Senior Software Engineer - Java

Fever; Barcelona; Remote; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home office in Spain

Flexible schedule

Health insurance Day 1

40% Fever events discount

Gympass membership

English/Spanish lessons

Payflow salary advances

Job summary

Fever, the leading tech platform for culture and live entertainment, seeks a Senior Java Software Engineer to join a distributed team from Spain. You will focus on building maintainable, scalable services, with emphasis on code quality, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud infrastructure.

The role is fully remote and 100% home office friendly across Spain. You will contribute to architecture, observability, and performance, collaborating with product, data, and other engineering teams to deliver

Qualifications

• Proven ability to build maintainable, scalable Java services with quality testing
• Strong SQL and relational DB skills
• Experience with event streaming platforms (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
• High concurrency and high-volume service handling
• Familiarity with observability with Datadog or similar
• Strong business English communication

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable Java services with emphasis on quality and reliability
• Participate in architectural discussions and drive improvements across services and APIs
• Work with event-driven systems and focus on performance and observability
• Collaborate with Product, Data, and Eng teams to enhance the platform and developer experience

Skills

Code quality

Relational DBs

Event streaming

Concurrency

Monitoring tools

Business English

Tools

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Datadog

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Jenkins

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.

About The Role

Location:

Spain - 100% Home office friendly.

We are looking for a Senior Java Software 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?

• Meet your buddy and team, and get to know Fever’s culture and ways of working.
• Set up your local environment and become familiar with our based stack, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud infrastructure.
• Learn about our architecture and observability tools while contributing small improvements and fixes.
• Have your first code running in production and a clear understanding of our delivery flow and processes.
• By the end of the onboarding, you’ll be ready to join your long‑term squad and start contributing to larger initiatives.

After 3 months at Fever:

• Design and implement end‑to‑end features within your squad.
• Participate in architectural discussions and propose improvements across our services and APIs.
• Work with event‑driven systems and focus on performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Data, and other Engineering teams to enhance our platform and developer experience.

By your 6th month at Fever:

• Take ownership of core components and help evolve their architecture.
• Lead by example through code reviews, design sessions, and mentoring.
• Contribute to best practices in areas like scalability, observability, and system design.
• Drive continuous improvement and have a visible impact on how we build high‑performing services at scale.
• Become an expert of your domain, using business context and technical excellence to drive strategic initiatives forward

About You

Must have skills:

• Strong knowledge of building maintainable and scalable code, applying testing driven development and design patterns.
• Strong knowledge of relational databases and SQL, taking it to its limits.
• Event streaming platforms such as Kafka or RabbitMQ
• Handling services with high concurrencies and high volume requests.
• Proficiency in using Datadog or other similar profiling tools and monitoring systems.
• Proficiency in business English.

We use these technologies, so it would be a plus if you have experience in:

• Java (J2EE/ Java 25)
• Spring / Spring Boot frameworks
• REST APIs
• NoSQL databases
• Familiarity with Docker/Kubernetes environments
• Used to working with tools like Git, Jenkins, CI/CD pipeline
• Exposure to Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ or Agile methodologies

Benefits & Perks

• Home office friendly anywhere in Spain
• Flexible schedule
• Opportunity to have a real impact in a high‑growth global category leader
• 40% discount on all Fever events and experiences
• Responsibility from day one and professional and personal growth
• Great work environment, international team of talented people to work with!
• Health insurance from Day 1.
• English or Spanish Lessons
• Gympass Membership
• Cobee (tax free allowance on restaurants and transport).
• Possibility to receive in advance part of your salary by Payflow.

About The Process

• 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.

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

Fever is committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workspace where everyone's background and ideas count. Our main goal is to find the best possible talent regardless of place of birth, racial or ethnic origin, gender, gender identity, religion, opinion, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, marital status, age or caring responsibilities. We encourage everyone to apply!

If you require any kind of accommodation during the selection process please contact our Talent team so we can help you by providing a welcoming and seamless journey.

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