Senior PHP 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 +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.

About the role

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 :