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StubHub

Connects fans with tickets to live events

Senior Software Engineer - Buyer Pricing

Backend EngineeringPosted on Nov 10
Full-timeNew York, NY, USA

About the Job

Requirements

  • A Bachelor's degree or U.S. equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, plus 5 years of professional experience as a Software Engineer, Software Developer, or in a position involving designing and maintaining software platforms and pricing systems; alternatively, a Master's degree or U.S. equivalent in those fields, plus 3 years of such professional experience.
  • At least 3 years of professional experience designing and developing large-scale, low-latency pricing or revenue-optimization systems that compute real-time ticket prices in high-volume transactional environments.
  • At least 3 years of professional experience implementing observability and reliability frameworks for pricing services, including tracing and real-time anomaly detection.
  • At least 3 years of professional experience architecting and maintaining pricing experimentation platforms, including executing A/B tests at scale, developing user cohort logic, and automated experiment evaluation.
  • At least 3 years of professional experience developing API contracts or event-driven systems that integrate pricing decisions with checkout and catalog platforms.
  • At least 3 years of professional experience collaborating with Product, Data Science, and Analytics stakeholders to translate pricing strategy into measurable technical outcomes that improve marketplace liquidity.

Responsibilities

  • Architect scalable, low-latency pricing systems that support real-time decision-making and experimentation.
  • Collaborate with Data Science to deploy, operate, and maintain pricing models and experimentation frameworks in production.
  • Establish and maintain service level objectives (SLOs) to ensure reliability, performance, and operational excellence of pricing services.
  • Implement data instrumentation processes to ensure accuracy, traceability, and visibility across pricing workflows.
  • Assess and integrate new technologies that improve experimentation capabilities, operational efficiency, and system performance.
  • Contribute to pricing governance for buyer-facing price determination, including documented decision policies, approval thresholds, and change-management controls for pricing logic and experiments.
  • Develop self-serve tooling, including guard-railed configuration, experiment templates, observability dashboards, and runbooks, enabling Product and Analytics to safely run initiatives with reduced engineering effort.
  • Design and implement buyer pricing what-if simulation capabilities to assess counterfactual scenarios and quantify financial and behavioral impact before production rollout.

About the Company

StubHub

Connects fans with tickets to live events

StubHub runs an online marketplace where fans around the world buy and sell tickets to concerts, sports, theater and other live events. Its North American StubHub brand and international viagogo brand connect buyers with both individual ticket holders and professional sellers. Fans browse events, compare available seats and prices, and buy tickets through the website or mobile app, while sellers set their own prices. The company collects transaction fees and backs purchases with its FanProtect guarantee, which covers problems such as invalid tickets or canceled events under its terms. StubHub began in 2000 and is headquartered in New York City.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
New York, NY
Founded
2000

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