Principal Software Engineer Marketplace

Fever Up
Madrid
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceExperience: 12+ yearsSkills: ["Distributed systems","APIs","Cloud","Observability","Incident management","Search","Recommendations","Checkout","Payments"]

Lead the engineering strategy and organization for Fever’s Marketplace, driving reliability, scalability, and product-driven outcomes across Experience, Checkout, Discoverability, and Post Purchase. Build and mentor a manager-of-managers team, partner with cross-functional leaders, and shape standards for platform quality, release management, and AI-enabled productivity to support high-traffic, global live-entertainment experiences.

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Fever Up
3 months ago

Principal Software Engineer Marketplace

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Job Summary

Lead the engineering strategy and organization for Fever’s Marketplace, driving reliability, scalability, and product-driven outcomes across Experience, Checkout, Discoverability, and Post Purchase. Build and mentor a manager-of-managers team, partner with cross-functional leaders, and shape standards for platform quality, release management, and AI-enabled productivity to support high-traffic, global live-entertainment experiences.
Location: Madrid
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance
Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own the engineering strategy, roadmap delivery, quality bar, reliability, and architectural evolution of Fever’s 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 marketplace’s underlying systems for search and discoverability, pricing and conversion, checkout and payments, post-purchase servicing, and experimentation.

Pay and Benefits

Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:EquityHealth InsuranceHome OfficeEnglish LessonsSpanish Lessons

Key Requirements

  • •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.
Experience:12+ yearsMarketplaceE-commerceConsumer webAI-enabled engineering productivity
Skills:Distributed systemsAPIsCloudObservabilityIncident managementSearchRecommendationsCheckoutPayments
Languages:English
Tech Stack:CloudAPIsDistributed systemsObservabilityPayments

Company Brief

Fever Up
Fever is a global events discovery and ticketing platform that curates and sells experiences, from immersive theatre and pop-ups to concerts and local activities, helping venues and organizers reach audiences worldwide.
Industry: Events & Live Entertainment
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Headquarters: Madrid, Spain
Founded: 2011
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