Senior Software Engineer

THE CHALLENGE

Eventbrite is a people-first organization. Our goal of building the global platform for live experience relies on the foundation of top talent and strong company culture. Eventbrite is seeking a Senior Engineer to join us in our mission to bring the world together through live experiences. Last year alone, our platform processed over 150 million tickets across over 3 million events organized by our creators. Our perfect candidate will leverage their years of experience innovating within our consumer facing ads product creating value for both our event creators and consumers.

THE ROLE

We seek Full stack Software engineers who are passionate about their craft to join our engineering team in Spain, although we’re remote friendly. We strive for teams completely autonomous and with full ownership of their services and roadmaps. Teams usually consist of front-end engineers, backend engineers, a product manager, a designer, Technical program manager, and an engineering manager. You will solve challenging technical problems and own your impactful products end-to-end. You will contribute to Eventbrite engineering’s culture of technical excellence through inclusivity and mentorship. This is more than an opportunity to join an amazing team, it is a chance to impact Eventbrite’s platform and organization at scale.

Our team is currently looking for a customer obsessed, highly collaborative, and entrepreneurial person to join our scrappy squad expanding on this revenue generating powerhouse. You will contribute to Eventbrite engineering’s culture of technical excellence through inclusivity, knowledge sharing, and mentorship. This is more than an opportunity to join an amazing team, it is a chance to impact Eventbrite’s platform and organization at scale. 

Team members follow an on-call rotation to ensure any issues are mitigated immediately and root causes are rectified.

THE TECH STACK

Eventbrite is one of the world’s largest Django-powered sites by request volume. Python, Django, and MySQL are the primary off-the-shelf technologies in our stack. We are hosted on AWS. PySOA, our services framework builds on these core technologies. On the frontend, we make extensive use of React and Redux. However, the company is transitioning to a completely new stack (such as Kotlin, DynamoDB, Lambdas, gRPC, Step Functions, etc.) where each team will have complete ownership and autonomy.  You have experience deploying and managing applications on AWS (e.g., ECS/Fargate, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda) and you are familiar with CI/CD tools and processes.

In this team, we are building new backend services using AWS services like Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB, CDK, etc. using TypeScript.

MINDSET

• You work collaboratively with your teams
• You enjoy mentoring and teaching colleagues at all levels, while also learning from them
• You know diversity is not an old wooden ship
• You feel modeling great behaviors set the culture and is important to success

THE SKILLSET

• A passionate Senior Software Engineer with a knack for both frontend and backend development. We value versatility and appreciate the unique strengths that each individual brings to the table, whether you excel more in either area. We also believe that a diverse skill set leads to innovative solutions and fosters a collaborative work environment.
• You have 5+ years of building applications to scale (see specific skill-set requirements below)
• You are data-driven and know how to find the data you need to support your ideas
• You care about making sure your code is maintainable and well tested
• You can influence architectural designs across the stack and languages
• You are a pragmatic programmer that understands how to balance quality, time to ship, and cost
• You are solution oriented constantly driving towards better outcomes for your customers
• You can improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
• You have a holistic approach to quality
• You have a track record of great collaboration skills, working closely with cross-functional partners from design, product, and/or data functions.
• You are able to communicate with the appropriate level of context and granularity to customers, cross-functional partners, and stakeholders.
• You enjoy teaching and mentoring colleagues.
• You can work proficiently in English.

BONUS POINTS FOR

• Experience building in the backend of an ad platform
• Experience building the backend in a reporting platform
• Experience with Timestream, Elasticsearch, or Snowflake
• Experience with event-driven architecture
• You have experience with ML at scale
• You have experience designing and developing Web APIs
• You have experience with Terraform or the AWS CDK