support to balance work and homelife • Professional and personal development opportunities • New experiences and learning from talented colleagues • Equal employment opportunities • Accessible leaders, attentive managers, and enthusiastic teams • Human review of AI-assisted application screening and assessment

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