As our Senior Backend / API Engineer (d/f/m) your responsibilities will include:
- Designing, developing, and maintaining scalable backend APIs and services that power core business functionality across our platform
- Leading the conceptualization and integration of APIs across multiple domains, ensuring consistency, performance, and long-term maintainability
- Driving continuous improvement of our engineering processes, helping the team deliver quickly and at a high standard
- Evaluating and adopting new technologies, bringing pragmatic innovation to the platform where it adds value
- Writing modular, reliable, and testable code, and uphold high standards of code quality, readability, and architecture
- Partnering closely with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to ship impactful features and improvements
- Mentoring junior engineers by sharing your knowledge and guiding them toward best practices in backend and API development
What you will need to succeed in this role:
- resilience and the ability to take ownership and go the extra mile when needed
- 3+ years of experience in in modern JavaScript (ES2015+) environments, TypeScript is a plus
- passion about API design and backend architecture, and enjoy building services that scale
- strong opinions and experience with code quality, modular architecture, and modern engineering standards
- a solid understanding of distributed systems and experience building high-availability backend applications
- being familiar with NoSQL databases, message queues (e.g. RabbitMQ, Kafka), and scalable infrastructure patterns
- being comfortable evaluating trade-offs and making architectural decisions that serve the long-term goals of the platform
- a growth mindset and the desire to learn new technologies, and contribute to a high-performance engineering culture
Our Stack consists of...
- microservices running in a container orchestrated cloud-agnostic infrastructure
- TypeScript and Node.js in the backend with a continuously increasing share of Golang
Top Skills
What We Do
Hundreds of thousands of sellers around the globe rely on primary ticketing solutions that haven’t kept up with their needs and expectations. Platforms from the 90s that still feel like we are in the 90s made the jobs of ticket managers worldwide constant miseries.
Now there is a better way — customer-centric ticketing! vivenu is a primary ticketing provider that helps event organizers manage, market, and analyze ticket sales from one unified platform.
Our mission is to build a ticketing platform that puts ticket sellers first – so they’re empowered to create experiences that people love. We empower organizers to be more efficient, absolutely independent, and fully connected – to say the very least.
vivenu is the exclusive ticketing solution for the Grammy Awards, the Special Olympics, FC Schalke 04, Qatar Creates, and many many more. With $65 million in funding from renowned global investors, we’ve set out to revolutionize event ticketing – now and forever.
Pumped enough? We are not just another company and we are not looking for people who seek just another job. Ready for personal growth? Join us.
Why Work With Us
Join us to shape the future of live entertainment with purpose and variety. Whether you’re refining innovative product features, creating memorable fan experiences, closing strategic partnerships, or driving customer success — every step at vivenu impacts hundreds of clients and thousands of fans daily. Here, your work truly matters.
