Engineering Manager, Core Engineering

SeatGeek; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

SeatGeek’s Core Engineering team is seeking a manager to lead one or more senior engineer teams, shaping roadmaps and ensuring operational excellence. You will review code, guide architecture, and participate in recruiting while providing performance feedback.

Collaboration with product and design is essential to align technical decisions with business goals. You’ll foster an inclusive, high-performing environment and help translate complex technical concepts for a broad set of stakeholders

Qualifications

• Built and led lean teams delivering impactful results.
• Foster inclusive environments where engineers can excel.
• Shape and drive complex, user-focused roadmaps in a fast-paced setting.
• Explain technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
• Lead with context and collaborate across product, design, and leadership.
• Experience with tooling across our tech stack and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of strong senior engineers.
• Own a transversal core engineering domain and maintain operational excellence.
• Conduct code and architecture reviews and provide design feedback.
• Participate in recruiting to grow the engineering team.
• Provide regular performance feedback and career development support.
• Collaborate with product and design to align vision with goals.
• Make build vs. buy decisions with the team and communicate outcomes.

Skills

Team management

People leadership

Roadmap planning

Communication

Recruiting

Tools

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

Job description

SeatGeek believes live events are powerful experiences that unite humans. With our technological savvy and fan-first attitude we’re simplifying and modernizing the ticketing industry.

The Core Engineering department owns the infrastructure and networking that powers SeatGeek.com along with transversal capabilities in our stack ranging from application frameworks, developer experience to security and resilience.

As manager, you’ll lead one or more teams in core engineering, guiding the team as they transform a strong technical foundation into a resilient, user-focused product. Your role will be key in shaping the team’s roadmap, enhancing the developer experience, and driving faster, more reliable delivery across the company.

What you'll do

• Manage a team of strong senior engineers
• Own a transversal core engineering domain maintaining a high standard of operational excellence and driving tactical and strategic vision for this domain
• Code and architecture reviews, and provide technical and design feedback to the team
• Play an active role in our recruiting process, helping us grow our engineering team in any way you can
• Provide regular job performance feedback, hold one-on-ones, and provide career development support to your direct reports
• Work with your Technical and Product counterparts to form a compelling vision and direction for the team that aligns with organizational and business goals
• Select new and work with existing technology vendors when necessary. You constantly make build or buy decisions together with your team
• Communicate technical and product decisions to the right people, resolve blocking issues, and collaborate with other leaders across the organization

What you have

• You’ve successfully built and led lean teams, ensuring they’re productive, motivated, and capable of delivering impactful results
• You’re able to foster safe, collaborative inclusive environments, where engineers feel empowered to do their best work
• You’re great at shaping and driving complex, user-focused roadmaps, and keeping your team focused in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• You're able to break down complex technical concepts and explain them clearly to non-technical audiences, accurately representing the team's work to a wide range of stakeholders
• Knowledge of the technology industry to help your team make good tooling and framework decisions to set them up for success
• You understand how to lead by setting context, facilitating collaboration, and getting buy-in between cross functional partners in product, design, engineering and leadership
• You’ve worked as an Engineer in the past, are familiar with the challenges of that role, and preferably have had hands‑on experience with the following:
• Tooling across our tech stack
• Building out highly available and distributed systems, especially in regards to container orchestration systems

Our stack

Experience with every technology listed isn’t expected, we’ve included them for transparency. What matters most to