Tech Lead

Fever; São Paulo; Hybrid; BRL 350,000 - 700,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and well-being: Private health,

Meal allowance: R$900 per month

Mobility allowance: R$280 per month

Wellness benefits: Wellhub membership

Exclusive Fever experiences: 40% off

Flexible working environment: Home‑off

Language learning opportunities: EN/ES

International team: work with global

Brazilian employment benefits: FGTS +

Candlelight voucher

Job summary

Fever in São Paulo is seeking a Tech Lead to guide the engineering team, shaping scalable systems and resilient architectures for high-traffic production. You will mentor engineers, drive architecture decisions, and partner with business stakeholders to deliver impactful features.

The role emphasizes hands-on Python development, clean code, and end-to-end technical leadership, with a flexible, home-office-friendly setup and a central São Paulo office.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on software engineering with focus on code quality and architecture.
• Experience designing, building, and scaling distributed systems in high-traffic environments.
• Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging systems.
• Concurrency, asynchronous processing, resilience, fault tolerance knowledge.
• Relational databases, SQL, RESTful APIs, and performance optimization.
• Experience leading technical initiatives end-to-end.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering development for a product team and mentor engineers.
• Plan and execute strategies to support future architecture requirements.
• Improve team processes and drive architectural decisions.
• Develop production-grade Python code handling high traffic.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.

Skills

Software engineering

Distributed systems

Event-driven architectures

Concurrency & resilience

Relational databases & REST APIs

Architectural leadership

Mentoring engineers

Code reviews

English proficiency

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Kafka

RabbitMQ

PostgreSQL

Redis

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

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.

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 Tech Lead to join Fever 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.

• Lead engineering development for a product team.
• You have strong opinions, weakly held
• Plan and execute strategies to enable the architecture to support future requirements
• Contribute to improve team’s processes
• Mentor other experienced engineers

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, refinement 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.
• You will have led ambitious initiatives to bring our vision to reality

About You

Must-have skills:

• Strong hands‑on software engineering experience, with a solid understanding of clean code, testing, design patterns, and software architecture.
• Proven experience designing, building, and scaling distributed systems and microservices in high‑traffic production environments.
• Experience with event‑driven architectures and messaging systems such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar technologies.
• Strong understanding of concurrency, asynchronous processing, resilience, fault tolerance, and distributed systems challenges.
• Solid knowledge of relational databases, SQL, RESTful APIs, and performance optimization.
• Experience leading technical initiatives end‑to‑end, from architecture and design to implementation, deployment, and production operation.
• Ability to make architectural decisions, evaluate technical trade‑offs, and drive scalable, maintainable solutions.
• Experience mentoring engineers, providing technical guidance, and raising engineering standards through code reviews and collaboration.
• Strong ownership mindset, with experience improving production reliability, identifying bottlenecks, and resolving complex technical challenges.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate with cross‑functional teams and stakeholders.
• Proficiency in business English.

Nice-to-have skills:

• Python frameworks such as Django or Flask.
• PostgreSQL and Redis.
• AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation.
• Experience working in agile, product‑oriented engineering teams.

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive compensation package: Attractive base salary, performance‑based bonus, and stock options.
• Health & well‑being: Private health, dental, and life insurance, with Amil coverage 100% paid by Fever.
• Meal allowance: R$900 per month through Swile, fully covered by Fever.
• Mobility allowance: R$280 per month through Swile to support your daily commute.
• Wellness benefits: Wellhub membership covered by Fever up to the Silver plan.
• Exclusive Fever experiences: 40% discount on Fever events and experiences, plus a complimentary Candlelight voucher.
• Flexible working environment: Home‑office‑friendly setup with an office in central São Paulo.
• Language learning opportunities: English and Spanish lessons to support your personal and professional growth.
• International team: Work alongside talented professionals from around the world in a collaborative, multicultural environment.
• Brazilian employment benefits: FGTS contributions, paid vacation with an additional one‑third vacation bonus, and 13th‑month salary, in accordance with Brazilian labor legislation.

About The Process

Fever aims to provide the best and fastest possible experience to our candidates. This is what it would look like:

• Talent Interview - 1h: An intro to Fever, our culture, and a conversation about your background and experience.
• Technical Interview - 2h: A deep dive into your technical expertise through a system design discussion and a short coding exercise, giving you the chance to walk us through your reasoning and problem‑solving approach — and ask us anything about your day‑to‑day at Fever.
• Manager Interview - 1.5h: A conversation about how you communicate context and trade‑offs, own outcomes, quantify impact, and think about reliability, scale, and system design decisions in English.

Thank you for considering joining Fever. We cannot wait to learn more about you!

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