Principal Software Engineer

🕒 September 10

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Ticketmaster

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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

• Design and develop new systems and enhancements to existing systems • Break down complex problems and build efficient solutions • Work with product teams to identify reusable components and eliminate wasteful development • Own and evolve technical strategy and architectural direction across three teams • Review, enhance, and refactor infrastructure toward modern architectures • Design and develop high-traffic, large-scale software applications, data-flow processes, and deployment infrastructure • Build monitoring, alerting, automated build and deployment pipelines, and application performance metrics systems • Establish best practices for testing, enterprise standards, architecture, high availability, scalability, low latency, and fault tolerance • Establish shared engineering standards, patterns, and guardrails across the wider function • Identify and resolve systemic technical risks and cross-team dependencies • Design and build a comprehensive QA platform and solution • Lead solution design discussions and evaluate tools and technologies • Influence technology decisions and investment priorities with senior stakeholders • Ensure team solutions support enterprise architecture, scalability, reliability, and security objectives • Advise on significant or long-term technical decisions • Lead teams in developing new systems and initiatives • Guide, mentor, and support team members in applications, technologies, best practices, and processes • Review code for quality, correctness, and efficiency • Own day-to-day work-unit deliveries, participate in stand-ups, escalate blockers, and ensure timely completion of project and sprint goals • Communicate updates to stakeholders and coordinate timelines • Support team members in developing their skills

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field • Proficiency in one or more of Java, TypeScript, or NodeJS, with willingness to learn the others • 5+ years of experience building high-traffic web applications and deploying them to production • Experience with cloud-based platforms, preferably AWS • Experience supporting live applications, debugging, reading logs, and using Grafana or AWS CloudWatch • Experience writing SQL queries and working with SQL and NoSQL databases such as MySQL and DynamoDB • Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, and Helm • Experience with GitLab, CI/CD, Jenkins, and Sonar • Experience working in an Agile team • Ability to handle production issues and on-call support • Strong verbal communication and documentation skills • Ability to manage time, estimate work, and deliver on time • Ability to work across technical and product teams and manage expectations • Experience working across multiple teams and on cross-team projects • Desire and experience mentoring junior team members

🏖️ Benefits

• Permanent employment contract • 40 hours per week • Inclusive work environment • Support for balancing work and home life • Professional and personal development opportunities • Opportunities to enjoy new experiences and learn from talented colleagues

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