Engineering Team Lead, TodayTix

About the Role

We’re looking for an Engineering Team Lead to join the Today Tix team and own how we build. Today Tix is TTG's flagship consumer product — the mobile app and web experience connecting millions of people with live events they love. You'll lead the team that delivers it end-to-end: native iOS and Android, the web and in-app experiences, the backend behind them, and the lifecycle messaging that brings customers back — shipping work that moves the metrics that matter most to the business.

This is a technical leadership role, not a heads-down coding one — most of your time goes to architecture, code review, technical strategy, and cross-functional leadership, with hands‑on coding a deliberate minority. You lead by setting direction, raising the team's bar, and owning delivery, quality, and stakeholder expectations across a high-demand roadmap. The team is in an acceleration phase — sharpening prioritization, raising the engineering bar, and shifting from shipping projects to owning outcomes — and you'll be central to that shift on the engineering side.

If you thrive in a fast-moving, high-ownership environment, measure your impact by the team's, not just your own, and care as much about business impact as technical craft, we'd love to hear from you — especially if, like the rest of the team, you reach for AI by default.

Full-time position based in New York. 2 days per week in the office is encouraged, with flexibility elsewhere.

• Measurable impact shipped
  - Initiatives launch with defined success metrics and honest post-launch analysis, and by the end of your second quarter, your team's work has visibly moved metrics the business cares about.
• A faster, more autonomous team
  - The team ships measurably faster than when you joined, engineers deliver end-to-end without your constant involvement, and reports are visibly leveling up.
• Quality by design
  - Quality and performance don't erode as the team ships — SLOs guard them, feature work stays balanced against maintenance, bugs get addressed instead of accumulating, and UX improves proactively.
• Architecture that holds
  - Your design decisions hold up as the product grows — new features get easier to build, not harder, and design flaws get caught in review, not production.
• Trust through ownership
  - You communicate early and own outcomes, surfacing misses before they surprise anyone, so partners trust you and bring you problems, not tickets.

• Own delivery end-to-end across the team's full surface — mobile, web, and backend — and the business outcomes it drives.
• Partner closely with product, design, and growth — bring engineering reality into roadmaps early and evaluate UI/UX for the customer and the business, not just function.
• Run intake and prioritization: sequence work against business objectives, keep concurrent projects on track, and set realistic commitments — what ships, what waits, and why.
• Start big bets small: ship the thinnest slice that proves the idea, and grow it only on evidence.
• Lead and grow the team — 1:1s, feedback, and career development.
• Protect quality systematically — SLOs as guardrails, feature work balanced against maintenance, rigorous code review, and a release pipeline that catches regressions before customers do.
• Set technical direction and architecture — scope cross-stack features to land as one coherent change, and pressure-test plans for risk before the team commits.
• Build the factory, not just the product: embed AI and data into how the team works, so everyone ships faster, learns from every release, and stays pointed at impact.

• A track record of leading engineers. 8+ years building software, including leading a team — formally or informally — and growing the engineers around you. This is the core of the role.
• Strong architecture and code review. This is how you lead — you set technical direction and strategy through sound system design and give the kind of code review that makes engineers better, spotting risk and design flaws before they ship.
• Full-stack technical judgment. Deep enough knowledge across mobile, web, and backend to review across the stack and…