Staff Software Engineer, Ticketing

Are you ready to architect end-to-end systems that power millions of fan moments across web, mobile and backend services?

Join Playon as a Staff Software Engineer on our Ticketing team and lead the evolution of our platform that spans digital ticket purchase, redemption, point-of-sale, and event-management experiences in the high-school and youth sports space.

You’ll drive system-level thinking across web and mobile apps (React/React Native), backend microservices (Java Spring Boot), and orchestration/infrastructure (AWS, Kafka, Postgres, Snowflake), owning the vision and delivery of critical flows that scale and perform when it matters most.

In this role you’ll partner with staff and senior engineers across our Shared Services and Fintech teams, define the roadmap for ticketing technology, lead proofs-of-concept for high-impact initiatives, and mentor engineering teams across full-stack domains. You’ll own complex integrations (e.g., payments, third-party hardware, reserved seating), solve performance bottlenecks under peak loads, and shape the technical direction of our ticketing services within the broader PlayOn ecosystem.

The outcomes you’ll deliver

· End-to-end platform impact: Lead the design and delivery of cross-surface systems (backend services, web apps, mobile apps) for ticket purchase, event creation, redemption and reporting, ensuring low-latency, high-throughput and high-availability for peak events.

· Business growth & reliability: Improve key metrics such as ticket conversion rate, purchase latency, retention, customer NPS for ticketing, and event success, while reducing error budgets and incidents.

· Strategic technical maturity: Define and drive the roadmap for ticketing systems — modernizing our stack (React/React Native, Java Spring Boot APIs, AWS), enhancing our existing products, and integrating new verticals (youth sports tournaments).

· Cross-team leverage & standardization: Build scalable, reusable solutions that influence architecture and technical standards beyond the ticketing team.