Engineering Manager
Place Exchange- Full Time
- Junior (1 to 2 years), Senior (5 to 8 years)
The Engineering Manager should have experience in leading, managing, and inspiring cross-functional, agile engineering teams, a solid technical background with a passion for delivering high-quality, maintainable software following lean/agile methodologies, and comfort participating in architectural discussions. They should also have experience applying concepts like experimentation, rapid prototyping, MVP definition, user research, and data-driven, customer-first decision-making to engineering, experience working within a highly collaborative, remote-first environment, and the ability to recruit, onboard, grow and develop a globally-distributed engineering team. Furthermore, they need an understanding of build/deployment pipelines and tooling, cloud technologies such as AWS, excellent communication skills, and excellent facilitation skills involving the whole team in group-based decision-making. Finally, fluency in both Spanish and English is required.
As the Engineering Manager, the candidate will lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of software engineers, guiding their work and supporting their professional development, drive initiatives for event creation workflows, onboarding, and AI-assisted creation tools, refine our software design lifecycle by clarifying product requirements and setting engineering standards, collaborate closely with Product and Design to define and prioritize roadmap initiatives, champion strong engineering practices and foster a culture of innovation, diversity, and psychological safety, identify and act on opportunities to improve user experience for event creators, and encourage ownership and thought leadership across the team.
Self-service ticketing platform for live events
Eventbrite is a self-service ticketing platform that allows individuals and organizations to create, share, find, and attend various live events. Users can set up events ranging from music festivals to conferences and gaming competitions. The platform works by enabling event organizers to sell tickets online, while also providing tools for payment processing and event marketing. Eventbrite stands out from competitors by offering personalized recommendations and automated notifications to enhance the ticket-buying experience. The goal of Eventbrite is to simplify the event management process for organizers and make it easier for attendees to discover and participate in live events.