Job Summary
WHO ARE YOU?
Do you enjoy dance music? Are you an experienced developer? Then you’re in luck! We are looking for a highly motivated self-starter who embodies both a passion for dance culture and developing web based products. Is this you? Read on…
WHO ARE WE?
Insomniac produces some of the most innovative, immersive music festivals and events in the world. Enhanced by state-of-the-art lighting, pyrotechnics and sound design, large-scale art installations, theatrical performers and next generation special effects, our events captivate the senses and inspire a unique level of fan interaction. The quality of the Headliner experience is our top priority.
Insomniac produces 10,000 concerts, club nights and festivals for seven million attendees annually across the globe. Since its inception, Insomniac's events have taken place in 13 countries across five continents. The company's premiere annual event, Electric Daisy Carnival Las Vegas, is the world’s largest dance music festival and attracts more than 525,000 fans over three days. The company was founded by Pasquale Rotella and has been based in Los Angeles since it was formed in 1993.
THE ROLE
Insomniac Events is seeking a highly skilled Backend Software Engineer for a hybrid eligible position.
You will be responsible for delivering high-quality code releases and managing multiple development projects while providing direction on software design and development processes. You must have experience with back-end systems, automated testing, AWS, and Git workflow. The ability to work collaboratively with internal and offshore development teams is essential, as well as experience with Kubernetes, RESTful and GraphQL services, and event-driven microservice architecture.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with product, design, and marketing teams to build and maintain new features to achieve roadmap goals
- Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
- Partner with offshore development teams to build innovative new features that operate at scale
- Write clean, secure, and reusable code while working closely with internal and offshore development teams
- Support debugging production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
- Strategize and manage multiple development projects while providing direction on software design and development processes
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or 3+ years of equivalent work experience working with a team
- Demonstrated fluency in React (with Typescript) and Go (bonus points for Next.js)
- Experience writing automated tests
- Experience with AWS (S3, EC2, Route 53, Elastic Beanstalk, EKS, etc.)
- Unix/Linux web server knowledge and applied understanding (SSL certificates / DNS / email setup)
- Experience with Kubernetes and managing CI/CD tooling
- Git workflow (branching, merging, tagging, cherry picking)
- Understanding of RESTful and GraphQL services and how to interact with them
- Experienced with event-driven microservice architecture
- Database design concepts and experience with SQL (primarily Postgres)
- Effective verbal and written communication skills with a diverse population
- Experience & confidence to help direct discussions about an optimal infrastructure configuration for our needs
- Experience writing automated E2E tests
- Experience with implementing automated tooling to standardize & streamline software engineering workflows
- Experience implementing observability & logging systems across multiple services (Golang, Typescript (Node.js), Typescript (Next.js)) for the purposes of debugging & performance testing
- Experience in the travel industry
- Must be able to tolerate loud noise levels & busy environments
- Must be willing to work in drastic temperature climates when onsite at our events
- Must be willing to travel to work during evening and weekend hours, as required, to meet deadlines
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
Insomniac strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.
HIRING PRACTICES
The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.
Insomniac recruitment policies are designed to place the most highly qualified persons available in a timely and efficient manner. Insomniac may pursue all avenues available, including promotion from within, employee referrals, outside advertising, employment agencies, Internet recruiting, job fairs, college recruiting and search firms.
Hiring Salary Range: $120,000.00 - $140,000.00 USD
Please note that the compensation information provided is a good faith estimate for this position only and is provided pursuant to the California Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements Law. It is estimated based on what a successful California applicant might be paid. It assumes that the successful candidate will be in California or perform the position from California. Similar positions located outside of California will not necessarily receive the same compensation. Insomniac takes into consideration a candidate’s education, training, and experience, as well as the position’s work location, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value, including seniority and merit systems, and internal pay alignment when determining the salary level for potential new employees. In compliance with the California Law, a potential new employee’s salary history will not be used in compensation decisions. #J-18808-Ljbffr