Software Engineer
Company: Vivid Seats
Location: Chicago, IL
Salary: $125k - $150k per year
Type: Full-time
Level: mid
Posted: 2026-02-12
About this role
Who we are
:
Founded in 2001, Vivid Seats (NASDAQ: SEAT) is a leading online ticket marketplace committed to becoming the ultimate partner for connecting fans to the live events, artists, and teams they love. We believe in the power of experiences and are fiercely dedicated to building products that inspire human connections. Named as one of
Built
In's
top places to work in 2025
, we believe that our People are our greatest competitive advantage. To support our People, we have built a company culture that empowers our employees to embrace challenges, encourages unity through collaboration, and seeks to constantly evolve by leveraging data and inspiring innovation.
We believe in harnessing emerging technology to power performance and unlock creativity. As part of our culture of innovation, we actively embrace the use of AI tools to enhance decision-making, improve workflows, and produce better outcomes for our customers.
The Opportunity:
As a
Software Engineer III
you’ll make highly visible enhancements to our platform by maintaining and building new features across our Core Java applications. Our teams work with a variety of applications that enable our ability to sell tickets, manage inventory, support our internal users, and provide a great customer experience from the website to the box office.
How your role contributes to the success of Vivid Seats:
- Help set the direction of the design and development of the backend systems powering our Ticket Marketplace, and Vegas.com.
- Develop innovative solutions that give Vivid Seats a competitive advantage, encourage team members, and champion technology improvements for your team.
- Work cross functionally in Agile development teams that deploy to AWS production environments on demand, multiple times a day.
- Tackle some of the most difficult challenges scaling an e-commerce marketplace by developing creative algorithms and features that maximize value and efficiency a...