Senior Software Engineer, Frontend

ABOUT VICTORY LIVE
Victory Live is a private equity backed technology company aimed at maximizing distribution and yield for live event ticket inventory. We provide an end-to-end software platform for the live ticketing industry managing thousands of sports theater and live music event tickets on behalf of artists promoters teams venues and professional resellers. Victory Lives comprehensive offerings include an established B2B marketplace along with both a full-service and an automated SaaS platform to handle all elements of the ticket sales lifecycle from ingestion to sales fulfillment.

THE POSITION
Victory Live is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in an Engineering Lead role to provide hands-on technical leadership for our consumer-facing ticketing products. These products include white-label web storefronts checkout experiences and mobile applications that connect fans with live-event inventory through Victory Lives broader ticketing platform.

This role is for an experienced engineer who can set technical direction contribute directly to the codebase and create the clarity a distributed team needs to deliver effectively. The B2C Engineering Lead will partner closely with Product Design and Engineering Leadership to translate customer and business priorities into reliable software improve engineering execution and evolve the platform without losing sight of the consumer experience.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Own technical execution for Victory Lives B2C platform across consumer web checkout mobile and supporting backend services
• Lead the design and implementation of complex or high-impact initiatives while contributing directly to production code
• Establish clear technical direction decompose product goals into executable engineering plans and surface tradeoffs dependencies and delivery risks early
• Strengthen engineering execution across a distributed team through thoughtful planning estimation code review release readiness and follow-through
• Partner with Product and Design to improve the full consumer journey including discovery page performance account experiences checkout payments and post-purchase fulfillment
• Own production quality for the B2C platform through observability incident response root-cause analysis and continuous reliability improvements
• Improve platform scalability and resilience for concentrated high-demand on-sales and other revenue-critical traffic events
• Participate in on-call triage and assessment when needed
• Guide the evolution of a multi-tenant white-label platform balancing shared capabilities with the needs of affiliates brands and end consumers
• Coordinate effectively across internal platform teams contractors and external development partners with clear technical boundaries and accountability
• Help other engineers grow through code reviews design discussions pairing and knowledge sharing; raise the teams ability to make sound technical decisions independently
• Strengthen engineering standards for architecture testing security documentation deployment and operational ownership

REQUIREMENTS

• 7 years of professional software engineering experience including experience leading technical delivery for a team or major product area
• Strong hands-on experience with modern TypeScript and JavaScript application development including:
  • React and
  • backend or serverless services
  • React Native and Expo or comparable mobile application experience
  • Integration with Rails/Python backends
  • SQL and relational databases such as PostgreSQL
• Experience designing operating and evolving consumer-facing systems in a production environment
• Experience with cloud-native delivery platforms such as AWS and Vercel along with containerized or serverless workloads
• Strong understanding of API design distributed systems authentication caching asynchronous workflows and third-party integrations
• Strong foundation with the pillars of observability (logging metrics tracing) alerting incident response tools such as Datadog Sentry or comparable monitoring and logging platforms
• Strong foundation in comprehensive testing unit integration and end-to-end testing test-driven development.
• Proven ability to own systems end to endfrom architecture and implementation through deployment production support and continuous improvement
• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence create clarity in ambiguous situations and help distributed engineers work effectively as a team
• Strong product judgment and empathy for end users with the ability to connect technical decisions to performance reliability conversion and customer trust
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including the ability to explain technical tradeoffs to product and business partners
• Experience with e-commerce checkout payments marketplaces ticketing or multi-tenant SaaS platforms is a plus

• Quality of life. Sustainable processes over heroics. We build resilient teams and systems share ownership and avoid creating single points of failure.
• Quality of code. Clarity over cleverness. If a teammate needs a long explanation to follow your code it needs simplifying. Tests prove your work; they arent optional.
• Protection of production. Every change is reviewed tested and observable. We build with monitoring in mind from day one so we find problems before our users do.
• Shared knowledge. We work across time zones so we communicate in the open. Questions go in channels not DMs and one answer becomes shared knowledge.
  

BENEFITS & PERKS

• Comprehensive medical coverage
• 100% employer-paid dental vision life and disability insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid parental leave
• Paid time off and company holidays
• Employee wellness and professional development opportunities

Victory Live is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race color ethnicity ancestry religion creed sex national origin sexual orientation age citizenship status marital status disability gender identity gender expression Veteran status or any other characteristic protected by state local or federal law.