Senior (Java) Engineer – Ticketmaster (Pricing) team

Ticketmaster gives millions of fans – worldwide – fair and easy access to the biggest and best in live entertainment.
Driven by innovation, unparalleled scalability, and unmatched support, Ticketmaster is the definitive leader in professional ticketing solutions. Over 12,000 artists, teams, and venues around the world are giving trust to power their amazing performances daily — with more than 500 million tickets sold each year.

Bakson Ltd company collaborates with Ticketmaster for 19 years already. Bakson Ltd delivers the software used by millions of users across the globe.

At Ticketmaster, the Pricing team’s mission is to increase the fans’ satisfaction and the clients’ ease of use and strategy around the pricing tool. Team wants to re-think and build an ambitious and modernized pricing ecosystem into world’s biggest ticketing system. This will have a huge positive impact on worldwide fans and clients. We are searching for a candidate that is passionate about this mission and who believes that the key to success is collaboration and innovation.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

In the role of Senior Engineer, you will work for the TM1 Pricing team on delivering a B2B application that will be used by business clients and partners of Ticketmaster to optimize their pricing. You will actively participate in overall solution and architecture design of the systems supported by your team.

Under the TM1 Pricing team, you will be responsible for owning the development and design of entire application components and leading team projects. While working independently with minimal supervision, you will rely on your wide range of experience and technical expertise to propose new solutions, ideas, and foster relationships with peers in different teams and offices. You will use your skills and experience to take initiative, solve problems, resolve roadblocks, and apply advanced troubleshooting techniques to fulfill the service objectives. You will iteratively transform the TM1 Pricing application to align it with today’s best practices while introducing and promoting new and simpler integration patterns.

You will represent the team as a technical expert and work closely with the Product Manager on feature requirements and planning. An important part of this role is anticipating team needs and guiding & mentoring individuals to influence the culture and drive continuous improvement. You will work with a large variety of technologies on multiple projects and will be part of a DevOps & Agile team, responsible for the full end-to-end delivery of new functionalities, including testing and production support.

TECHNICAL SKILLS/COMPETENCIES

Design and develop a secure and stable application that clients will rely on daily to optimize their prices.
Strong knowledge of Java, Spring Boot, Kafka and Kubernetes.
Influence architecture design to ensure a simple, scalable, maintainable, reliable, reusable, ansecure application.
Plan stories and iterations to achieve product goals and execute the roadmap.
Be accountable for your team’s performance.
Mentor and motivate colleagues.
Support external teams integrating with your services.
Promote, demonstrate, and document best practices for external integrators.
Develop and deploy services on AWS and Kubernetes.
Ensure a high level of quality.
Collaborate with product managers and UX designers on feature development.
Define and execute a strategy to maintain and modernize legacy components and services.
Automate testing, deployments, resilience, and application monitoring.
Assist in team coordination to optimize performance.
Build and maintain relationships with internal and external partners.
Document support procedures for your systems and train colleagues accordingly.
Participate in the production support rotation.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW?

5+ years of development experience.
5+ years of experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum).
3+ years of experience in DevOps.
Demonstrated experience building shared services and APIs.
Demonstrated experience applying SOLID principles and design patterns.
Demonstrated experience with distributed applications (Microservices, event-driven
architecture with Kafka).
Experience with micro-frontend architecture.
Experience mentoring and leading engineers.
Experience supporting and improving legacy systems.
Experience monitoring real-time, end-to-end production system reliability and performance.
Java, Spring Boot, Maven, GitLab CI.
Experience interacting with at least one database system (DynamoDB, Oracle, MySQL,
MongoDB, etc.).
Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate closely with remote team members.

WHO YOU ARE?

Autonomous and proactive
Passionate about technology and transformation.
Self-motivated, energetic, and tenacious.
Comfortable working in cross-functional and multidisciplinary teams.
Excited about tackling complex technical challenges and finding solutions.
Consistently striving to improve your team.

WHAT WE OFFER

Mix of serious projects and a great working atmosphere, well recognized on the market.
Dynamic international work environment.
Skilled and senior co-workers.
Proper financial compensation.
Private medical care
Personal and professional development – personal education budget, internal Tech talks and soft skills trainings

WHO WE ARE?

Bakson Ltd is a software development company based in Belgrade. We are working with teams around the world and take pride on variety of projects we handle and technology we use.

HOW DO WE WORK?

Our workflow is inspired by Agile and Lean principles. We’re not devoted to Scrum or any other framework, but are trying to work in small batches, with fast feedback and very close interaction with product owners.

The emphasis in our team is on collaboration and mutual support – sharing project workflow with globally distributed teams, contributing code to core global services and applications, and encouraging cultural exchange between development groups. Ticketmaster encourages working from home, and the distributed nature of our teams requires us to have flexibility around working hours. We’re familiar with asynchronous and remote work. A Software Engineer in our company is a core writer of code, but also an inspirer and an exemplar to other developers…

Basically, what we care about is that you are a self-starter, happy to work with others, and prepared to adapt and do your best.

HOW TO APPLY?

We aim for our hiring process to be as collaborative and realistic as possible, so it’ll be focused on writing and reviewing code – both written by you and by others. We want you to feel like you’d be comfortable working with us, and we also want to feel the same way, so you’ll meet quite a few of the team, and interact with them in as close to a life-like way as possible. This is a two-way street – we’re keen for you to like us as much as the other way around. If you’d like get started, you can apply by pressing the “apply” button on this webpage or by sending a CV or an introductory email to [email protected]