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 +40 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.
Behind the user-friendly iOS and Android apps and webpage that work across the world is the engineering team. We are in charge of creating, developing, improving, and maintaining all Fever services so that more people can have an amazing experience.
About the roleLocation: Spain - Home office friendly.
As a Senior Backend Engineer specializing in high-performance systems, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the backbone of Fever's live-entertainment platform. We're seeking someone with proven software development excellence, a keen eye for code quality, and a drive to get things done right. Join us if you thrive in a fast-paced environment and are excited about pushing the boundaries of what's possible. This is an opportunity to have real impact in a high-growth global category leader.
What will you do at Fever?On your first month in Fever (Onboarding period):
You’ll join a structured onboarding program designed to help you ramp up smoothly. During this period, you will:
- Meet your buddy and team, and get to know Fever’s culture and ways of working.
- Set up your local environment and become familiar with our Python-based stack, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud infrastructure.
- Learn about our architecture and observability tools while contributing small improvements and fixes.
- Have your first code running in production and a clear understanding of our delivery flow and processes.
- By the end of the onboarding, you’ll be ready to join your long-term squad and start contributing to larger initiatives.
After 3 months in Fever:
You’ll be confidently collaborating and delivering at full speed. You will:
- Design and implement end-to-end features within your squad.
- Participate in architectural discussions and propose improvements across our services and APIs.
- Work with event-driven systems and focus on performance, reliability, and scalability.
- Collaborate closely with Product, Data, and other Engineering teams to enhance our platform and developer experience.
On your 6th month in Fever:
You’ll be fully established as a key contributor in your team. You will:
- Take ownership of core components and help evolve their architecture.
- Lead by example through code reviews, design sessions, and mentoring.
- Contribute to best practices in areas like scalability, observability, and system design.
- Drive continuous improvement and have a visible impact on how we build high-performing services at scale.
- Become an expert of your domain, using business context and technical excellence to drive strategic initiatives forward
Must have skills:
- Strong knowledge of building maintainable and scalable code, applying testing driven development and design patterns.
- Strong knowledge of relational databases and SQL, taking it to its limits.
- Proficiency in using Datadog or other similar profiling tools and monitoring systems.
- Proficiency in business English.
Ideally, experience with:
- Python (Django/Flask)
- PostgreSQL and Redis.
- Event streaming platforms such as Kafka or RabbitMQ
- Handling services with high concurrencies and high volume requests.
- AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- 40% discount on all Fever events and experiences.
- Home office friendly - you can be based anywhere in Spain.
- Relocation package for international candidates.
- Responsibility from day one and professional and personal growth.
- Great work environment with a young, diverse team of talented people to work with!
- Health insurance and other benefits such as Flexible remuneration with a 100% tax exemption through Cobee's platform.
- English Lessons.
- Gympass Membership.
- Possibility to receive in advance part of your salary through Payflow.
- Attractive compensation package consisting of base salary and the potential to earn a significant bonus for top performance.
- Base Salary: 50.000 - 65.000EUR
- Total Compensation: 67.500 - 90.000EUR (Including Base, Variable, and Stock Options)
Fever aims to provide the best-fastest possible experience to our candidates. This is how it would look like:
- Talent Interview - 1h: An intro to Fever, our culture and a conversation about your background and experience.
- Engineering Manager Interview - 1h: A deep dive into your technical expertise and your opportunity to ask anything you need to know about your day to day at Fever.
- Technical Assignment: Your opportunity to demonstrate all you know! We would like to receive it back within 3 days.
- Team Interview - 1.5h: A discussion about your proposed solution to the technical challenge and your chance to make sure you know everything you need about Fever.
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
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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.
