Engineering Manager, Backend Foundation

Job Description

• 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