Backend PHP Engineer

The Festicket Group family is a truly international team with 100+ people from over 20 different countries, all passionate about changing the face of live event experiences. Our head office is in Camden, London with a remote workforce distributed across Leeds, Berlin, Amsterdam, Porto, Nantes, Denver and Australia. 

Since 2012, we have provided a seamless service to discover and book tickets and travel packages for music festivals worldwide. The platform offers an end-to-end experience for music travellers, an efficient two-sided marketplace for 1,500+ music festivals across 40 different countries, and a network of 5,000 suppliers for accommodation & travel packages. In eight short years, we have become Europe's largest music festival platform. 

Since our acquisition in 2019 of the multi-award winning cashless POS platform Event Genius and the associated Ticket Arena consumer website and brand, we are on track to become the most complete end-to-end live events platform for fans and organisers built to serve any event, any size.

We're now post Series-D funded, and backed by some of Europe's largest VC funds. 

Full details of our stack can be found here.

The role:

• As a senior engineer, you will provide guidance to and collaborate with other backend developers working within our B2B team, responsible for the Event Genius and Ticket Arena products.

Responsabilities:

• Work closely with Product and the other engineers in your team to plan, implement, release and maintain new features and functionality in your product area
• Write good quality, maintainable code that strikes the right balance between technical excellence and delivery of business objectives
• Collaborate with other Backend Engineers on improving our codebase, defining new conventions, making architectural design decisions, paying off technical debt and maximising team productivity
• Maintain our commitment to continuous delivery, automation and quality best practices
• Actively contribute to Agile rituals (stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, retros) to help the team achieve its goals, provide product feedback and technical expertise
• Participate in ensuring the smooth operation of our applications by managing releases and being part of our technical support rota. This is likely 1 day per week and does not currently involve out-of-hours support.

Requirements:

Your skills and knowledge:

• Solid experience as a software engineer in a commercial role, ideally a marketplace or product-lead environment
• Years of experience working with PHP
• Knowledge of SQL, RDBMSs (preferably Postgres) and database design
• Comfortable with the command line and fluent in git
• Experience setting up or working with CI/CD platforms
• Experience with Docker
• Experience with AWS or other cloud platforms would be beneficial
• A computing or software engineering degree isn advantageous but not mandatory
• Experience integrating with 3rd party APIs is beneficial
• Experience working within a fast-paced Agile environment
• Behaviours we expect you to demonstrate in this role:
• Extremely organised and methodical whilst remaining pragmatic
• Collaboration with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• A great communicator who is being open, honest and direct

Additional characteristics we expect our entire team to demonstrate:

• Adaptability and flexibility in the ever-changing world of a scale-up dealing with the challenges of a global pandemic that has hit the live music industry harder than most other sectors
• Intellectual curiosity, and the confidence to ask questions until you understand
• Positivity and a can-do mindset when faced with new opportunities
• Self-motivation and a sense of pride in achieving stretch goals on your own merit
• Comfort receiving and providing constructive criticism, as well as ‘managing upwards’

Benefits:

We’re a team of 100, with our HQ located in the amazing heart of Camden. By joining us you will be part of one of the fastest growing music/travel start-up companies in the world, where you will have ample opportunity for career progression as we continue to grow. ??

• 25 days holiday
• Flexible working from home and remote-working policy
• Eyecare – Discounted eye tests and glasses
• Opportunities to go to selected & partnered music festivals for free & all year round staff discount
• Extra day holiday for your birthday
• Festicket workplace pension
• Long service awards
• Value driven start up culture

Before you apply, please check if any restrictions apply in terms of time zone or country.

This job has a geo-restriction in place: UK Only.