Tech Lead

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 knowledge on good practices, testing and design patterns.
• Knowledge of relational databases. Internals and data-intensive.
• Experience on distributed systems, network communication, scalability and resilience.
• You know how to deliver code from development to production.
• You embrace a culture of full ownership.
• You are proficient in business English.
• Understanding how to deliver the best engineering solutions.
• Know what makes phenomenal product experiences.
• Welcome and embrace change and the capability to adapt to new contexts quickly.
• Willingness to improve yourself and your team.

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

• Django/Flask
• PostgreSQL
• Redis
• Celery with RabbitMQ
• Experience working on agile methodology 
• Event communication between services
• Handling services with more than 1000 request/second.
• AWS, Docker and Kubernetes

Benefits & Perks

• FGTS Protection: Monthly contributions to your Length-of-Service Guarantee Fund, building a safety net for your future.
• 40% discount on all Fever events and experiences + free Candlelight voucher.
• Private health, life & dental insurance: Amil coverage 100% paid by Fever.
• Swile Meal Card: R$900 monthly for food and dining, 100% paid by Fever.
• Swile Mobility: R$280 monthly allowance for seamless commuting and transportation.
• Wellhub membership for gym and wellness access: paid by Fever up to the Silver plan.
• Vacation Bonus: An extra financial boost to help you recharge and enjoy your time off.
• Home office friendly with a central Sao Paulo office location.
• Language learning support: English and Spanish lessons.
• Dynamic international team: a young, talented group creating a great work environment.
• Attractive compensation package consisting of base salary and the potential to earn a significant bonus for top performance. (Including Base, Variable, and Stock Options).

About the process

Fever aims to provide the best and fastest possible experience to our candidates. This is how 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.