Lead Architect, Finance Technology

Location: New York

Seat Geek 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.

The Financial Technology team builds the systems Seat Geek's finance org runs on, and we're in the middle of an ambitious push to fundamentally change how accounting gets done. We're transforming how the entire controller organization operates - accounting, AP, tax, reconciliations, accruals - taking the routine, manual work and handing it to specialized AI agents and automations, so our team can spend their time on judgment instead of toil.

This is a role for someone who knows enough finance to be dangerous and is relentless about automating it. As Lead Architect, you'll hit the ground running on an ambitious backlog of automation work, burn through it, and then take it further - raising the bar for what's possible and transforming how the work itself gets done. More building, more agentic development, less pointing and clicking.

You don't need to be a career software engineer; you'll partner with a strong Finance Technology engineering team on the heaviest builds. What we need is someone who understands the domain deeply enough to see what should be automated, is endlessly curious about how to build it, and learns fast enough to go do it.
What you'll do

• Execute against a well-defined automation roadmap and accelerate it - then push it to the next level, both in what we automate and in how we build it
• Change how the work gets built - move us toward CLI-driven and agentic development and away from manual, point-and-click configuration, raising the technical bar for the whole team along the way
• Build automations and AI agents across accounting, AP, tax, and the close - from inbox triage and invoice coding through reconciliations, flux analysis, accruals, and tax workflows
• Help implement our close-management tooling (e.g. Ledge), including its Net Suite and data warehouse connections and the reliability work that makes an agentic close trustworthy
• Configure and extend Net Suite, Zip, and the integration layer that ties our finance systems together, making sound calls on where logic should live across ERP, integration layer, and code
• Work directly with accountants to understand their workflows, translate that into automation, and earn their trust in the systems you put in front of them
• Make build-or-buy decisions and work with technology vendors, constantly weighing what to build in-house against what to bring in
• Raise the bar for this work through design reviews, monitoring, and pragmatic operational practices - especially around the reliability and auditability that financial systems demand
• Raise the bar for everyone around you - through how you build, code, design reviews and helping interview and grow the people on the team

What you have

• 5+ years of experience
• Dangerous on accounting without being a career accountant - you understand how a controllership runs (accounting, AP, tax, the close) and can spot where the toil is and how to kill it
• Intensely dissatisfied with the status quo - manual, repetitive process genuinely bothers you, and you can't leave it alone. You're the person who automates their own work, then comes for everyone else's
• A fast and fearless learner - you move into unfamiliar tools, systems, and problems quickly and come out the other side dangerous
• Relentless automation and AI curiosity - you stay on top of what AI can do, you've built or experimented with agents and automations yourself, and you have opinions about where it's genuinely useful
• A roll-up-your-sleeves builder's instinct - you'll dig into system config, integration tools, scripting, and agent-building yourself, teaching yourself the parts you weren't trained for rather than waiting for someone else
• Ambitious and opinionated - you bring a strong point of view, push for the better solution, and aren't satisfied with how things are done today
• You're comfortable operating without a playbook - defining the approach, the architecture, and the roadmap simultaneously
• You're able to break down complex technical and financial concepts and explain them…