Software Engineer - API Services

Tickets.com, an MLB company, delivers innovative, cutting-edge technologies to enable frictionless and unforgettable fan experiences in venues across the globe. Together with MLB, Tickets.com is changing the landscape of the live sports and entertainment industry, delivering new digital venue and ticketing experiences to millions of fans. Our Technology team builds platforms and products that provide a new smart ticketing solution and venue experience. Using cutting-edge technology, our platform and applications are consumed by fans, stadiums, and MLB teams.

We are assembling a world-class team to build on these experiences and to scale platforms and products that anticipate emerging opportunities, including dynamic pricing and offers and digital, contactless ticketing. Our mission is to provide premium, innovative live experiences for our clients and their patrons.

Tickets.com is looking for a Software Engineer  passionate about building engaging products for our fans. 

The Opportunity: We are looking for a motivated and experienced software engineer to develop and implement the next generation of our cloud-based application platform. This is a hands-on role, solving challenging problems using state-of-the-art technology. Our goal is to provide a scalable application platform to drive the business of baseball and our clients’ businesses. You will partner with Principal/Lead/Sr Software Engineers, business stakeholders, and product management to architect and build scaled, low-latency micro-services-driven cloud-based systems that integrate with mobile applications, web clients, and third-party platforms. The ideal candidate will be a tenacious and creative problem solver with the ability to prototype solutions quickly.

Essential Job Functions:

• Ability to work both independently with little/reasonable supervision and in a team environment.
• Work within a strongly test-driven development structure
• Must be articulate and communicate effectively, both in written and oral formats 
• Help introduce new technologies to engineering team, taking part in training, adoption, and execution of new platforms.
• Exercise troubleshooting and problem-solving skills 
• Excellent attention to detail and organization skills
• Ability to maintain and meet schedules. 
• Eager to learn new technologies and platforms.

Requirements:

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering or Computer Science (or equivalent) is required.
• At least four (4) years of web application development experience with hands-on coding
  • Development experience with HTTP, JSON, Rest. GraphQL a plus
  • Experience with distributed and microservice applications & solutions.
  • Experience building large-scale cloud-based services.
• Strong working knowledge of Agile process, CI/CD & build automation tools and SRE best-practices.
• Experience with GIT is required.

Key technical domains:

• Programing language & framework: Kotlin/Java with Spring
• Database: large-scale implementation and utilization of NoSQL & SQL solutions including PostgreSQL
• Containers/Orchestrators, such as Docker, Kubernetes
• Extensive knowledge working with cloud-based infrastructure. Experience with GCP, API gateway such as Apigee, and server-less architecture using Google Cloud Functions is a plus.

Salary Range is $110-140K

We offer an Outstanding Benefits Package that includes:

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• STD & LTD
• 401K Retirement Plan
• Basic Life & AD&D
• Supplemental Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off (PTO, STO, Holidays including Year-End Holiday Break)
• HSA & FSA
• Legal Plan
• Pet Insurance
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Flexible Hybrid Work Environment
• MLB Tickets

Tickets.com is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Please click here to view our CCPA.