Lead Front-End Engineer (Remote, United Kingdom)

Live Nation; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global entertainment company is seeking a Lead Front-End Engineer to join the TM1Pricing team. This role involves designing and developing B2B applications for optimizing ticket prices, mentoring teammates, and collaborating across global teams. Candidates should have strong skills in Angular, React, and TypeScript, as well as a passion for technology and transformation. This position offers a remote work arrangement.

Benefits

Inclusive work environment

Opportunities for professional development

Qualifications

• Several years of software-development experience.
• Proven years working with Agile methodologies.
• Expert front-end development skills in Angular, React, JavaScript, TypeScript.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop a secure, stable application that clients can rely on to optimize pricing.
• Shape architectural decisions to ensure the app is simple, scalable, maintainable, reliable, reusable, and secure.
• Mentor and motivate teammates.

Skills

Angular

React

JavaScript

TypeScript

Strong communication skills

Bilingual (French and English)

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

GitLabCI

Job description

Job Summary: JOB DESCRIPTION - Lead Front-End Engineer

Location: Remote, United Kingdom

Division: Ticketmaster North America -Technology

Contract Type: Permanent, 40 hours per week

The Team

The TM1Pricing team provides tools that help Ticketmaster's diverse customers make faster, better-informed pricing decisions. As an industry leader, TM1Pricing continually redefines price-adjustment standards by innovating to meet client needs.

The Job

As Lead Front-End Engineer on the TM1Pricing team, you'll build a B2B application used by corporate clients and Ticketmaster partners to optimize ticket prices. You'll take an active part in the overall solution design and the architecture of the systems your team supports.

You will design and develop complete components and applications, work autonomously, and draw on your experience and technical expertise to propose new ideas and solutions. You'll build and maintain strong relationships with peers across global teams, using your initiative to solve complex problems and remove obstacles that affect service quality. Iteratively, you'll transform the TM1Pricing app by following current best practices while introducing and championing new ones.

You'll represent the team as a technical expert and work closely with the Product Manager on requirements and planning. A key part of the role is anticipating team needs and adapting proactively. You'll mentor junior colleagues and foster a culture of continuous improvement. You will also help align multiple teams with different time zones on the technical solutions. Working in a DevOps/Agile environment, you'll handle end-to-end delivery of new features-including testing and production support-across multiple projects and technologies.

What You Will Be Doing

• Design and develop a secure, stable application that clients can rely on to optimize pricing.
• Shape architectural decisions to ensure the app is simple, scalable, maintainable, reliable, reusable, and secure.
• Plan stories and iterations to meet product goals and execute the roadmap.
• Be accountable for your team's performance.
• Mentor and motivate teammates.
• Support external teams integrating with your services and document best practices.
• Build required micro-front-ends with Angular, React, and TypeScript.
• Develop and deploy services on AWS and Kubernetes.
• Maintain high quality standards.
• Collaborate with product and UX managers on feature development.
• Define and execute a strategy to maintain and modernize legacy components and services.
• Automate testing, deployment, resilience, and application monitoring.
• Coordinate team activities to maximize performance.
• Cultivate relationships with internal and external partners.
• Document support procedures for your systems and train colleagues on them.
• Participate in the production-support rotation.

What You Need to Know (Technical Skills)

• Several years of software-development experience.
• Proven years working with Agile methodologies.
• Several years of front-end development.
• Proven years of DevOps experience.
• Expert front-end development skills (Angular, React, JavaScript, TypeScript).
• Proven experience building shared services and APIs.
• Demonstrated application of SOLID principles and design patterns.
• Experience with distributed applications (microservices, event-driven architecture).
• Familiarity with micro-frontend architecture.
• Track record of mentoring colleagues.
• Experience supporting and improving legacy systems.
• Real-time and end-to-end monitoring of production reliability and performance.
• Knowledge of Java, SpringBoot, Maven, and GitLabCI is a plus.
• Experience with at least one database (DynamoDB, Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB, etc.).
• Experience with Elasticsearch.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate closely with remote team members.
• Bilingual: French and English.

You (Behavioural Skills)

• Self-directed and proactive.
• Passionate about technology and transformation.
• Motivated, energetic, and persistent.
• Comfortable working in cross-functional, multidisciplinary teams.
• Driven by the challenge of solving difficult technical problems.
• Always looking for ways to improve your team.

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 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 OPPORTUNITIES

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 home life. 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.

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