Senior Software Engineer, Payments

SeatGeek is a technology innovator on a mission to disrupt the ticketing industry. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer with prior payments experience to join their enterprise payments team, where the engineer will build innovative solutions for payments infrastructure and collaborate closely with various teams to deliver payment strategies.

Responsibilities:

• Run a modern, containerized service-oriented architecture using industry-leading software development practices
• Ship code to production many times a day
• Solve complex performance problems, empower a data-driven business and scale our software to support our booming business
• Build performant, beautiful, inclusive user interfaces that delight our users and enhance our brand
• Evaluate new technologies and improve our software stack to keep our technological edge
• Leverage cutting-edge AI tools to bring ideas to life faster than ever while upholding SeatGeek’s technical and product standards; no token limits
• Work across teams and discipline boundaries to develop the best product in our industry
• Own large areas of the payments stack, from design through operation, including reliability, cost, and performance outcomes
• Iterate and develop against our native payment processing solution, including growing usage across our US and EMEA client base
• Collaborate closely with Finance, Risk, and Product to define and deliver payment strategies

Requirements:

• Experience building business critical software in a fast-paced environment
• Experience solving complex technical challenges
• Passion for software craftsmanship and product
• A product mindset
• Commitment to your teammates
• Experience owning end-to-end payment systems and integrations with external processors (e.g., Stripe, Adyen), including designing resilient, idempotent workflows and handling real-world failure modes
• Experience operating payment systems in production, including monitoring, incident response, and performance optimization (e.g., authorization rates, cost efficiency)
• Experience working cross-functionally with Product, Finance, and Risk to deliver payment solutions aligned with business goals
• Experience leading projects or mentoring engineers, with interest in growing into a broader technical or people leadership role
• Experience ensuring financial correctness through reconciliation, auditability, and robust data modeling