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Staff Software Engineer

Eventbrite, Inc.Posted 2/12/2025

Eventbrite, Inc. logo

Staff Software Engineer

Eventbrite, Inc.

Job Location

India

Job Summary

Eventbrite is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join their team in India. As a people-first organization, they value collaboration, mentorship, and continuous learning. The ideal candidate will have 8+ years of experience building applications in mainstream programming languages, with expertise in Python, Django, MySQL, React, and Redux. They should be efficient, practical programmers who prioritize code quality, testing, and teamwork. Eventbrite offers a comprehensive benefits package, wellness programs, and a diverse, inclusive culture. The company is transitioning to a new stack, providing autonomy to each team. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will collaborate with product, design, and other engineers to formulate and implement solutions, shape the technical direction of the mobile area, and contribute to the growth of the team.

Job Description

THE CHALLENGE
Eventbrite is seeking Staff Software Engineers to join us in our mission to bring the world together through live experiences.Eventbrite is a people-first organization. Our goal of building the global platform for live experience relies on the foundation of top talent and strong company culture. Our team is the face of Eventbrite, and we’re charged with finding, attracting, and bringing on the best of the best to drive Eventbrite’s growing business and award-winning culture forward. Hiring the best talent globally is no easy feat. However, we have a talented team who has an inspiring story and mission. Our perfect candidate is someone who can connect that vision and story with top-notch talent.
 
THE TEAM
The members of our team tackle big problems through small group collaboration. Our technology spans APIs, cloud technologies, backend, and frontend systems within the Growth System team. 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.
Our engineering teams own their services and systems end to end from requirements gathering 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 Staff Software Engineer you will collaborate with product, design and other engineers to formulate and implement solutions to various needs and requirements. You’ll also be in a preferred position to shape the technical direction of the mobile area, working closely with our Principal Engineer ensuring Eventbrite’s platform evolves to exceed our customers’ expectations. We work in an iterative fashion to always have a shippable product that can instantly add incremental value to our users. We value code quality and high confidence around our releases. Besides this, and at the team level, you will be also involved in other engineers' technical growth by following their progress in the career path, providing feedback, and evaluating team members' performance. This mentorship also implies that you will be involved in the definition of that career along with other more experienced engineers and that you will be a decision-maker helper about really important things in relation to the team.
 
THE TECH STACK
Eventbrite is 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. PySOA, our services framework builds on these core technologies. On the frontend, we make extensive use of React and Redux. However, the company is transitioning to a completely new stack (such as Kotlin, DynamoDB, Lambdas, gRPC, Step Functions, etc) where each team will have complete ownership and autonomy.

THE SKILL SET

  • 8+ years building applications in a mainstream programming language: Python, PHP, Ruby, C#, C++, Java, etc.
  • Experience working with HTML, CSS, Javascript. Modern frontend frameworks: React, Backbone/Marionette, etc
  • 2+ years of experience using some form of web framework: Django, Symphony, Rails, ASP.net, etc.
  • 2+ years of experience using a SQL database: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, etc
  • Efficient, practical programmer with a record of producing dependable code
  • You care about making sure your code is maintainable and well tested
  • You bring knowledge of TDD and do it in your day to day
  • A result driven self starter with great communication and collaboration skills, we put a lot of emphasis on being team players
  • You enjoy mentoring and teaching colleagues at all levels, while also learning from them.
  • You are a pragmatic programmer that understands how to balance quality, time to ship, and cost.
  • You have a holistic approach to quality.
  • You can improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.

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 familiarity with working in container environments and continuous integration tools like Jenkins.
  • You have knowledge of microservices and/or Service Oriented Architecture
  • You have experience working with modern frontend frameworks: React, Backbone/Marionette, etc

ABOUT EVENTBRITE

At Eventbrite everyone is invited to be their whole self and we cultivate an environment to make sure that is feasible throughout the entirety of an individual's time at Eventbrite. We are committed to providing competitive, valuable and meaningful benefits and experiences for our employees to ensure we meet them where they are in life. 

Cultivating a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture where all people are invited and belong is our top priority. 

Employees can participate in resource groups and we offer global programming and training throughout the year to support a diverse and inclusive workplace.  Read more about our Diversity and Inclusion work for our team, culture, and community.

BENEFITS

We offer comprehensive benefits and a wellness package above and beyond standard medical benefits to support our Britelings’ lifestyle.

Eventbrite's global benefit programs are designed to meet you where you are by offering resources and support for your health, well-being, finances, and family. This includes support in a remote environment, wellness allowance, Carrot family planning benefit, Origin Financial Planning service, and other offerings to ease the mind and body like Modern Health and BriteBreaks (generally the first Friday of every month off).

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

At Eventbrite, we are dedicated to fostering diversity, equity and inclusion. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds, abilities and experiences to apply, and we make employment decisions on the basis of merit. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender reassignment, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics, or any other legally protected characteristic.

If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during any part of the interview process, please let your recruiter know. 

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