• The Core Engineering department owns the infrastructure and networking that powers SeatGeek.com along with transversal capabilities in our stack ranging from application frameworks, developer experience to security and resilience
• As manager, you’ll lead one or more teams in core engineering, guiding the team as they transform a strong technical foundation into a resilient, user-focused product. Your role will be key in shaping the team’s roadmap, enhancing the developer experience, and driving faster, more reliable delivery across the company
• Manage a team of strong senior engineers
• Own a transversal core engineering domain maintaining a high standard of operational excellence and driving tactical and strategic vision for this domain
• Code and architecture reviews, and provide technical and design feedback to the team
• Play an active role in our recruiting process, helping us grow our engineering team in any way you can
• Provide regular job performance feedback, hold one-on-ones, and provide career development support to your direct reports
• Work with your Technical and Product counterparts to form a compelling vision and direction for the team that aligns with organizational and business goals
• Select new and work with existing technology vendors when necessary. You constantly make build or buy decisions together with your team
• Communicate technical and product decisions to the right people, resolve blocking issues, and collaborate with other leaders across the organization

Benefits

• Benefits: We provide access to high-quality health insurance coverage, ample paid time off, and a matching 401k program.
• Parental leave: Congrats on welcoming a bundle of joy into your life! We offer 16 weeks of leave in a 12-month period.
• Subscriptions: Health and wellness are incredibly important so we cover employee subscriptions to services like One Medical, Ginger.io and Headspace.
• Team events: Regular virtual team hangs & happy hours are essential, especially while we’re all working remotely. We also put our typical day-to-day work aside for company-wide hackathons 3-4 times per year.
• Ticket perk: SeatGeek employees receive a monthly ticket-purchase stipend for live events!
• Flexible work environment: Flexible work environment, allowing you to work as many days a week in the office as you’d like or 100% remotely. A WFH stipend to support your home office setup.

• You’re great at shaping and driving complex, user-focused roadmaps, and keeping your team focused in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Knowledge of the technology industry to help your team make good tooling and framework decisions to set them up for success
• You understand how to lead by setting context, facilitating collaboration, and getting buy-in between cross functional partners in product, design, engineering and leadership
• You’re able to break down complex technical concepts and explain them clearly to non-technical audiences, accurately representing the team’s work to a wide range of stakeholders
• You’ve successfully built and led lean teams, ensuring they’re productive, motivated, and capable of delivering impactful results
• Building out highly available and distributed systems, especially in regards to container orchestration systems
• You’ve worked as an Engineer in the past, are familiar with the challenges of that role, and preferably have had hands-on experience with the following:
• You’re able to foster safe, collaborative & inclusive environments, where engineers feel empowered to do their best work
• Tooling across our tech stack