Engineering Team Lead, TodayTix
About The Position
TodayTix Group (TTG) is the global e-commerce leader for cultural experiences. TTG is seeking an Engineering Team Lead to join the TodayTix team and own how they build. TodayTix is TTG's flagship consumer product, the mobile app and web experience connecting millions of people with live events. The role involves leading the team that delivers the product end-to-end: native iOS and Android, web and in-app experiences, the backend, and lifecycle messaging. This is a technical leadership role focused on architecture, code review, technical strategy, and cross-functional leadership, with hands-on coding as a minority. The team is in an acceleration phase, focusing on prioritization, raising the engineering bar, and shifting from shipping projects to owning outcomes. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-moving, high-ownership environment, measures impact by the team's success, and values business impact as much as technical craft. This full-time position is based in New York, requiring a minimum of 2 days per week in the office.
Requirements
- A track record of leading engineers. 8+ years building software, including leading a team — formally or informally — and growing the engineers around you.
- Strong architecture and code review. Set technical direction and strategy through sound system design and give code review that makes engineers better, spotting risk and design flaws before they ship.
- Full-stack technical judgment. Deep enough knowledge across mobile, web, and backend to review across the stack and evaluate what your team builds.
- Deep iOS expertise. Built and shipped production iOS apps with real depth (Swift/SwiftUI) — with solid Android (Kotlin/Jetpack) alongside.
- Stakeholder management and expectation setting. Partner cross-functionally with product, design, marketing, and partners — communicating trade-offs and keeping everyone aligned as priorities shift.
- A product and business mindset. Prioritize business objectives and measure success by value delivered — what moves the metrics — not by raw output or precise task estimates.
- Prioritization in a high-demand environment. Triage competing requests, sequence against capacity, and say no well.
- High-traffic product sense. Worked on consumer products at scale (e-commerce or similarly demanding), and care about performance, reliability, and the customer experience.
- AI fluency, clear written communication, and a collaborative default. Share context freely and disagree-and-commit when it's time to move.
Nice To Haves
- Hands-on experience with React / Next.js for the web and webview surfaces.
- Experience designing and building REST/GraphQL APIs (we use Node, Python, and Java/Groovy on the backend).
- Experience with CDP and lifecycle-messaging / marketing-automation platforms.
- Experience with cross-platform tooling (React Native or Kotlin Multiplatform).
- Experience with mobile CI/CD and release automation (Fastlane, phased rollouts, feature flags).
- Background in ticketing, live events, payments, or complex third-party integrations.
- Experience with observability and crash reporting tooling (Datadog, Crashlytics, or similar).
Responsibilities
- Own delivery end-to-end across the team's full surface — mobile, web, and backend — and the business outcomes it drives.
- Partner closely with product, design, and growth — bring engineering reality into roadmaps early and evaluate UI/UX for the customer and the business, not just function.
- Run intake and prioritization: sequence work against business objectives, keep concurrent projects on track, and set realistic commitments — what ships, what waits, and why.
- Start big bets small: ship the thinnest slice that proves the idea, and grow it only on evidence.
- Lead and grow the team — 1:1s, feedback, and career development.
- Protect quality systematically — SLOs as guardrails, feature work balanced against maintenance, rigorous code review, and a release pipeline that catches regressions before customers do.
- Set technical direction and architecture — scope cross-stack features to land as one coherent change, and pressure-test plans for risk before the team commits.
- Build the factory, not just the product: embed AI and data into how the team works, so everyone ships faster, learns from every release, and stays pointed at impact.
Benefits
- Hybrid work environment (blend of in-office and at-home days)
- Up to 4 weeks per year of flexible 'work from anywhere'
- Healthcare, vision, and dental plans, with generous contributions from the company
- Life and disability insurance
- Paid Parental Leave
- Generous 401(k) Matching
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Free membership to One Medical Group & Employee Assistance Program
- Annual Professional Growth Budget
- Employee donation matching
- Employee Referral Program
- Pre-Tax Flexible healthcare spending account (FSA), Dependent Care FSA and Commuter Benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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