Staff Software Engineer - Ads

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 Eventbrite Ads business is growing in order to accelerate our ability to deliver a world-class ad 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 Ads Creator Experience team operates in the Eventbrite Ads Business and manages our creators’ entry points into the ads ecosystem. The main focus of our team is to enable creators to promote their events across Eventbrite owned destinations and deliver a delightful consumer experience. The team is responsible for the UI and backend that supports the creation and management of ad campaigns. Features include, but are not limited to, solutions for targeting attendees based on geography and other attributes, keeping creators up to date with timely emails reporting campaign status, showing the creators the performance of ad campaigns, and invoicing them for their ad spend. By joining us you can enable the team to bring ads creation to the next level, while collaborating with other engineers in multiple product teams across the advertising 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 Staff Software Engineer, you will extend the underlying framework and APIs for the ads creator ecosystem and contribute to building beautiful, responsive, delightful and intuitive user interfaces that people who create and advertise events are excited to use. You will collaborate with product, design, and other engineers to formulate and implement high quality, reliable 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 across the ad business and creator organization.

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 advertising platform and organization at scale, advance your career, and grow others on the team.

THE TECH STACK

The Eventbrite Ads team uses FastAPI, a Python-based web framework, to power our Web APIs. We make extensive use of AWS, including ECS/Fargate to host our services, Lambda, S3, OpenSearch, Timestream, and DynamoDB and Aurora MySQL for data storage. On the frontend, we use React and TypeScript for rapid, iterative development.

THE SKILL SET

• Experience: 6 years experience building customer-facing software applications
• Languages: Strong experience with high-level languages, specifically Python and TypeScript
• Frontend: Practical experience working with HTML, CSS, Ajax, JavaScript. Modern frontend frameworks like React
• SDLC: Familiarity with the SDLC and CI/CD pipelines
• Testing: Unit-testing expertise required, experience with TDD or BDD is an added bonus
• APIs: You have experience designing and developing APIs
• Cloud: Experience with AWS (preferred) or Google Cloud Services
• Databases: Experience with MySQL, Aurora, or other RDBMS (NoSQL is a plus)
• Soft Skills: A result driven self starter with great communication and collaboration skills who enjoys learning and helping their teammates grow
• Code Quality: You care about making sure your code is maintainable and well tested
• Teamwork: You work with teams that are continuously delivering and automating processes, you are excited about working in a world class SDLC environment
• Industry: Experience in Martech, Ads, or similar industries and functions

BONUS POINTS

• A/B Testing: knowledge and/or experience
• Eventbrite User: Active Eventbrite user