Senior PHP/Wordpress Developer

Fever; United States; Remote; USD 39,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Bonuses for top performance

Job summary

Fever is the world’s leading tech platform for culture and live entertainment. We are seeking a hands-on engineer to join Fever’s engineering team to help shape the future of our platform and services.

You will own and evolve high-traffic PHP code, contribute to architecture decisions, collaborate with stakeholders, and mentor teammates while delivering production-ready features for thousands of users across browsers and devices.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of WordPress, PHP and Symfony framework.
• Experience creating or modifying WordPress plugins and themes.
• Ability to manage multiple WordPress sites and MySQL databases.
• Proficient business English communication and collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Participate in onboarding, team planning, grooming, and retrospectives.
• Solve complex problems and contribute to architecture design and implementation.
• Develop production-grade PHP code to handle high traffic and product enhancements.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to define and prioritize product development.
• Engage in hackdays or hackathons with other teams and learn the engineering ecosystem.
• Mentor teammates through code reviews, architecture sessions and pairing.

Skills

WordPress

PHP

Symfony framework

WordPress plugins

WordPress themes

MySQL

Cross-browser compatibility

Business English

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 Team

Secret Media Network is a digital media group focused on recommending perfect plans, discovering great places, sharing things to do and relevant breaking news in different cities around the world. Our family is composed of Secret Chicago, Secret LA, Secret NYC, Secret Atlanta, Secret Miami, Secret Toronto, Secret London, Lisboa Secreta, Paris Secret, Madrid Secreto, Barcelona Secreta and more! Through our media outlets we inspire over 60 million people every week to discover the best experiences in their cities. https://secretmedianetwork.com/en/

What would you do at Fever?

During your first month at Fever (Onboarding period)

• Full immersion into our team, participating in team planning, grooming, and retrospectives.
• Familiarization with our tech stack, focusing on the Secret Media Network, CI/CD workflows, and infrastructure.

After 3 months at Fever:

• Proficiency in solving complex problems and taking charge of architecture design and implementation.
• Continual creation of production‑grade PHP code capable of handling high levels of traffic, with a keen eye on functionality and product enhancement.
• Working closely with internal stakeholders to define and prioritize product development
• Collaboration in hackdays or hackathons with other teams, becoming well‑acquainted with the entire engineering department.

In your 6th month at Fever:

• Assume responsibilities for various system components, analyzing user interactions and evolving the platform to meet their needs.
• Participation in launching large scale initiatives, from inception to production.
• Ideating and implementing initiatives to ensure the system performance and reliability
• Mentorship of fellow team members through code reviews, architecture design sessions, and pair programming.
• Engagement in team‑building activities, fostering a cohesive engineering team spirit.

About you

• You’re smart, get stuff done, have great energy, and thrive in a fast paced environment
• Deep knowledge on Wordpress, PHP and Symfony framework.
• You know how to create/modify Wordpress plugins and themes.
• You know how to handle several Wordpress sites.
• You are experienced handling DDBB such as MySQL.
• You have experience working through cross-browser compatibility issues.
• You are highly productive, self‑starter and self‑motivated.
• You comply with defined coding standards.
• You are proficient in business English.

Additional Skills

• Know how to create WP plugins and themes from scratch
• Systems knowledge (Cache, Load balancers, ...)
• Familiar with JIRA

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
• Home office friendly (based in Spain)
• Responsibility from day one and professional and personal growth
• Great work environment with a young, international team of talented people to work with!
• Health insurance and other benefits such as Flexible remuneration with a 100% tax exemption through Cobee.
• English Lessons
• Gympass Membership
• Possibility to receive in advance part of your salary by Payflow.
• Salary range: 35 - 50 k

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!

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