Lead Engineer (Remote, United Kingdom)

at  Live Nation

Job Summary:
Lead Engineer – TM1 Events
Location: Remote, United Kingdom
Division: Ticketmaster UK Limited
Contract Terms: Permanent

YOU (BEHAVIOURAL SKILLS)

• Has advanced troubleshooting techniques and resolves problems as they occur.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills, frequently identifies enhancements.
• Demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
• Actively participates in overall solution and architectural design of the system.
• Pro-actively reviews various sources of performance, security and quality data to ensure accuracy and identify issues.
• Is open minded and actively seeks opportunities to try out new ideas and situations
• Imports good ideas from similar situations experienced within their team or other teams across Technology.
• Ensures all work is performed to high standards.
• Experience working asynchronously with colleagues in different timezones

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW (or TECHNICAL SKILLS)

• Solid experience developing production-quality software at a high scale
• Ability to learn new technologies and paradigms rapidly
• Strong Java programming skills
• Strong backend development, Multithreading, Thread-Pools with strong OOP skills
• Strong knowledge of web applications test strategies (UT, IT, UAT, Capacity tests…)
• Strong knowledge of REST and GraphQL
• Strong knowledge of multiple database products (e.g DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, MySQL, Mongo)
• Strong knowledge writing Springboot classic and reactive microservices with Java
• Strong knowledge of Distributed / Service-Oriented / Microservice and cloud-based architectures
• Strong knowledge building cloudnative applications on AWS, Docker, Kubernetes
• Proven track record building architectures for web applications (CDN, API Gateway, Backend For Front End, Authentication, Security)
• Proven track record working in an Agile + DevOps development environment
• Strong knowledge of DevOps / Continuous Delivery / Continuous Deployment best practices and guidelines
• Proven track record of building complete continuous delivery / continuous deployment pipelines;
• Experience coaching engineers and documenting the best practice

• Design and implement robust, reliable, highly available, and scalable APIs with solid monitoring and alerting capabilities
• Conceive, plan and implement innovative approaches to solve complex and multi-dimensional problems of diverse scope
• Create formal networks with key decision makers and serves as a spokesperson for the team.
• Lead the technical vision and implement the necessary technical frameworks and libraries that simplify the day-to-day features implementation. This also involves being accountable for the technical solutions.
• Continuously optimize services on all layers (infrastructure, platform, software) for high availability, high reliability, and high performance
• Interact with Product / UX designers and propose the right solutions to implement
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering leadership to build new features within strategic product roadmap
• Define technical specifications and technical acceptance criteria for the development team to meet the business requirements
• Monitor all critical services, troubleshoot, and address problems as they arise (including any needed changes in code, topology, resources, or configuration)
• Ensure high quality in all levels (code quality, bug free deployments, automated tests)
• Define meticulously the platform SLAs through load testing, chaos testing, and disaster recovery process
• Solve technical problems of the highest scope, complexity and ambiguity. This includes ensuring high quality through automated tests. This also involves providing a point of escalation for teams facing complex technical challenges.
• Be part of pager duty rotation
• Proactively identify opportunities to reuse or generalize existing product features. Avoids duplication of effort by encouraging collaboration. This involves ensuring the right balance between standardization, innovation, quality, and technical debt reduction, to be able to deliver the business value fast
• Teach, mentor, grow and provide advice to other software developers and domain experts across teams.
• Look for innovation opportunities between several teams with willingness to experiment and to boldly confront problems of large complexity and scope.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW (or TECHNICAL SKILLS)

• Solid experience developing production-quality software at a high scale
• Ability to learn new technologies and paradigms rapidly
• Strong Java programming skills
• Strong backend development, Multithreading, Thread-Pools with strong OOP skills
• Strong knowledge of web applications test strategies (UT, IT, UAT, Capacity tests…)
• Strong knowledge of REST and GraphQL
• Strong knowledge of multiple database products (e.g DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, MySQL, Mongo)
• Strong knowledge writing Springboot classic and reactive microservices with Java
• Strong knowledge of Distributed / Service-Oriented / Microservice and cloud-based architectures
• Strong knowledge building cloudnative applications on AWS, Docker, Kubernetes
• Proven track record building architectures for web applications (CDN, API Gateway, Backend For Front End, Authentication, Security)
• Proven track record working in an Agile + DevOps development environment
• Strong knowledge of DevOps / Continuous Delivery / Continuous Deployment best practices and guidelines
• Proven track record of building complete continuous delivery / continuous deployment pipelines;
• Experience coaching engineers and documenting the best practices