Staff Software Engineer, Front End - Infra

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 focused on frontend developer experience and architecture. Our ideal candidate is someone that is willing to work on deep problems and can also explain and help others learn and adopt solutions.

THE TEAM

We work on foundational aspects key to making our frontend teams successful. We are responsible for the efficiency of the software development lifecycle for our frontend applications. This includes proposing and building new application architecture and building tooling to create a more pleasant developer experience. 

THE ROLE

You will work to plan and execute on a path to continuous improvement of our frontend development experience. We will work together to build tooling to improve efficiencies within the development lifecycle. You will be a part of improving our frontend frameworks and infrastructure to increase performance and autonomy of our frontend teams. You’ll work closely with other teams to help train/mentor them, garner adoption, and improve our platform and product. 

THE TECH STACK

Eventbrite is built using React on top of a Django/Python API layer with our data stored in MySQL hosted on the AWS ecosystem. The Frontend Infrastructure focuses on the JavaScript and React areas of the code base. To do so, we leverage the power of ESLint, webpack, Babel, TypeScript, and Node.js. 

THE SKILL SET

• You have experience working in rapid product development building responsive web pages using a combination of HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript with recent experience in ES6
• You have experience working with React
• You have experience with state management frameworks like Redux
• You can lead and influence architectural designs
• You are a pragmatic programmer that understands how to balance quality, time to ship, and cost
• You understand build vs. buy tradeoffs
• You can improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
• You have a deep understanding of cross-browser compatibility pitfalls and how to work around them
• You have a great track record of working closely with design teams to build beautiful and intuitive web pages and applications
• You enjoy mentoring and teaching colleagues at all levels, while also learning from themYou have a holistic approach to quality

BONUS POINTS

• You have previous experience working with a large engineering team on a complex web application
• You have previous experience with build tools (webpack, Parcel, rollup, etc.)
• You have experience with React frameworks (Next.js, Gatsby, etc.)
• You have experience with strongly typed JavaScript (Typescript, flow, etc)You have experience with working in container environments (Docker, Noman, Kubernetes)
• You have experience with continuous integration tooling (CircleCI, Jenkins, TravisCI, etc)
• You have experience with cloud services (AWS, Google Cloud, Heroku, Netlify, etc)

WHAT WE OFFER

At Eventbrite, we strive to support our Britelings and their loved ones through different stages of life with robust and attractive benefits, financial and physical wellness options, and great perks.

In addition to offering a competitive salary and company stock, we have other great benefits available. In the Briteland, you’ll find great medical plans, fertility and adoption benefits, wellness reimbursement, generous parental leave, on-site services, and much more.

We care about your mental health and wellbeing

Our employees enjoy free coaching sessions with Modern Health. We also offer free therapy sessions with a psychologist. You’ll also have access to private medical insurance for you and your family, that includes dental care. And if you like sports, we have our wellness program to pay for your gym expenses.

Ongoing training and career development is an important part of our culture

We offer unlimited access to courses in Udemy, language exchange programs, internal training, Briteling talks, workshops and weekly sessions with our CEO

Work-life balance is extremely important to us

Our employees can choose what works best for them: work in one of our offices, be fully remote or the best of both worlds! We believe in a flexible working environment to allow Britelings to perform at their best ensuring a healthy work-life balance. We have recently implemented Britebreak Fridays: all Britelings turn off their computers and take the first Friday of every month off to focus on their wellbeing.

ABOUT EVENTBRITE

Eventbrite is a global self-service ticketing and experience technology platform that serves a community of nearly one million event creators in over 180 countries. Since inception, Eventbrite has been at the center of the experience economy, transforming the way people organize and attend events. The Eventbrite platform provides an intuitive, secure, and reliable service that enables creators to plan and execute their live and online events, whether it's an annual culinary festival attracting thousands of foodies, a professional webinar, a weekly yoga workshop or a youth dance class. With over 300 million tickets distributed to more than 4 million experiences in 2019, Eventbrite is where people all over the world discover new things to do or new ways to do more of what they love.

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