Senior Web Engineer

As a Senior Software Engineer (Web), you will build and support systems responsible for the acquisition of multi-million dollar monthly revenue. You will work on the latest technology stack and make decisions which will directly impact the final product. Following software development best practices, you’ll be responsible for developing solutions that scale to the needs of our customers.  

How your role contributes to the success of Vegas.com & Vivid Seats:    

• Help lead direction of the technology systems powering our ticket marketplace and other Vegas.com offerings.   

• Develop experiments and innovative solutions that give Vivid Seats a competitive advantage, encourage team members, and champion technology improvements for your team.  

• Work cross-functionally with other development teams and business stakeholders to deliver impact iteratively.  

• 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.   

• Collaborate to develop and maintain best practices across the software development lifecycle.  

• Mentor other engineers through pairing, code reviews, and tech talks. 

How your role expectations will progress as a Senior Software Engineer in the first 30, 90, and 180 days:    
   
30 days in   

• 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.    

• Deploy and make changes to our production systems.  

90 days in   

• Contribute to our processes, methods, or technologies to support overall business goals and drive team efficiencies.    

• Maintain, harvest and aid internal and external relationships to achieve progress and advance objectives.   

• Contribute to team planning, estimations, and design sessions.   

• Apply a solid understanding of our business goals and our system architecture to your everyday decision making.  

• Leverage a mindset of continuous experimentation to help with team efficiency.  

• Work with cross-functional stakeholders to decompose and iteratively deliver business objectives.  

• Produce and deliver clean, quality code that drives team and company tech goals forward.  

180 days in   

• Leverage application observability tools to know about problems before our users.  

• Have self-sufficiency in all applications touched by the team.     

• Proactively engage in continuous learning in order to advance skill sets necessary for team goals.  

• Identify areas of opportunity within our systems, come up with a plan to improve them, ship them, and share results and impact.  

• Own a career growth plan developed in partnership with your manager, and work towards it.  

 What You’ll Bring:    

• 4+ years professional experience building and supporting production web applications.  

• Strong knowledge of front-end languages (we use TypeScript, React, and Next.js)   

• Experience in designing, building, and testing modern web or cross-platform mobile solutions as part of an agile or cross-functional team.  

• Experience with client-side application state libraries (ex. Redux, Zustand)  

• Experience with front-end testing frameworks (ex. Jest, Mocha, Enzyme, etc.)   

• Strong written and interpersonal communication skills to document and share team best practices across the department.  

• Exposure to design systems, a/b testing, and backend technologies such as Node.js and Java 

• A proactive mindset toward embracing, experimenting, and integrating AI tools to drive efficiency, elevate your work, and contribute to a culture of innovation. 

Location: Las Vegas, NV

We believe in a hybrid working model which provides employees the flexibility to take advantage of in-person and remote collaboration. 

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