Engineering Manager

Job Summary:

JOB DESCRIPTION – ENGINEERING MANAGER

Location: Austin, TX

Division: Front Gate Tickets

Line Manager: VP, Engineering

Contract Terms: Full time permanent, 40 hours per week

Front Gate Tickets is North America’s leading software and operations provider for the festival market. We provide technical solutions for e-commerce ticketing, access control, data management, and fan engagement. We partner and run on-site operations for over 200 festivals each year and are on a massive growth trajectory matched by no one in the industry. We do it for the fans!

Front Gate is owned by Live Nation Entertainment and acts as Ticketmaster’s festival arm. We have two offices located in Austin, TX.

THE TEAM

Our development team is responsible for designing and building the technical solutions that make up North America’s premier festival ticketing platform. We are a modestly sized group that takes pride in our ability to deliver timely results across a wide breadth of product offerings. These offerings cover (but are not limited to) ecommerce, box office management, marketing and fulfillment services, and on-site access control. We’re looking for individuals to help us design and build our next generation of industry leading tools and technologies.

THE JOB

Lead multiple groups of engineers in building and supporting best-in-class music festival centric technical solutions.

BENEFITS & PERKS

Our motto is ‘Taking Care of Our Own’ through 6 pillars of benefits:

• HEALTH: Medical, Dental and Vision benefits for you and your family, including Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Health Savings Accounts (HSAs)

• YOURSELF: Paid time off policy including holidays, sick time, and day off for your birthday, free concert tickets

• WEALTH: 401(k) program with company match, Stock Program Reimbursement

• FAMILY: New parent programs & support including caregiver leave and infertility support

• CAREER: Tuition reimbursement, student loan repayment internal growth and development programs & trainings

• OTHERS: Volunteer time off, crowdfunding network

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

• Report to VP of Engineering and serve as a company leader for engineering.

• Collaborate with supervisor in defining engineering strategy and technical roadmap.

• Lead staffing efforts across multiple agile teams – onshore vs. offshore as well as full-time vs. contract.

• Address relevant personnel matters such as resource allocation and performance evaluation.

• Monitor and support skill and career development for direct reports.

• Unite technical leaders in the definition of processes and best practices.

• Serve as an advocate for technical initiatives in the product roadmap planning process.

• Periodically provide valuable individual coding contributions to expedite initiatives.

• Support on-call needs through direct contribution or escalation/rotation management.

OUR TECHNOLOGY STACK

• PHP

• AWS

• Terraform

• Kubernetes

• Datadog

• React

• Gitlab

• Jenkins

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW (or TECHNICAL SKILLS)

• 8+ years related work experience.

• 2+ years of experience in a leadership role.

• Advanced knowledge of:

• application and data architecture

• object oriented programming principles

• prevailing best practices and design patterns

• Expert knowledge of:

• agile methodologies

• cloud infrastructure architecture

• testing methodologies

• version control tools and best practices

• Mastery of one or more scripting languages.

LIFE AT TICKETMASTER

We are proud to be a part of Live Nation Entertainment, the world’s largest live entertainment company.

Our vision at Ticketmaster is to connect people around the world to the live events they love. As the world’s largest ticket marketplace and the leading global provider of enterprise tools and services for the live entertainment business, we are uniquely positioned to successfully deliver on that vision. 

We do it all with an intense passion for Live and an inspiring and diverse culture driven by accessible leaders, attentive managers, and enthusiastic teams. If you’re passionate about live entertainment like we are, and you want to work at a company dedicated to helping millions of fans experience it, we want to hear from you.

Our work is guided by our values:

Reliability - We understand that fans and clients rely on us to power their live event experiences, and we rely on each other to make it happen.

Teamwork - We believe individual achievement pales in comparison to the level of success that can be achieved by a team

Integrity - We are committed to the highest moral and ethical standards on behalf of the countless partners and stakeholders we represent

Belonging - We are committed to building a culture in which all people can be their authentic selves, have an equal voice and opportunities to thrive

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

We are passionate and committed to our people and go beyond the rhetoric of diversity and inclusion. You will be working in an inclusive environment and be encouraged to bring your whole self to work. We will do all that we can to help you successfully balance your work and homelife. As a growing business we will encourage you to develop your professional and personal aspirations, enjoy new experiences, and learn from the talented people you will be working with. It’s talent that matters to us and we encourage applications from people irrespective of their gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability status or caring responsibilities.

Ticketmaster strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of age (40 and over), ancestry, color, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), family and medical care leave or the denial of family and medical care leave, mental or physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), marital status, domestic partner status, medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), genetic information, military and veteran status, political affiliation, national origin (including language use restrictions), citizenship, race, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, and gender expression, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law, rule, ordinance or regulation. 

We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act and consistent with other similar and / or applicable laws in other areas.

We also afford equal employment opportunities to qualified individuals with a disability. For this reason, Ticketmaster will make reasonable accommodations for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified individual with a disability who is an applicant consistent with its legal obligations to do so, including reasonable accommodations related to pregnancy in accordance with applicable local, state and / or federal law. As part of its commitment to make reasonable accommodations, Ticketmaster also wishes to participate in a timely, good faith, interactive process with a disabled applicant to determine effective reasonable accommodations, if any, which can be made in response to a request for accommodations. Applicants are invited to identify reasonable accommodations that can be made to assist them to perform the essential functions of the position they seek. Any applicant who requires an accommodation in order to perform the essential functions of the job should contact a Human Resources Representative to request the opportunity to participate in a timely interactive process. Ticketmaster will also provide reasonable religious accommodations on a case-by-case basis.

HIRING PRACTICES

The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

Ticketmaster recruitment policies are designed to place the most highly qualified persons available in a timely and efficient manner. Ticketmaster may pursue all avenues available, including promotion from within, employee referrals, outside advertising, employment agencies, internet recruiting, job fairs, college recruiting and search firms.

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