Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. SeatGeek is a company focused on modernizing the ticketing industry through technology. They are seeking an Engineering Manager for their Finance Engineering team to lead the development of financial systems and automation, ensuring accuracy and operational excellence while managing a team of engineers.
Responsibilities
- Manage a team of software and data engineers - who work AI-first by default
- Own the technical vision for SeatGeek’s core financial systems, tools (both custom + Saas) and integrations
- Ensure the financial automation stack reads from the right upstream tools / systems across the business seamlessly, adapt and translate that information into our general ledger and billing systems
- Rapidly build and iterate tools to boost the quality and speed of interactions with our finance data, building and leveraging deep cross functional partnerships with the broader engineering org
- Maintain a high standard of accuracy, completeness and operational excellence across the platform
- Define and deliver the go-forward architecture that allows SeatGeek’s financial automation stack to excel in a landscape increasingly transformed by agentic interactions and capabilities
- Perform code and architecture reviews, and provide technical and design feedback to the team
- Provide regular job performance feedback, hold one-on-ones, and provide career development support to your direct reports
- Select new and work with existing technology vendors when necessary. You constantly make build or buy decisions together with your team
- At times, roll up your sleeves to deliver features and iterate across the platform
- Communicate technical and product decisions to the right people, resolve blocking issues, and collaborate with other leaders across the organization
- Play an active role in our recruiting process, helping us grow our engineering team in any way you can
Skills
- 5+ years as an engineer in a role that was mostly about writing code
- 3+ years of experience as an engineering manager of productive, motivated teams
- Proven track record leading teams to ship industry-leading UX that meaningfully elevates high-stakes customer experiences
- Proven experience handling and processing transactional data at scale in a SOX controlled environment
- You've successfully built and led lean teams, ensuring they're productive, motivated, and capable of delivering impactful results
- You're able to foster safe, collaborative & inclusive environments, where engineers feel empowered to do their best work
- You're comfortable operating without a playbook — defining the architecture, the team's ways of working, and the roadmap simultaneously
- You're able to break down complex technical concepts and explain them clearly to non-technical audiences, accurately representing the team's work to a wide range of stakeholders
- Knowledge of the technology industry and financial tools + methods to help your team make good tooling and framework decisions to set them up for success
- You understand how to lead by setting context, facilitating collaboration, and getting buy-in between cross functional partners in product, design, engineering and leadership
- You've worked as an Engineer in the past, are familiar with the challenges of that role, and preferably have had hands-on experience with the following: Custom tools to automate financial operations and create accurate and complete financial reporting outputs
- Extensive hands-on transactional data experience, and knowledge of finance and accounting principles
Benefits
- Equity stake
- Flexible work environment, allowing you to work as many days a week in the office as you’d like or 100% remotely
- A WFH stipend to support your home office setup
- Unlimited PTO
- Up to 16 weeks of fully-paid family leave
- 401(k) matching
- Student loan matching program
- Health, vision, dental, and life insurance
- Up to $25k towards family building, reproductive health services and Gender-affirming care
- $500 per year for wellness expenses
- Subscriptions to Headspace (meditation), Headspace Care (therapy), and One Medical
- $360 per quarter to spend on tickets to live events
- Annual subscription to Spotify, Apple Music, or Amazon music
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