Senior Software Engineer (Remote, United Kingdom)
Live Nation Entertainment3 days ago
Remote, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain scalable, performant, secure, and maintainable backend platform services and APIs.
- Collaborate with globally distributed engineering teams to align shared components, standards, and applications across markets.
- Contribute to web, native application, and service-layer architecture; evaluate technical approaches and create spikes and prototypes.
- Own the full software development and deployment lifecycle, including testing, automation, performance, recovery, and technical-debt reduction.
- Evaluate cloud services and infrastructure patterns based on scalability, operational overhead, and cost.
- Debug and triage production issues, participate in on-call rotations, lead incident resolution, and contribute to post-incident reviews.
- Mentor and develop engineers through technical leadership, code reviews, pairing, and knowledge sharing.
- Use AI-assisted development tools appropriately and evaluate their applicability to software solutions.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with ownership of major software components.
- Strong backend development skills and experience designing and implementing clean, scalable, well-structured APIs.
- Experience with Java 21/25 or another JVM language and modern frameworks such as Spring Boot.
- Experience with distributed systems, service-oriented architecture, design patterns, SOLID principles, secure coding, and common vulnerability patterns.
- Experience with AWS or another cloud provider and awareness of cloud scalability, operational complexity, and cost trade-offs.
- Experience with observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, or the ELK stack.
- Experience with CI/CD servers such as GitLab or Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, or another orchestration framework.
- Working knowledge of one or more database products such as Oracle, MySQL, or PostgreSQL.
- Experience with test-driven development, continuous integration, and always-available IT operations.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and their appropriate application.
- Strong communication, collaboration, prioritization, and mentoring skills across remote and multidisciplinary teams.
- Nice-to-have experience includes DevOps, GraphQL, Apollo Studio, Terraform, and Helm.
Benefits
- Permanent, full-time position that is remote within the United Kingdom.
- Travel to London for meetings when required.
- Inclusive environment with support for professional development, career growth, and work-life balance.
- Potential out-of-hours work or rota-based on-call duty due to 24/7 operations.
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About Live Nation Entertainment
Live Nation Entertainment promotes concerts and festivals, manages artists, operates venues, and sells tickets worldwide through Ticketmaster for fans, artists, venues, and teams. Its revenue comes from ticketing fees, concert promotion and venue operations, and brand sponsorships. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Beverly Hills, California, the public company trades on the NYSE and operates divisions including Ticketmaster, Concerts, Media & Sponsorship, and Artist Nation.