Platform Software Engineer – Ticketfly – San Francisco (SoMa)

Ticketfly is the fastest-growing, independent ticketing and social marketing platform with an analytics bent. With the merger of Ticketmaster and Live Nation, independent venues and promoters across the country are looking elsewhere for event ticketing and social marketing services. Enter Ticketfly. We’ve signed up 175+ of the leading music venues and promoters and are on track to sell over 2.5 million tickets this year. Of course, what follows this growth and success is continued innovation and scaling of our technology. We’re looking for experienced engineers that have a passion for building large scale web technology and are excited at the opportunity to shake up the live music industry. Ticketfly was founded in 2008 by industry veterans Dan Teree and Andrew Dreskin who previously started TicketWeb, which sold the first online ticket in 1995 and was later acquired by Ticketmaster for $35M in 2000. For more info on Ticketfly, including recent news coverage, check out www.ticketfly.com and www.ticketfly.com/about/press.

The Opportunity:

We are seeking outstanding Software Engineers to help build and scale Ticketfly’s core services and infrastructure. Dealing with traffic spikes and load that anywhere else would be considered a denial of service attack is just another day for us. You should be excited by this sort of challenge and building the services and systems that can deal with it. You should love being part of a team and be able to be an example to junior developers in the code you write and knowledge you bring.

Responsibilities:

-Design and implement mission critical, distributed back-end services in Java and Scala
-Optimize and refactor existing services to allow Ticketfly to scale to new heights
-Work closely with team members and help improve our development process with code reviews
-Make sure Ticketfly retains its reputation as the most reliable, best performing ticketing platform in the universe.

Required:

-Experience writing concurrent code on the JVM
-Understanding of how distributed services and systems are built and monitored
-Good understanding of web technologies, network protocols and Linux
-Ability to clearly express your ideas orally and in writing
-Thrive in a fun, fast-paced start-up environment

Pluses:

-Scala & Akka
-Knowledge of Graph and Set theory
-Algorithm design and analysis
-Previous experience scaling a system to handle extreme bursts of traffic
-Active member/contributor of user groups or open source projects
-Love music

If interested in this role, please send your resume to jobs@ticketfly.com.