Lead Software Engineer; Remote, United Kingdom

Job Summary:

JOB DESCRIPTION - Lead Software Engineer - Price master

Location:

Remote, United Kingdom

Division:
Ticketmaster UK

Contract

Terms:

Permanent, 40 hours per week

In the role of Lead Software Engineer, you will join the Price master team, focusing on delivering an application that empowers our clients to price their events better. Your role is to lead the development of software solutions that enable efficiency, security, and reliability. You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining robust software solutions that meet business requirements and address emerging security threats.

You will work closely with a variety of stakeholders to ensure seamless integration of software solutions with existing infrastructure services. You'll also be expected to get up to speed quickly on existing systems and make pragmatic, cost‑aware decisions when maintaining or evolving them, prioritizing the most critical issues and delivering improvements iteratively while balancing delivery speed, risk, and long‑term maintainability.

• Ensuring that software is built with robustness, availability, and security risks in mind
• Leading the technical vision and implementing the necessary technical frameworks and libraries that simplify day‑to‑day feature development
• Designing and implementing automation, monitoring, and infrastructure
• Continuously optimizing services across all layers (infrastructure, platform, software) for high availability, reliability, and performance
• Rapidly building a working mental model of complex, sometimes undocumented systems by analysing runtime behaviour, logs, metrics, traces, data flows, and code paths
• Evaluating options to maintain or evolve existing systems (refactor, re‑architect, strangler or incremental replacement, or rewrite) and recommending the most appropriate approach based on impact, risk, and total cost of ownership
• Making pragmatic trade‑offs when working with legacy systems, balancing short‑term delivery needs with long‑term platform health
• Providing technical mentorship and guidance to junior team members
• Exercising independent judgment in methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results
• Participating in on‑call and potentially some after‑hours support as required
• Collaborating with Product, Design, PMO, and other partners to achieve expected outcomes
• Participating in the design and development of new features as well as enhancements of existing system capabilities, always creating value for the user
• Promoting a culture of quality within the team by applying recognised software quality practices
• Navigating ambiguity in complex technical environments and proactively bringing clarity to stakeholders through structured analysis and clear communication

• Solid experience developing production‑quality software at scale.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
• Strong Java programming skills.
• Strong backend development skills, including multithreading, thread pools, and object‑oriented design.
• Strong knowledge of web application testing strategies (unit, integration, UAT, capacity testing).
• Strong knowledge of REST and Graph
  
  QL APIs.
• Strong knowledge of multiple database products (e.g., Dynamo
  
  DB, Elastic Search, MySQL, Cassandra).
• Strong experience building Spring Boot classic and reactive microservices with Java.
• Strong knowledge of distributed, service‑oriented, microservice, and cloud‑based architectures.
• Strong experience building cloud‑native applications using AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Proven track record designing architectures for web applications (CDN, API Gateway, Backend‑for‑Frontend, authentication, security).
• Proven experience working in Agile and Dev Ops development environments.
• Strong knowledge of Dev Ops, CI/CD best practices, and guidelines.
• Proven track record of building complete continuous delivery and continuous deployment pipelines.
• Experience coaching engineers and documenting best practices.
• Strong experience troubleshooting, debugging, fixing issues, and building methodologies to prevent recurrence.
• Ability to learn new technologies and paradigms…