Head of Engineering, Marketplace
Core
Lead engineering strategy, delivery, and scalability for Fever's marketplace platform powering the core purchase funnel for live entertainment discovery and booking.
Role type
Head of Engineering, Marketplace
Builds
A global marketplace for live entertainment experiences (tickets, events) serving 300M+ users across 55+ countries.
Domain
Live entertainment technology, consumer marketplace, high-traffic e-commerce.
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Distributed systems architecture, cloud infrastructure, API integrations, incident management, traffic resilience, search/recommendation systems, checkout/payments, risk/fraud prevention, internationalization, engineering leadership, cross-functional partnership.
Preferred skills
Ticketing/travel/e-commerce domain experience, AI/ML product features, global consumer product scaling.
Technologies
Cloud infrastructure, APIs, observability tools, search/ranking engines, payment gateways.
Responsibilities
Own engineering strategy and roadmap for the marketplace domain; partner with Product, Design, and Commercial leaders to optimize the full funnel; ensure traffic resilience and operational excellence during peak moments; improve underlying systems for search, pricing, checkout, and post-purchase; balance short-term growth with long-term platform health; establish operating mechanisms for planning, staffing, and metrics.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with substantial leadership experience (12+ years).