Lead Software Engineer (Remote, United Kingdom)
Live Nation Entertainment3 days ago
Remote, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design and develop new systems and enhancements for high-traffic full-stack applications, including front-end interfaces, web and API services, data models, data flows, and deployment infrastructure.
- Work with product and engineering teams to gather requirements, create solution designs and documentation, evaluate technologies, and make decisions involving cost, capacity, scalability, and maintainability.
- Build and maintain monitoring, alerting, performance-metrics, automated build, and deployment systems.
- Ensure high-quality engineering practices covering testing, enterprise standards, high availability, scalability, low latency, and fault tolerance.
- Create system documentation, onboarding materials, runbooks, troubleshooting guidance, and recommendations for future improvements.
- Lead technical discussions, mentor and guide team members, review code, and shape technical standards and reusable engineering patterns across teams.
- Own day-to-day project delivery, including stand-ups, blocker escalation, stakeholder communication, timelines, and project goals.
- Support live applications, including debugging production issues and participating in on-call support.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- Proficiency in one or more of Java, TypeScript, and Node.js, with willingness to learn the others.
- Proven experience building high-traffic web applications and deploying them to production with a focus on quality and long-term maintainability.
- Experience with cloud-based platforms, preferably AWS.
- Experience supporting live applications, including reading logs and dashboards such as Grafana and AWS CloudWatch and resolving issues efficiently.
- Experience writing SQL queries and working with SQL databases such as MySQL and NoSQL databases such as DynamoDB.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and deployment tools including Terraform, Kubernetes, and Helm.
- Experience with code and build tools including GitLab, CI/CD, Jenkins, and Sonar.
- Experience working in Agile teams and delivering work in time-boxed settings.
- Ability to handle production issues and on-call support, communicate clearly, document systems, manage time, estimate work, and collaborate with technical and product teams.
- Experience running teams on a day-to-day basis without people-management responsibility.
- Preferred qualifications include UI design and client-facing data application experience, entertainment or online ticketing experience, experience across diverse cultural and regulatory environments, and familiarity with using Claude or similar AI tools in the software development lifecycle.
Benefits
- Permanent, full-time contract at 40 hours per week.
- Remote work within the United Kingdom, with travel to London for meetings when required.
- Inclusive culture with professional and personal development opportunities, accessible leaders, supportive managers, and diverse teams.
- Ticketmaster and Live Nation employee environment focused on live entertainment, belonging, teamwork, integrity, and reliability.
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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.