Software Engineering Team Lead

Founded in 2017, REPS & Co. is a future leader in the entertainment industry specializing in ticketing for live events. Our founders and key staff are industry veterans with fresh ideas for the ticketing industry. We provide tickets to many events and shows across the nation including music, sports and theatrical performances. We pride ourselves in offering the best experience for the best price to our customers. Our technology is what allows us to outperform our competitors and deliver an unforgettable experience to fans. In 2019 we were named as one of San Diego Union Tribune's Top Workplaces and were the recipient of the Innovation Spotlight Award.

We are seeking an organized, experienced, and motivated Team Lead for our Konami team. The ideal candidate will excel at leading and mentoring engineers, fostering professional growth, and nurturing a collaborative team environment. This role also involves actively contributing high-quality code, championing best practices, and driving our software forward through innovation and problem-solving. We value proactive communicators who thrive in a fast-paced environment, bring creative solutions, and prioritize building a culture of collaboration, diversity, and customer-focused outcomes.

We believe that how we do things is as important as what we do. You are an inventive, industrious builder that loves all things technology and you are capable of on-time execution. Good strategic thinking, passion for quality, curiosity, and dedication in fun and collaboration are what lead to great results. Great products reflect the teams that build them.

The ideal candidate will be responsible for:

• Leading on-time delivery of quality software based on various cloud architecture
• Delivering high quality code
• Leading and mentoring a team of engineers

Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience leading/mentoring a team of engineers
• 5+ years working as a backend software engineer using Typescript, Python, or Golang as your primary language
• 3+ years working with React-based frontends (vanilla React, Next, Tanstack, Remix, etc)
• Successful experience with architectural patterns for large, high-scale web applications (well-designed API’s, high-volume pipelines, efficient algorithms) in cloud technologies
• Experience in working in a microservices architecture – strong API design, management and use, messaging and event-handling (i.e. SQS, SNS, Kafka, etc), and consumable data patterns
• Experience coding to write to and read from: relational data systems (MySQL, Postgres, Redshift, etc.)
• In-memory data stores (Redis/Memcached) and NoSQL data systems (MongoDB, CouchDB, DynamoDB)
• Building DevOps (CI/CD) pipelines from code repositories (GitHub) and secure coding practices (OWASP and SANS)
• Experience in building a platform and user experience that streams individualized, personalized content and that leverages repeatable, data-based patterns
• Knowledge of agile and Scrum principles and a willingness to hone your use of agile methods
• Consistently deliver completed work independently but know how to work within your team to get help as needed
• Strong team-oriented mindset with heavy focus on collaboration and mentorship
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills (integrity, patience, empathy, etc.)

Technical Skills:

• STRONG EXPERIENCE with AWS Cloud components (EC2, ECS, Lambda / SAM (Serverless), Step Functions, SQS, SNS, RDS, Airflow, Glue, EC2, S3)
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code leveraging Terraform. Experience with CDK/SAM, Pulumi also accepted
• Relational Database design and development (preferably experience with high volumes of data, 1,000,000s of records and up)
• Strong Golang Experience
• Strong Python + Typescript experience
• Proficient with React / Next.js
• Strong experience with SDLC best practices
• Troubleshooting / Performance tuning