Senior Backend Engineer at Fever

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 role

What are we looking for:

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join the backend team with outstanding software development talent proven by great work results/experience. Somebody that cares about code quality and not just get things done, but get things done right.

If you're smart, have great energy, can't think about a system without a CI/CD pipeline and you want to thrive in a fast paced environment, we are in sync.

What would you do at Fever?

During your first month at 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 at 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.

By your 6th month at 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

About you

Must have skills:

Strong knowledge on good practices, testing and design patterns
You are proficient in business English
You know how to deliver code from development to production
Experience with RESTful APIs (implementation and consumption)
Knowledge of relational databases and SQL

We use these technologies, so it would be a plus if you have experience in:

Django/Flask
PostgreSQL
Redis
Experience with event streaming platforms such as Kafka or RabbitMQ
Experience working on agile methodology
Event communication between services
Handling services with more than 1000 request/second.
AWS, Docker and Kubernetes

Benefits & Perks

Fever 40% discount: This discount is for personal use only
Free Candlelight Event: This voucher is for single use only and valid for 2 people
Wellhub Membership: Wellhub gives employees unlimited access to a selected number of gyms, studios, classes, training, and wellness apps. It is paid by Fever up to the Silver plan
Medical insurance: Fever offers “Seguro de Gastos Médicos Mayores” with the company GNP free of charge as it is covered 100% by Fever. This also includes dental and vision insurance fully paid by Fever
Life Insurance (Mapfre): We offer this insurance fully paid by Fever
Savings plan (SURA): The employee contributes 5% of the fixed salary and Fever contributes with another 5%
English Lessons: Provided by Babelia, 100% paid by Fever
Aguinaldo: 15 days of salary
20 days of paid vacation per year, which you can access after at least six months working with Fever
Parental leave: Fever provides four (4) weeks of mandatory paid paternity leave, receiving 100% of the base salary, for (male) parents (both birthing and non-birthing)
You can enjoy the afternoon off on your birthday if it falls on a working day. It’s our way of helping you celebrate!

About the process
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.

Technical Assignment: Your opportunity to demonstrate all you know! We would like to receive it back within 3 days.

Team Interview - 2h: A discussion about your proposed solution to the technical challenge and your chance to make sure you know everything you need about Fever.

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.

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.

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