Software Engineer II (Web)

Who we are: Founded in 2001, Vivid Seats (NASDAQ: SEAT) is a leading online ticket marketplace committed to becoming the ultimate partner for connecting fans to the live events, artists, and teams they love. We believe in the power of experiences and are fiercely dedicated to building products that inspire human connections. Named as one of Built In's top places to work in 2025, we believe that our People are our greatest competitive advantage. To support our People, we have built a company culture that empowers our employees to embrace challenges, encourages unity through collaboration, and seeks to constantly evolve by leveraging data and inspiring innovation.

We believe in harnessing emerging technology to power performance and unlock creativity. As part of our culture of innovation, we actively embrace the use of AI tools to enhance decision-making, improve workflows, and product better outcomes for our customers.

The Opportunity: 

As a Software Engineer II, you will build and support systems responsible for the acquisition of multi-million dollar monthly revenue. You will work on the latest front-end technology stack and make decisions which will directly impact the final product. Following front-end 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 Vivid Seats:   

• Help guide direction of the front-end systems powering our ticket marketplace, and Vegas.com.  

• 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. 

• Participate in pairing, code reviews, and tech talks. 

How your role expectations will progress as a 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.<