Lead Software Engineer (Remote, United Kingdom)

About this role

Job Summary
JOB DESCRIPTION – Lead Software Engineer - Pricemaster


Location: Remote, United Kingdom


Division: Ticketmaster UK


Contract Terms: Permanent, 40hours per week


THE JOB
In the role of Lead Software Engineer, you will join the Pricemaster team, focusing on delivering an application that empowers our clients to price their events better. Your role is to lead the development of software solutions that enable efficiency, security, and reliability. You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining robust software solutions that meet business requirements and address emerging security threats.


You will work closely with a variety of stakeholders to ensure seamless integration of software solutions with existing infrastructure services. You’ll also be expected to get up to speed quickly on existing systems and make pragmatic, cost-aware decisions when maintaining or evolving them—prioritizing the most critical issues and delivering improvements iteratively while balancing delivery speed, risk, and long-term maintainability.


What You Will Be Doing

• Ensuring that software is built with robustness, availability, and security risks in mind
• Leading the technical vision and implementing the necessary technical frameworks and libraries that simplify day-to-day feature development
• Designing and implementing automation, monitoring, and infrastructure
• Continuously optimizing services across all layers (infrastructure, platform, software) for high availability, reliability, and performance
• Rapidly building a working mental model of complex, sometimes undocumented systems by analysing runtime behaviour, logs, metrics, traces, data flows, and code paths
• Evaluating options to maintain or evolve existing systems (refactor, re-architect, strangler or incremental replacement, or rewrite) and recommending the most appropriate approach based on impact, risk, and total cost of ownership
• Making pragmatic ...