Senior Backend Engineer - Global Ticketing & Scale (Hybrid)

AXS; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid holidays, vacation, and sick time

Parental leave and wellness programs

Job summary

AXS, a leader in live entertainment ticketing, is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to help power the LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games. You will own backend systems, design distributed services, and ensure reliability under extreme traffic, 10x-100x spikes, and bot activity.

Join a team that values architecture, performance, and collaboration with product and business stakeholders. Experience with C#/.NET, distributed systems, cloud (AWS), and mentoring engineers is preferred; strong ownership

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience building and operating distributed systems at scale.
• Strong understanding of concurrency, fault tolerance, and system design trade-offs.
• Experience with relational databases and data modeling.
• Familiarity with cloud-native patterns and IaC.

Responsibilities

• Own the design, build, and operation of backend systems powering global ticketing, including LA28.
• Design distributed systems that handle high-concurrency traffic and spikes.
• Drive architectural decisions across services, balancing scalability, latency, cost, and reliability.
• Build and evolve API-driven services used by internal systems and external partners at scale.
• Analyze and optimize system performance using load testing and telemetry.
• Lead design reviews and mentor engineers to improve engineering standards.

Skills

C# / .NET

Distributed systems

AWS

Concurrency

APIs

Mentoring

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Docker

Terraform

SQL Server

PostgreSQL

Job description

AXS, a leader in live entertainment ticketing, is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to help power the LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games. You will own backend systems, design distributed services, and ensure reliability under extreme traffic, 10x-100x spikes, and bot activity.

Join a team that values architecture, performance, and collaboration with product and business stakeholders. Experience with C#/.NET, distributed systems, cloud (AWS), and mentoring engineers is preferred; strong ownership