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Full Stack Engineer III

Posted 17 Days Ago
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Hybrid
Chicago, IL
125K-150K
Senior level
Easy Apply
Hybrid
Chicago, IL
125K-150K
Senior level
As a Full Stack Engineer III, you'll enhance our ticket platform by developing new features, collaborating with teams, and mentoring engineers while ensuring product quality.
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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.

The Opportunity:    

As a Full Stack Software Engineer III, you’ll make highly visible enhancements to our platform by maintaining and building new features across our stack. This includes TypeScript and Java. 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. Following development best practices, you’ll be responsible for developing solutions that scale to the needs of our customers and partners. 

How your role contributes to the success of Vivid Seats: 

  • Help guide the direction of the design and development of the systems powering our B2C Marketplace and Distribution products. 
  • Develop innovative solutions that give Vivid Seats a competitive advantage, encourage team members, and champion technology improvements for your delivery 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. 
  • Uphold standards for development and product quality and participate in the team’s on-call rotation 
  • Mentor other engineers through pairing, code reviews, and tech talks. 

How your role expectations will progress as a Sr Full Stack 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 everday decision making. 
  • Leverage a mindset of continuous experimentation to help with team efficiency. 
  • Work with cross-functional stakeholder sto decompose and iteratively deliver business objectives. 
  • Prouce 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. 
  • Experience with modern front-end technologies such as TypeScript, Next.js, React and their interactions with APIs. 
  • Experience developing Web-based, Distributed and Multi-Tier architecture using Java/J2EE or other major platforms (Python, Scala, Clojure, etc.) 
  • Experience designing, building, and testing web services and APIs. 
  • Strong written and interpersonal communication skills to document and share team best practices across the department. 
  • Preferred knowledge of Service Oriented Architecture, PCI, and SQL. 
  • Strong written and interpersonal communication skills to document and share team best practices across the department. 

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

 

https://corporate.vividseats.com/careers/

Location: Chicago, IL  

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.

 

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Our Commitment: 
We are an equal opportunity employer that values the critical importance of a diverse workforce and sense of belonging. Many of our roles have flexible requirements and we encourage you to apply regardless of whether you meet every qualification. 
 

Top Skills

Clojure
Java
Java/J2Ee
Next.Js
Python
React
Scala
SQL
Typescript
HQ

Vivid Seats Chicago, Illinois, USA Office

Located in the landmark Marshall Fields building, Vivid Seats brand new HQ incorporates modern design, collaborative spaces, and the excitement of live events to create an innovative workplace. We are centrally located near public transportation hubs, shops, restaurants and entertainment venues.

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