Eventbrite is seeking a Principal Frontend Software Engineer to join us in our mission to bring the world together through live experiences. Last year alone, our platform processed over 150 million tickets across over 3 million events organized by our creators. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to build beautiful, responsive, delightful, and intuitive user interfaces that our creators and attendees are excited to use every day.

The members of our team tackle big problems through small group collaboration. Our technology spans across web, mobile, APIs, big data and machine learning, search, as well as physical point of sale and ticket scanning systems. As a people-focused organization, we support a culture of inclusion, mentorship, and continuous learning. Pair programming, weekly demos, tech talks, and hackathons are at the core of how we build our team and product. We engage with the community by hosting events with exciting technical speakers and releasing key building blocks of our stack as open-source software.   

We are seeking an experienced and driven software engineer to join our team and help influence front end development at Eventbrite. You will impact the broad business by providing architectural guidance, applying your experience both hands on and by enabling others. You will contribute to Eventbrite engineering’s culture of technical excellence through inclusivity, knowledge sharing, and mentorship. This is more than an opportunity to join an amazing team, it is a chance to impact Eventbrite’s platform and organization at scale.

Eventbrite extensively uses React with Redux and has started using Typescript for building various applications.  We are one of the world’s largest Django-powered sites by request volume.  Python, Django, and MySQL are the primary off-the-shelf technologies in our stack.  We are hosted on AWS.

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 costYou 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 them
• You have a holistic approach to quality

BONUS POINTS

• You have a strong portfolio (on Github) that displays your passion for delighting users
• You have previous experience working with a large engineering team on a complex web application
• You have previous experience with build chain tools like Webpack, Gulp, Grunt, and YarnYou have previous experience with visual design techniques like spacing, typography, and color
• You have familiarity with server-side frameworks such as Django, Express, Rails, .Net, or Node.jsYou have familiarity with working in container environments and continuous integration tools like Jenkins
• You have familiarity with Typescript
• You have familiarity with relational databases, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, etc

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.

Since Eventbrite went public on the New York Stock Exchange in 2018, all employees are granted a RSU plan (Restricted Stock Units). The earning of these stocks occur through periodical vestings and the best part is that it is deposited in your bank account in USD

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.

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.

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

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.

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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Eventbrite is committed to equality of opportunity for all staff, and applications from all suitably qualified individuals are encouraged, regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. 

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