Hey there!
We’re Fever, the world’s leading tech platform for culture and live entertainment.
Our mission? To democratize access to culture and entertainment. With our proprietary cutting-edge technology and data-driven approach, we’re revolutionizing the way people engage with live entertainment.
Every month, our platform inspires over 300 million people in +55 countries (and counting) to discover unforgettable experiences while also empowering event creators with our data and technology, helping them scale, innovate, and enhance their events to reach new audiences.
Our results? We’ve teamed up with major industry leaders like Netflix, F.C. Barcelona, and Primavera Sound, presented international award-winning experiences, and are backed by several leading global investors! Impressive, right?
To achieve our mission, we are looking for bar-raisers with a hands-on mindset who are eager to help shape the future of entertainment!
Ready to be part of the experience?
Now, let’s discuss this role and what you will do to help achieve Fever’s mission.
What are we looking for:
We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer (PHP) who loves solving complex problems, designing resilient systems, and building reliable services that handle real traffic at scale. If you thrive in distributed environments, care deeply about code quality, and enjoy working with event-driven architectures, you’ll feel right at home at Fever.
You will work on the backend systems that power large-scale experiences, payments, reconciliation processes and high-traffic flows used by millions of users worldwide 🌍.
What would you do at Fever?
On your first month in Fever:
- Get fully onboarded into Fever’s engineering culture, our architecture, and our technical stack (PHP 8, microservices, Docker, AWS, CI/CD).
- Work closely with your team in plannings, groomings and retrospectives.
- Make your first contributions to production systems with several PRs merged.
- Understand and interact with core services: authentication, payments, reconciliation, operational tools.
- Attend one of Fever’s experiences like Candlelight ✨.
After 3 months in Fever:
- Design and implement backend solutions end-to-end: from architecture to production-ready code.
- Develop and maintain high-performance PHP services and APIs following OpenAPI/Swagger contracts.
- Contribute to cross-team projects, architecture discussions and internal engineering initiatives.
- Own monitoring, performance, reliability and observability of the modules you work on (logs, metrics, tracing).
- Collaborate with infra, product, frontend and backend teams in a highly dynamic environment.
On your 6th month in Fever:
- Own and evolve critical parts of Fever’s distributed system architecture.
- Lead the design and implementation of a new microservice from scratch to production.
- Drive improvements in scalability, resiliency, performance and code quality.
- Mentor teammates through code reviews, technical design sessions and pair programming.
- Join team buildings and engineering-wide activities.
Your responsibilities:
- Design, build and maintain backend APIs and services for critical business domains (payments, reconciliation, fiscal automation, logistics).
- Work on high-concurrency systems focusing on stability, resiliency, and traceability.
- Integrate external services with complex and mission-critical logic.
- Participate actively in architectural decisions to ensure scalability and maintainability.
- Implement and improve CI/CD pipelines, automated testing and deployment workflows.
- Use Docker for local and production environments, and AWS services (SQS, Lambdas, CloudWatch, SNS, S3…) for distributed infrastructure.
- Promote engineering excellence through clean code, testing and continuous improvement.
- Collaborate in an agile, cross-functional squad with backend, infra, QA and product.
Must have skills:
- Robust experience building backend systems, especially using PHP 8+.
- Solid experience building and maintaining RESTful APIs at scale.
- Deep understanding of MySQL and PostgreSQL.
- Strong knowledge of microservices, distributed systems, concurrency and event-driven architectures.
- Experience with Docker, CI/CD pipelines and delivering software from dev to production.
- Good technical judgment: you know when to iterate fast and when to reinforce stability.
- Experience with testing and code quality tools (PHPUnit, PHPStan, SonarCloud).
- Excellent command of Git and collaborative development.
- Professional proficiency in English.
It would be a plus if you have experience in:
- Experience with AWS infrastructure (SQS, Lambdas, CloudWatch, ECS/EKS).
- Experience with Redis, caching strategies and message queues like Kafka or RabbitMQ.
- Familiarity with frameworks such as Symfony, Laravel or Slim.
- Observability tools (Datadog or similar).
- Experience handling services with 1,000+ requests/second.
- Background integrating critical external APIs (payments, financial systems).
- Experience working in agile, cross-functional international teams.
- Curiosity, creativity and a proactive mindset.
- Full-time employment (“Relación de dependencia”).
- Competitive compensation.
- OSDE 410.
- English lessons.
- WelHub Membership.
- 40% discount on all Fever experiences.
- Remote-friendly work from anywhere in Argentina.
- Responsibility and impact from day one.
- A fast-growing global environment with international teammates.
- Team buildings and internal events.
Fever aims to provide a fast and transparent experience to our candidates:
- Talent Interview (1h) – Intro to Fever, culture and your background.
- Technical Assignment (3 days) – Your opportunity to showcase your skills.
- Team Interview (2h) – Review of the technical challenge and deeper discussions.
- Engineering Manager Interview (1h) – Final deep dive into technical decision-making and role expectations.
Thank you for considering joining Fever. We cannot wait to learn more about you!
If you want to learn more about us: Fever's Blog | Tech.Eu |TechCrunch
Fever is committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workspace where everyone's background and ideas count. Our main goal is to find the best possible talent regardless of place of birth, racial or ethnic origin, gender, gender identity, religion, opinion, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, marital status, age or caring responsibilities. We encourage everyone to apply!
If you require any kind of accommodation during the selection process please contact our Talent team so we can help you by providing a welcoming and seamless journey.
If you want to know more about how Fever processes your personal data, click here Fever - Candidate Privacy Notice
Skills Required
- Strong knowledge on good practices, testing and design patterns
- Proficient in business English
- Experience with RESTful APIs (implementation and consumption)
- Proven experience in PHP and MySQL databases
- Proven experience in CSS & JavaScript
- Experience with GIT
- Experience with Docker
Fever Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Fever and has not been reviewed or approved by Fever.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellhub fitness access and generous discounts on company-run experiences are consistently highlighted as standout perks. These lifestyle benefits add distinctive value for those who prioritize cultural outings and wellness.
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Flexible Benefits — U.S. postings point to tax-advantaged accounts (HSA/FSA/DCFSA) and commuter benefits, while some markets offer extras like flexible-comp platforms and language classes. Although specifics differ by country and role, the offering extends beyond core basics.
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Parental & Family Support — Job ads outline a structured parental-leave program for both birthing and non-birthing parents with defined paid components. Clear leave design complements broader time-off policies and supports family needs.
Fever Insights
What We Do
Fever is the leading global tech-enabled entertainment discovery platform with a clear mission: to inspire through live entertainment. Our mobile-first marketplace allows both discovery/inspiration and seamless 2-click booking. Fever has also created a media network where our online communities can look for inspiration and local information (Secret Media Network owner of media outlets like Secret NYC, Secret London or Madrid Secreto among others). Fever and its Secret Media Network inspires over 60 million people every month to discover the best experiences in their cities. The preferences expressed by these communities allow us to create new experiences, which we call “Fever Originals”. These are proprietary experiences in which we follow a data-driven content creation strategy, using analytics to understand audiences, develop and optimize new formats. Some successful examples include the “Candlelight Concert Series” attended by over 3 million guests, the Los Angeles based “Stranger Things: The Drive-Into Experience” co-produced with Netflix, or the “Mad Hatter G&T Party”, all launched in multiple cities across the world. Fever is a US company with a team of over 800 people, currently present in more than 80 cities, with offices in many exciting cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, London, Paris, Madrid, Barcelona, or Sydney, and is backed by leading institutional investors, including Rakuten Capital, Accel, and Atresmedia among others. In order to pursue this objective we are looking for bar-raisers, people that want to work hard, have fun, and make history with us. Available for iOS and Android.
