Head of Engineering, Marketplace

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Were Fever the worlds 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 were 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 Weve 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 lets discuss this role and what you will do to help achieve Fevers mission.

About the role

Fever is the leading global live-entertainment discovery tech platform helping millions ofpeople every week discover and book experiences and inspiring over 300 million peoplelast year across 40 countries. We are hiring a Head of Engineering Marketplace to leadthe engineering strategy delivery scalability and operating model of the platform thatpowers the core purchase funnel of our business. This leader will own the engineeringorganisation across Experience Checkout Discoverability and Post Purchase ensuringFevers marketplace remains fast reliable conversion-optimised and resilient during thehighest-traffic moments in our business.

What You Will Do

• Own the engineering strategy roadmap delivery quality bar reliability and architectural evolution of Fevers Marketplace domain.
• Lead a manager-of-managers organisation and build a high-performing leadership bench across engineering managers staff-plus engineers and senior ICs.
• Partner with Product Design Data Commercial and Operations leaders to improve the full funnel from discovery through booking and post-purchase engagement.
• Raise the bar on traffic resilience and operational excellence including readiness for peaks launches on-sales incident response observability and capacity planning.
• Improve the marketplaces underlying systems for search and discoverability pricing and conversion checkout and payments post-purchase servicing and experimentation.
• Balance short-term growth initiatives with long-term platform health simplifying architecture where helpful and investing where the next bottleneck will emerge.
• Establish clear operating mechanisms: quarterly planning technical review dependency management staffing plans engineering metrics and post-incident learning.
• Help shape company-wide engineering standards in platform quality release management data-informed decision-making and AI-enabled engineering productivity.

About you

Basic Qualifications / Must haves

• Deep seniority: around 12 years in software engineering with substantial experience leading engineering leaders and cross-functional product-facing organisations.
• Proven experience leading multiple teams through managers ideally in a marketplace checkout discovery growth consumer trust or adjacent funnel-heavy domain.
• Strong technical judgment in distributed systems modern cloud infrastructure APIs/ integrations mobile/web product systems observability and incident management.
• Experience owning or partnering deeply on at least two of the following: search/ recommendations checkout/payments risk/fraud/trust retention/lifecycle/post- purchase internationalisation/localisation high-traffic consumer web/mobile.
• Demonstrated ability to translate commercial goals into engineering priorities using metrics experimentation and clear trade-off decisions.
• Track record of improving engineering maturity: planning discipline staffing models quality systems architecture review delivery predictability and leadership development.

Nice to have

• Experience in a category such as ticketing travel e-commerce food delivery gaming commerce consumer fintech or classifieds.
• Experience with search ranking personalisation or recommendation systems.
• Experience with payments refund flows fraud prevention identity or regulated transaction systems.
• Familiarity with AI/ML-enabled product features and with using AI to improve product relevance or engineering productivity.
• Experience supporting global localised consumer products with multiple payment methods regions and traffic patterns.

Benefits & Perks

• Attractive compensation package consisting of base salary and the potential to earn a significant bonus for top performance.
• Stock options.
• Opportunity to have a real impact in a high-growth global category leader
• 40% discount on all Fever events and experiences
• Health insurance
• Flexible remuneration with a 100% tax exemption through Cobee.
• Home office friendly
• English and Spanish Lessons
• Possibility to receive in advance part of your salary by Payflow.