Backend Software Engineer II

THE CHALLENGE

Eventbrite is the world’s largest self-service ticketing platform. We build the technology to allow anyone to create share promote find and attend events that fuel their passions and enrich their lives. The Drive Demand pillar is growing in order to accelerate our ability to deliver a world-class marketing solution to our creators. Our goal is to build a solution that allows us to connect creators and event attendees in new and delightful ways.

THE TEAM

The Marketing Tools team operates in the Drive Demand pillar and builds Eventbrite’s powerful promotional tools to connect creators with their existing fans reach new consumer audiences and sell tickets to ensure every event becomes a resounding success. The team is responsible for the UI and backend that supports the creation and management of marketing tools. Features include but are not limited to email campaigns share on social suite paid social ads mailchimp integration and reminder emails. By joining us you can enable the team to bring marketing tools to the next level while collaborating with other engineers in multiple product teams across the pillar.

Our engineering teams own their services and systems end to end from requirements gathering to testing to deployment to maintenance. Team members follow an on-call rotation to ensure any issues are mitigated immediately and root causes are rectified.

THE ROLE

As a Backend Software Engineer II you will extend the underlying framework and APIs for the marketing tools ecosystem and contribute to building  beautiful responsive delightful and intuitive user interfaces that people who create email campaigns and promotional tools are excited to use. You will collaborate with product design and front-end engineers to formulate and implement solutions to various needs and requirements. You will solve challenging technical problems and own your impactful features across the full stack while guiding junior engineers and influencing engineering leaders.

This role will be instrumental in making the Eventbrite experience a great one for our event creators and customers. This is more than an opportunity to join an amazing fast-moving team it is a chance to impact Eventbrite’s creator platform and organization at scale advance your career and grow others on the team.

THE TECH STACK

The Marketing Tools team uses Node.js Typescript Python and we make extensive use of AWS including Lambda S3 and DynamoDB. On the frontend we use React and Typescript for rapid iterative development.

THE SKILLSET

• A result driven self starter with great communication and collaboration skills who enjoys learning and helping their teammates grow

• 3 years experience building customer-facing software applications

• Strong experience with high-level languages specifically Python

• Practical experience working with HTML CSS JavaScript/TypeScript. Modern frontend frameworks like React

• Unit-testing know-how required experience with TDD or BDD is an added bonus

• You have experience designing and developing Web APIs

• Experience with AWS or Google Cloud Services

• Experience with MySQL Aurora or other RDBMS (NoSQL is a plus)

• You care about making sure your code is maintainable and well tested

• You work with teams that are continuously delivering and automating processes you are excited about working in a world class SDLC environment

BONUS POINTS FOR

• A/B Testing knowledge and/or experience

• Active Eventbrite user with a passion for live events

• Experience with DynamoDB or Snowflake

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code such as AWS CDK or Terraform