Software Engineer
Vivid Seatsabout 7 hours ago
Toronto, Canada or Chicago, IL, USAMid Level / Senior
H1B Sponsor
Base Salary
$100k - $125k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the direction of technology systems for ticket marketplace offerings.
- Develop experiments and innovative solutions to gain a competitive advantage.
- Collaborate with other development teams and business stakeholders.
- Create algorithms and features to maximize value and efficiency.
- Maintain best practices across the software development lifecycle.
- Mentor other engineers through pairing, code reviews, and tech talks.
Requirements
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, preferably in backend or distributed systems.
- Strong Java experience; Spring Boot experience is highly preferred.
- Experience building REST APIs, event-driven services, or asynchronous consumers/producers.
- Familiarity with relational databases and data-access patterns; MyBatis experience is a plus.
- Experience with automated testing, integration testing, CI/CD, and production debugging.
- Comfort working with payment, ordering, accounting, tax, fraud, or customer-service systems.
- Ability to reason about correctness, idempotency, failure handling, retries, reconciliation, and auditability in transaction-heavy systems.
- Strong written and interpersonal communication skills.
- Exposure to design systems and A/B testing.
- A proactive mindset toward embracing and integrating AI tools.
Benefits
- Annual bonus incentives.
- FLEX PTO and mental health days.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- 401K matching.
- Monthly credits and discounts for attending live events.
- Hybrid working model with flexibility for remote collaboration.
Tech Stack
JavaSpring Boot