Android Developer

The Overview

It's a fun time to be building a ticketing app. Mobile ticketing right now is where photo sharing was four years ago (i.e. it's awful). We're changing that.

A few months ago we launched first version of the SeatGeek iOS app. Until then, buying a sports/concert ticket on a phone had involved staring at a fuzzy map of a stadium and trying to figure out where you'd sit. The iOS app has the first interactive (i.e. Google Maps-style) seating charts on phone, and they're big and gorgeous.

We want to bring that same evolution to Android. But we don't just want to "port the iOS app to Android"...we want to build an elegant, Android-specific experience that takes advantage of the strengths and subtleties of the platform. We want SeatGeek to define what it's like to buy tickets on Android for the next ten years, and we're looking for someone to lead the charge.

What You'll Be Doing

• Build the initial, focused (i.e. feature-poor) SeatGeek Android app
• Lead the development of future versions of the Android app
• Define the long-term architectural plan for the app
• Work with the SeatGeek design folks (me...sorry, this job has its downsides) to build a UI that stands out among the best Android interfaces

What We're Looking For

• An engineer who's comfortable handling plenty of responsibility and can see a project to completion with minimal help and intervention
• Someone who cares about building experiences that are used and loved by many
• We are not only looking for people with prior Android and/or Java experience (although that would be ideal). If you want to dive head first into Android development and learn, we'd love to support you.
• If you're applying without prior Android/Java experience, we'd be particularly interested in talking to you if you (1) have experience building mobile-optimized websites or (2) are a frontend coder keenly focused on creating great user experiences.

Job Perks

• A competitive base salary and equity stake in a well-funded early stage company
• A culture where the product is king
• A laid-back, fun workplace with all endless provisions, frequent team lunches, and social jaunts organized by Eric Waller, our official Social Chair
• The opportunity to write code that is used outside of SeatGeek, e.g. we've opensourced our job system, DJJob, our Redis-backed autocompleting service, Soulmate, and our Python string matching library, FuzzyWuzzy
• A superb benefits package, including full health/dental/vision
• Hackathons: scheduled times when everyone drops what they’re doing and builds cool stuff in small groups

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