Senior Frontend Engineer – Ticketing & Payments (Hybrid)

PlayOn; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental, vision life and disability

Employee Emergency Fund

Stock options

Open PTO policy

401K plan with company match

Hybrid/flexible work environment

Job summary

PlayOn is hiring a Senior Engineer to lead frontend delivery across React web and React Native mobile ticketing experiences. This role is for an engineer who operates with little supervision, owns meaningful product and technical outcomes, and improves team execution through mentorship, engineering quality, and production reliability practices.

We are a growth-stage company focused on high school athletics platforms, delivering fast, reliable experiences for fans and organizers.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience with frontend delivery.
• Strong React and TypeScript expertise and modern frontend architecture.
• Experience delivering mobile product work with React Native.
• A strong grasp of API integration patterns, error handling, and data-validation approaches in production systems.
• Demonstrated ability to own complex initiatives with limited oversight and strong cross-functional communication.
• A testing and reliability mindset, including unit/integration/test coverage.

Responsibilities

• Build the web and mobile flows that bring new kinds of organizers and events onto GoFan, and the checkout and concessions/fundraising experiences that grow revenue per event.
• Own purchase, pass access, and redemption across React web and React Native, including the Box Office app, with an eye toward consistency across platforms.
• Partner with backend teams on API contracts, data correctness, and failure handling in trust-critical paths.
• Strengthen frontend architecture to improve maintainability, delivery speed, and cross-team contribution safety.
• Improve observability for key user journeys with meaningful telemetry, alerts, and post-release verification, and drive testing strategy across unit, integration, and end-to-end layers for high-risk workflows.
• Lead incident triage, production debugging, and root-cause follow-through for customer-impacting issues.
• Use AI-assisted development tools as a core part of your workflow, for code generation, review, testing, and debugging, while owning the correctness and quality of everything you ship.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews, implementation guidance, and hands-on code collaboration, and work closely with product, design, and platform peers to turn roadmap goals into shippable slices.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Frontend architecture

Mentoring engineers

Production reliability

Job description

PlayOn is hiring a Senior Engineer to lead frontend delivery across React web and React Native mobile ticketing experiences. This role is for an engineer who operates with little supervision, owns meaningful product and technical outcomes, and improves team execution through mentorship, engineering quality, and production reliability practices.

We are a growth-stage company focused on high school athletics platforms, delivering fast, reliable experiences for fans and organizers.