Software Engineer II (React - Frontend)

THE CHALLENGE

Eventbrite is a people-first organization. Our goal of building the global platform for live experience relies on the foundation of top talent and strong company culture. Our team is the face of Eventbrite and we’re charged with finding attracting and bringing on the best of the best to drive Eventbrite’s growing business and award-winning culture forward. Hiring the best talent globally is no easy feat. However we have a talented team who has an inspiring story and mission. Our perfect candidate is someone who can connect that vision and story with top-notch talent.

THE TEAM

We're a people-focused Engineering organization:  the women and men on our team value working together in small teams to solve big problems supporting an active culture of mentorship and inclusion and committing themselves to learn new things daily. Pair programming weekly demos tech talks and quarterly hackathons are at the core of how we’ve built our team and product. We believe in engaging with the community regularly hosting free events with some of the top technical speakers and actively contributing to open source software. Our technology spans across web mobile API big data machine learning search physical point of sale and scanning systems.

THE ROLE

You’ll shape and automate the organization and aggregation of our existing data and gather data from new sources. You’ll collaborate closely with engineering and our product teams to pull the data that informs product decisions. You will own the flow of data from our product to internal data consumers and contribute to long-term plans for optimizing analytics and decision-making.

YOU WILL

• Eventbrite’s primary tech stack is Python React Django and MySQL all running on AWS and this is the main sandbox we play in. However because this team interfaces with many other teams there’s potential for many other pieces of our broader tech stack (Redis Cassandra Kafka ElasticSearch etc). We are also moving toward a micro-service architecture and using a variety of newer technologies like gRPC.

• You will have the opportunity to integrate with Eventbrite’s core systems and interfaces which are built with Django on the backend and React and Redux on the frontend. We are hosted entirely on AWS with MySQL and PostgreSQL as the standard database technologies.

THE SKILLSET

• Experience working with HTML CSS Javascript. Modern frontend frameworks: React Backbone/Marionette etc

• Good to have - Native Mobile experience

• 3-5 years of Software Engineering experience.

• Experience using a SQL database: MySQL PostgreSQL etc

• You have experience designing and developing APIs both internal service and HTTP APIs

• Efficient practical programmer with a record of producing maintainable code.

• Ability to take initiative and produce results with great communication and collaboration skills - we put a lot of emphasis on being team players

• You are an effective communicator who enjoys mentoring junior engineers and learning from more senior engineers.

• You have experience designing architecting building and maintaining software applications at scale

BONUS POINTS FOR

• Experience using non-relational databases like Elasticsearch and Redis

• Comfortable developing in a container environment like Docker

• Familiarity with continuous integration tools like Jenkins or CircleCI

• Experience being on a scrum team and/or is a scrum master

• Active Eventbrite user with a passion for live events