Software Engineer; VDC Las Vegas, Nevada

The Opportunity

As a Software Engineer III you’ll make highly visible enhancements to our platform by maintaining and building new features across our Core Java applications. Our teams work with a variety of applications that enable our ability to sell tickets, manage inventory, support our internal users, and provide a great customer experience from the website to the box office.

• Help set the direction of the design and development of the backend systems powering our Ticket Marketplace, and
• Develop innovative solutions that give Vivid Seats a competitive advantage, encourage team members, and champion technology improvements for your team.
• Work cross‑functionally in Agile development teams that deploy to AWS production environments on demand, multiple times a day.
• Tackle some of the most difficult challenges scaling an e‑commerce marketplace by developing creative algorithms and features that maximize value and efficiency across the organization.
• Partner with a team of Product Owners, Quality Engineers, and Engineers to deliver exceptional software, showcasing your work at the end each work cycle.
• Implement your expertise for best practices in design patterns, code quality, testing, and innovation to keep our commitment of always putting our customers first.

• Complete new hire orientation, gaining the resources you need to be successful.
• Learn how ticket marketplaces operate and how you’ll contribute to providing great experiences for our customers.
• Acclimate to team and company norms, business objectives, and Vivid Seats values.
• Develop basic understanding of applications, tech stack, and development process.

• Contribute to our approaches, methods, or technologies to support overall business goals and drive team efficiency.
• Maintain, harvest and aid internal and external relationships to achieve progress and advance objectives.
• Contribute to team planning, estimations, and design sessions.
• Delivery of stable and scalable front‑end code for our in‑house marketing platform.

• Apply methods to execute individual tasks that positively impact the team.
• Play an active role in continued learning to advance skill sets necessary for team goals.
• Have self‑sufficiency in all applications touched by the team.
• Actively contributes into larger team and engineering group objectives.
• Produce and deliver clean, correct code that drives team and company tech goals forward.

• 5+ years experience developing web‑based, distributed, and service‑oriented architecture using Java/J2EE or other major platforms.
• Experience designing, building and testing web services and APIs.
• Strong knowledge of Spring, REST, cloud‑native applications (AWS, Azure, etc.), OAuth, Basic Authentication and PCI.
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into high‑level designs and act as a subject matter expert in software design, architecture, implementation, deployment and support across our full platform.
• Proficient in SQL and relational database modeling.

Vivid Seats Pay Transparency Disclaimer:
Full time offers from Vivid Seats include annual bonus incentives and equity for all employees; FLEX PTO; mental health days; medical, dental, and vision insurance; 401k matching; monthly credits and discounts for attending live events; and a variety of additional workplace perks. The typical starting salary within the full salary range for this position can range. Factors which may affect starting salary include geographic market, relevant skills/experience, education, and other qualifications.

Full Salary Range: $125,000 – $150,000 USD

Location:

Las Vegas

We believe in a hybrid 3 days/week in‑office working model, which provides employees the flexibility to take advantage of in‑person and remote collaboration. Check out our brand new HQ office, bursting with the energy of live events fandom and the vibrancy of Chicago’s rising tech scene.