Head of Engineering

The role

The Head of Engineering will lead the engineering strategy, delivery, scalability, and operating model for the platform powering the core purchase funnel. This leader owns the engineering organisation across Experience, Checkout, Discoverability, and Post Purchase.

What you will do

• Own the engineering strategy, roadmap delivery, quality bar, reliability, and architectural evolution of the Marketplace domain.
• Partner with Product, Design, Data, Commercial, and Operations leaders to improve the full funnel.
• Raise the bar on traffic resilience and operational excellence.
• Improve underlying systems for search, pricing, checkout, payments, and post-purchase servicing.
• Balance short-term growth initiatives with long-term platform health.
• Establish operating mechanisms including quarterly planning, technical review, and staffing plans.
• Help shape company-wide engineering standards in platform quality, release management, and AI-enabled productivity.

Required qualifications

• Around 10+ years in software engineering.
• Substantial experience leading engineering leaders and cross-functional, product-facing organisations.
• Proven experience leading multiple teams through managers.
• 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/localisa
• 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

• Base salary and the potential to earn a significant bonus for top performance.
• Stock options.
• 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.

About the company

Fever is a tech platform for culture and live entertainment. The platform inspires over 300 million people in +55 countries to discover experiences.