Engineering Manager, Backend Foundation

Job Description

• SeatGeek believes live events are powerful experiences that unite humans. With our technological savvy and fan-first attitude we’re simplifying and modernizing the ticketing industry. • We are looking for an experienced engineering manager to lead our Backend Foundation team. As the Engineering Manager, you’ll help ensure that the backend systems that power SeatGeek are performant, secure, and reliable. • The Backend Foundation team drives improvements to and maintains high standards of excellence across many of SeatGeek’s mission-critical applications. You’ll transform and sustain changes to application architecture, test and deployment processes, and essential business workflows to continue SeatGeek’s tradition of industry-leading technology.

Qualifications

• Excellent strategic mind that is able to set technical direction across backend engineering at SeatGeek • 7+ years as an engineer in a role that was mostly about writing backend code • 2+ years of experience as an engineering manager of productive, motivated teams • Experience building highly performant distributed applications • Irreproachable technical skills; your team should look up to you as a mentor • Knowledge of industry technology trends so that you can help your team make tooling and priority decisions and set them up for success • An understanding of how to lead by setting context, and experience facilitating collaboration between product, engineering and business leaders • Nice to have: Experience leading platform / foundation / infra teams and driving change across an engineering organization

Benefits

• Equity stake • 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 • Unlimited PTO • Up to 16 weeks of paid family leave • 401(k) matching program • Health, vision, dental, and life insurance • Up to $25k towards family building services • $500 per year for wellness expenses • Subscriptions to Headspace (meditation), Headspace Care (therapy), and One Medical • $120 per month to spend on tickets to live events • Annual subscription to Spotify, Apple Music, or Amazon music