Engineering Manager, Finance Engineering

SeatGeek believes live events are powerful experiences that unite humans. With our technological savvy and fan-first attitude we’re simplifying and modernizing the ticketing industry.

SeatGeek’s finance stack supports the reporting and operationalization of billions of dollars in transactions and settlements across diverse revenue streams and dozens of production systems. FinEng is the dedicated team focused on getting our arms around the finance and accounting data that SeatGeek generates across the business. This team is rethinking and rebuilding the systems that power our understanding of fan purchases, marketplace settlements, and unit economics - all towards our mission of making SeatGeek the top destination for live event goers.

As the company grows and use cases with our finance data transform, our stack will need to adjust and scale to keep pace with new agentic demands and the increasing complexity of our financial operations. You'll lead and shape the vision for the team rethinking and rebuilding the systems that power our understanding of fan purchases, marketplace settlements, and unit economics. If you are passionate about modernizing financial infrastructure, and building teams and platforms that provide teams and agents data they can trust, this is your opportunity to transform how we think about money at SeatGeek.

What you'll do

Manage a team of software and data engineers - who work AI-first by default

Own the technical vision for SeatGeek’s core financial systems, tools (both custom + Saas) and integrations

Ensure the financial automation stack reads from the right upstream tools / systems across the business seamlessly, adapt and translate that information into our general ledger and billing systems

Rapidly build and iterate tools to boost the quality and speed of interactions with our finance data, building and leveraging deep cross functional partnerships with the broader engineering org

Maintain a high standard of accuracy, completeness and operational excellence across the platform

Define and deliver the go-forward architecture that allows SeatGeek’s financial automation stack to excel in a landscape increasingly transformed by agentic interactions and capabilities

Perform code and architecture reviews, and provide technical and design feedback to the team

Provide regular job performance feedback, hold one-on-ones, and provide career development support to your direct reports

Select new and work with existing technology vendors when necessary. You constantly make build or buy decisions together with your team

At times, roll up your sleeves to deliver features and iterate across the platform

Communicate technical and product decisions to the right people, resolve blocking issues, and collaborate with other leaders across the organization

Play an active role in our recruiting process, helping us grow our engineering team in any way you can

What you have

5+ years as an engineer in a role that was mostly about writing code

3+ years of experience as an engineering manager of productive, motivated teams

Proven track record leading teams to ship industry-leading UX that meaningfully elevates high-stakes customer experiences

Proven experience handling and processing transactional data at scale in a SOX controlled environment

You’ve successfully built and led lean teams, ensuring they’re productive, motivated, and capable of delivering impactful results

You’re able to foster safe, collaborative inclusive environments, where engineers feel empowered to do their best work

You're comfortable operating without a playbook — defining the architecture, the team's ways of working, and the roadmap simultaneously

You're able to break down complex technical concepts and explain them clearly to non-technical audiences, accurately representing the team's work to a wide range of stakeholders

Knowledge of the technology industry and financial tools + methods to help your team make good tooling and framework decisions to set them up for success

You understand how to lead by setting context, facilitating collaboration, and getting buy-in between cross functional partners in product, design, engineering and leadership

You’ve worked as an Engineer in the past, are familiar with the challenges of that role, and preferably have had hands-on experience with the following:

Custom tools to automate financial operations and create accurate and complete financial reporting outputs

Extensive hands-on transactional data experience, and knowledge of finance and accounting principles

Our stack

Experience with every technology listed isn’t expected, we’ve included them for transparency. What matters most to us is your core engineering skills and ability to learn, not deep expertise in any one tool or language.

Languages: Python (FastAPI)

Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Datadog, Gitlab

Datastores: Aurora (Postgres), Redshift, dbt

Streaming workflows: Kafka, Flink, Airflow, Tempora…