Full-Time
Lead Software Engineer
Web, d/f/m
Posted on 10/31/2025
Vivenu
51-200 employees
Full-service ticketing platform for events
No salary listed
Remote in Germany
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- advanced knowledge of React, Next.js, and TypeScript, with expertise in modern frontend frameworks and tools
- strong skills in developing and designing intuitive, visually appealing, and highly scalable UIs, with a focus on consumer-facing applications
- expertise in scalable UI development and component-based architecture
- familiar with frontend security best practices
- deep understanding of building and scaling checkout and payment flows
- being familiar with modern CI/CD workflows and cloud-based infrastructures
- experience in developing products for millions of users
- desire to thrive in fast-paced environments and expertise in building and maintaining highly dynamic applications
- driving the optimization of the sweet spot between Frontend development and design with a hands-on approach and a strong emphasis on UI/UX, and frontend security
- building robust, scalable systems for dynamic applications in a fast-paced environment
- leading and inspiring the web team with a focus on engineering excellence while fostering the growth of individual team members
- actively contributing to development processes while maintaining a strategic view of project goals
- developing and scaling seamless, secure checkout processes designed for millions of users
Vivenu is a unified ticketing platform for planning, marketing, and analyzing event ticket sales. It helps organizers fully own their ticketing operations, giving them control over revenue and customer data and removing tedious workflows. The product works as a full-service platform that lets users create personalized ticket shops, manage all sales channels and contingents in one place, and use analytics to optimize sales. It differentiates itself by prioritizing ownership and control for organizers, consolidating all ticketing tasks into a single system rather than relying on traditional, fragmented platforms, and supporting events from small scale to very large. Its goal is to disrupt the traditional ticketing market by returning power to event organizers and making the ticketing process easier and more effective, so clients can run their events and increase ticket sales.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Series B
Total Funding
$65.4M
Headquarters
Düsseldorf, Germany
Founded
2018
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Perfect Game partnership unifies ticketing for 1.6 million annual tickets across 9,800 events.
- WMT AI dynamic pricing captured 19.4% Stanford Basketball revenue, saving 436 hours.
- $50M Series B from Activant Capital fuels US expansion post-$15M Series A.
What critics are saying
- Ticketmaster's API platform undercuts Vivenu with lower fees via Live Nation leverage.
- StubHub partnership cannibalizes primary sales as resellers undercut prices 20-30%.
- Eventbrite's $200M RocketRez acquisition targets USL and Perfect Game clients directly.
What makes Vivenu unique
- Vivenu grants organizers full revenue and customer data ownership unlike traditional platforms.
- Proprietary hardware integrates scanners and turnstiles for seamless access control.
- API-first platform supports horizontal use across events, conferences, and museums.
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↓ -3%Perfect Game eyes bigger commercial play with vivenu partnership. Home " Perfect Game eyes bigger commercial play with vivenu partnership. By Olivia Perreault 2 hours ago Perfect Game is moving to consolidate its ticketing and commerce operations through a new partnership with vivenu, a deal that could significantly expand the youth baseball giant's ability to monetize its massive event footprint. Announced Friday, the agreement names vivenu as Perfect Game's ticketing and commerce partner, with the platform set to support a more unified digital checkout experience across the organization's sprawling tournament ecosystem. Perfect Game said the move will help bring ticketing, merchandise, access and other purchases into a single mobile-friendly flow, while giving the company a stronger view of fan behavior and spending across its events. That matters at scale. Perfect Game says it sells 1.6 million tickets annually and operates 9,800 events across more than 40 states, making it one of the most expansive youth sports platforms in the country. The organization also claims deep influence on the baseball talent pipeline, noting that it has produced more than 2,200 MLB alumni and that 95% of all MLB draft picks have come through its system. The partnership is about more than ticketing. Perfect Game and vivenu say the longer-term vision includes bringing registration, travel packages and subscriptions into the same platform, creating a more centralized commercial engine around the thousands of youth baseball and softball events the company runs each year. For Perfect Game, that could mean a cleaner way to manage revenue across its business while also turning audience data into a more valuable sponsorship asset. With families, players and fans engaging across thousands of tournaments, the company sees an opportunity to offer brands more targeted access to a large and highly engaged amateur sports audience. "Perfect Game has always been focused on delivering the best possible experience for our players, families and partners, and this partnership with vivenu is a major step forward in how we support that mission," Perfect Game CEO Rob Ponger said in a press release. "By bringing our ticketing and broader commerce operations into one streamlined, digital platform, we're not only making things easier and more convenient for our audience, but also unlocking new opportunities to better understand and engage with them." He added that as Perfect Game continues to grow, "having a scalable, data-driven solution like vivenu in place will be critical to maximizing the value of every event across our entire ecosystem." vivenu framed the deal as a major infrastructure win in the youth sports space. "Perfect Game is in a category of its own," Travis Smith, Regional Vice President for Sports and College Partnerships at vivenu, noted in a statement. "The organization has shaped professional baseball for decades. The fan relationships and athlete data built across nearly 10,000 annual events are a genuine business asset. Our job is to give them the infrastructure to capture more of the value they already create, starting with ticketing and expanding across the full commercial picture." The deal reflects a broader trend across sports and live events, where ticketing platforms are increasingly being positioned not just as sales tools, but as full-scale commerce and data systems. For Perfect Game, the upside is clear: more control over the fan transaction, more visibility into customer behavior and more ways to generate revenue across one of the busiest event networks in amateur athletics.
WMT and Vivenu's AI-driven dynamic pricing delivers 19.4% of Stanford Basketball ticket revenue. WMT Digital and Vivenu's AI-powered dynamic pricing engine has proved to be a success for Stanford Basketball, capturing 19.4% of ticket revenue. By integrating WMT AI Ticketing's pricing technology with Vivenu's API-first ticketing platform, Stanford Athletics has moved beyond legacy static pricing models to a real-time demand-response system that optimises seat value and operational efficiency. In addition to basketball, the technology also accounted for 12% of total ticket revenue for Stanford's American football programme, while saving a total of 436 hours of manual pricing work across the two sports. This transformation addresses the industry-wide shift toward data-driven revenue management in live entertainment. "The success at Stanford shows the power of acting on real-time demand signals," said Chris Freet, chief strategy officer at WMT Digital. "For years, ticketing was rigid. This collaboration proves that when you provide programs with API-first technology to price every seat intelligently, you unlock significant hidden value while freeing staff to focus on strategy rather than data entry." The combined system delivers real-time intelligence via APIs to ensure every sale, demand signal, and inventory update flows instantly into WMT's AI pricing model to capitalise on every opportunity. Tickets are also priced based on actual market conditions, creating value where static blocks once left money on the table. The partnership is said to establish a new benchmark for revenue management in the sports industry. Historically, athletic departments relied on "price scales", large blocks of seats with fixed prices, that failed to capture market demand fluctuations. By adopting an automated, AI-driven approach, organisations can now maximise yield on high-demand inventory, meet attendance goals and eliminate hundreds of hours of manual administrative labour. "Dynamic pricing only works if the underlying infrastructure can support real-time decisioning at scale," said Keal Blache, vice-president of global partnerships and strategy at Vivenu. "By combining WMT's pricing intelligence with our API-first platform, organisations like Stanford can move from static ticketing to a connected system where pricing, distribution, and fan access are always optimised. "This partnership is about giving organisers the tools to act on demand as it happens."
Vivenu, StubHub unlock Open Distribution with new partnership. Primary ticketing solution Vivenu has agreed a strategic partnership with ticket marketplace StubHub designed to foster Open Distribution, and allow rights holders and event organisers to 'dual-broadcast' or list primary inventory on secondary markets with real-time synchronisation. Typically, ticket-sellers would manually allocate separate ticket 'buckets' to different platforms, creating operational silos and limiting market reach. Vivenu's partnership with StubHub will eliminate these boundaries through a robust distribution API that ensures each seat is available everywhere at once. When a ticket is subsequently purchased via Vivenu or StubHub, it is removed across all other connected channels, including the organiser's primary shop powered by Vivenu. "Our mission is to put ticket-sellers first by giving them the tools to be masters of their own house," said Simon Hennes, chief executive of Vivenu. "By partnering with StubHub, we are liberating event organisers from the manual burden of inventory allocation. You should be able to sell your tickets wherever your ticket buyers are, with the peace of mind that your data and operations remain under your total control." The partnership will result in maximum visibility for brands and organisers, as well as a frictionless experience for fans. The integration has been designed for high-velocity environments, where speed and reliability are non-negotiable. "By connecting Vivenu's primary ticketing infrastructure directly to StubHub's marketplace of over 125 million fans across 200+ countries, we're giving every organiser on their platform the ability to distribute tickets on their own terms, at zero cost and with no exclusivity," added Shaun Stewart, vice president of Open Distribution at StubHub. "This is what Open Distribution is about: giving organisers real choice in how and where they sell, and making sure fans have more ways to access the events they love."
United Soccer League expands partnership with Vivenu. The United Soccer League (USL) has expanded its partnership with Vivenu, naming the business as an official ticketing partner to support clubs across its professional league ecosystem. Vivenu's partnership with USL already supports nearly 70 clubs across USL Premier, the Gainbridge Super League, USL Championship and USL League One. Additional organisations such as AC Boise, Portland Hearts of Pine, Charlotte Independence and Carolina Ascent FC have also made the shift to Vivenu technology. Vivenu helps connect insights across the league's network, allowing participating clubs to learn from one another and replicate successful strategies in different markets. With the sport's growth expected to be boosted by the upcoming FIFA World Cup 2026, which is being hosted by the US, Mexico and Canada this summer, the USL is focusing on its long-term future. Recent announcements include the USL Premier, which would supersede the USL Championship as the top league for men, employing a promotion and relegation system. While Major League Soccer is considered to be the top professional league for men, the aim is for USL Premier to act as a rival top-flight division. The developments require ticketing to remain reliable at scale, while also supporting clubs' ability to deliver a stronger fan experience. Community-anchored sports "The USL is building a blueprint for the future of community-anchored sports in America," said Travis Smith, regional vice president for sports and college partnerships at Vivenu. "With scalable infrastructure, USL clubs can transform ticketing into a strategic business asset. We are proud to support the league and its clubs in elevating fan experiences and unlocking growth across their ecosystem." Josh Keller, USL's executive vice president of corporate development, added: "Making the ticketing process simple and seamless is essential for our clubs to deliver a positive fan experience. "Vivenu provides our clubs with customised and tailored ticketing solutions that reflect their unique brands while gaining meaningful insights into their fans' journeys. We're excited to grow our partnership with Vivenu and bring its unified platform to clubs across the USL ecosystem." Last week, Vivenu announced that it had partnered with Miami FC as it prepares to move into the Sports Performance Hub, which is scheduled to open Phase 1 in 2027. The 10,000-seat venue is designed as a multi-purpose destination for South Florida, capable of hosting everything from professional matches to concerts and large-scale community events.
Tech stack: Vivenu, Tixbase and more... Our weekly tech round-up from the world of ticketing and associated industries... Mobile Dashboard Vivenu has launched a mobile dashboard for iOS, offering event organisers full operational power from any corner of their venue. The interface will enable teams to monitor live sales, resolve entry fiction, and access data insights from their mobile device. "Data is only useful if you can act on it." says Jens Teichert, chief technology officer at Vivenu. "We built the Mobile Dashboard so you can stay where the action is while still having the power to solve problems in real-time. It's about keeping you in control, right from your phone, wherever you're needed most." Footballing upgrades English League One football club Reading has upgraded its ticketing system, with the goal of enhancing the purchasing experience for supporters. Elsewhere, fellow League One club Doncaster Rovers will introduce a refreshed ticketing website for its supporters. The side has worked in partnership with its ticketing provider SeatGeek. Refund protection Ticket Monkey has selected TicketPlan as its ticket refund protection provider. Ticket Monkey was built to be a user-friendly platform to purchase tickets for live music events. Tixbase x Passo Tixbase has announced it has gone live with Passo. In a LinkedIn post, Tixbase founder Emil R. Ljesnjanin said: "Türkiye's largest ticketing platform is now minting tickets on-chain. Over a year of relentless execution, integrations, security reviews, stress testing at scale, breaking things, fixing them, and rebuilding them stronger." Access control for everyday Accredit Solutions, a provider of accreditation and access-management technology for sporting, entertainment and high-security venues, has launched Accredit Visit. The new solution will bring event-grade security and access control to everyday operations, not just event days. Accredit Visit is a purpose-built visitor and contractor management system designed to extend the operational control of high-stakes events into everyday stadium and venue visitor management.