Senior Backend Engineer

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

Location: Spain

What are we looking for:

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join the engineering 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?

On your first month in Fever:

• You will be fully integrated into the team. You will participate in plannings, groomings and retrospectives of the team, and you will have met the departments of Fever.
• You will get familiar with Fever’s tech stack: frameworks used to develop our applications, CI/CD workflows and infrastructure that support our operations.
• You will have lots of Pull Requests merged and running in production.
• You will attend some of the Fever Original’s experiences like Candlelight.

After 3 months in Fever:

• You will be able to come up with solutions to new difficult problems, defining the solution from the architecture design to its implementation.
• You will continue creating production grade Python code designed to handle high levels of traffic, measuring the outcome of the functionalities and improving the product.
• You will participate in some of the hackdays or hackathons we organise with other teams, and you will mostly know everybody from engineering.

On your 6th month in Fever:

• You will have responsibilities over different parts of the systems, analysing the usage from the users and evolving the platform to meet the user’s needs.
• You will have participated in the launch of one of our new microservices, from 0 to production.
• You will mentor other team members through code reviews, sessions of architecture design and pair programming.
• You will participate in some of the team buildings we organise for your team or the whole engineering team.

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
• Celery with RabbitMQ
• Experience working on agile methodology 
• Event communication between services
• Handling services with more than 1000 request/second.
• AWS, Docker and Kubernetes

Benefits & Perks

• Opportunity to have a real impact in a high-growth global category leader
• 40% discount on all Fever events and experiences
• Home office friendly anywhere in Spain
• Relocation package for international candidates
• Responsibility from day one and professional and personal growth
• Great work environment with a young, international team of talented people to work with!
• Health insurance and other benefits such as Flexible remuneration with a 100% tax exemption through Cobee.
• English Lessons
• Gympass Membership
• Possibility to receive in advance part of your salary by 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)

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.
• 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

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