The Senior Software Engineer at StubHub will enhance live event technology, mentor team members, and tackle complex software challenges across platforms.
StubHub is on a mission to redefine the live event experience on a global scale. Whether someone is looking to attend their first event or their hundredth, we’re here to delight them all the way from the moment they start looking for a ticket until they step through the gate. The same goes for our sellers. From fans selling a single ticket to the promoters of a worldwide stadium tour, we want StubHub to be the safest, most convenient way to offer a ticket to the millions of fans who browse our platform around the world.
To transform the way millions of users explore, interact with, and participate in live events worldwide, StubHub is seeking Senior Software Engineers to design and develop next-generation technologies and complex features. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be at the forefront of tackling significant, ambiguous, and non-trivial challenges as a core contributor and innovator, bringing creative technical solutions to life. To ensure our company's success, our Senior Software Engineers must demonstrate initiative and enthusiasm for the problems they tackle. StubHub is committed to being a phenomenal and inclusive workplace. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will also serve as an advocate and mentor for your team members, demonstrating leadership qualities and setting an example for those around you.
Location: Hybrid (3 days in office/2 days remote)
About the team:
The Direct Marketing Technology team builds the intelligence and systems behind StubHub’s lifecycle marketing engine, encompassing email, push, and app notifications. We focus on making every fan interaction relevant, timely, and effective in driving repeat engagement. Our work sits at the intersection of data science, personalization, marketing technology, and software engineering. The challenge: retain attention in a noisy digital world by creating messaging that resonates emotionally and delivers value, not just promotion. Our solutions rely on real-time targeting, campaign decision-making, and experimentation at scale.
The Direct Marketing Technology team builds the intelligence and systems behind StubHub’s lifecycle marketing engine, encompassing email, push, and app notifications. We focus on making every fan interaction relevant, timely, and effective in driving repeat engagement. Our work sits at the intersection of data science, personalization, marketing technology, and software engineering. The challenge: retain attention in a noisy digital world by creating messaging that resonates emotionally and delivers value, not just promotion. Our solutions rely on real-time targeting, campaign decision-making, and experimentation at scale.
What You'll Do:
- Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain impactful improvements across all StubHub’s platforms and products, resulting in high-quality outcomes
- Collaborate with team members to ensure best practices across our code
- Manage individual initiative priorities, deadlines, and deliverables with your technical expertise
- Mentor other team members and help many increase their technical capabilities, fostering a culture of inclusion, results-oriented execution, open innovation, and limitless creativity
- 5-6+ years of professional experience in software development
- Extensive experience developing robust, mission-critical systems using multiple general-purpose programming languages (e.g., Java, C#)
- Demonstrated expertise in building software with one or more of the following: Infrastructure, Databases, Data Processing, Machine Learning, Distributed Systems, Security, and Privacy
- Previous experience designing and developing solutions to complex problems with significant business impact
- A strong understanding of how their systems interact with the broader production environment, including dependencies and platform primitives
- Proven ability to learn other coding languages, platforms, frameworks, and tools
- Experience owning projects from the initial idea all the way to production
- Experience mentoring junior engineers
What We Offer:
- Accelerated Growth Environment: An environment designed for swift skill and knowledge enhancement, where you have the autonomy to lead experiments and tests on a massive scale.
- Top Tier Compensation Package: Competitive base, equity, and upside that tracks with your impact.
- Flexible Time Off: Embrace a healthy work-life balance with unlimited Flex Time Off, providing you the flexibility to manage your schedule and recharge as needed.
- Comprehensive Benefits Package: Prioritize your well-being with a comprehensive benefits package, featuring 401k, and premium Health, Vision, and Dental Insurance options.
The anticipated gross base pay range is below for this role. Actual compensation will vary depending on factors such as a candidate’s qualifications, skills, experience, and competencies. Base annual salary is one component of StubHub’s total compensation and competitive benefits package, which includes equity, 401(k), paid time off, paid parental leave, and comprehensive health benefits.
Salary Range
$200,000—$250,000 USD
About Us
StubHub is the world’s leading marketplace to buy and sell tickets to any live event, anywhere. Through StubHub in North America and viagogo, our international platform, we service customers in 195 countries in 33 languages and 49 available currencies. With more than 300 million tickets available annually on our platform to events around the world -- from sports to music, comedy to dance, festivals to theater -- StubHub offers the safest, most convenient way to buy or sell tickets to the most memorable live experiences. Come join our team for a front-row seat to the action.
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We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity on our team. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status.
Top Skills
C#
Java
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