Web Developer

Web Developer

TOUCHING HEARTS CREATING MEMORIES

We are a leading global theater production company producing musicals across Europe, with 16 theaters in the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, France, and Italy, plus offices in the UK. We bring some of the world’s best-known musicals to the stage, developed by international partners and their creative teams, including Disney's The Lion King, MJ the Musical, and Moulin Rouge! The Musical.

We also create our own original productions, such as Anastasia and TINA – The Tina Turner Musical, sharing them worldwide through tours and licensing. We also have our own in-house ticketing system, ensuring a seamless customer experience.

With around 2,000 employees, we are committed to exceptional shows and a welcoming experience for all. If you want to be part of a creative, dynamic team that brings the magic of theater to life worldwide, we’d love to hear from you!

We’re looking for a Web Developer (Full Stack) to help take ownership of, and gradually evolve, the digital platform behind Stage Entertainment’s international ticket sales and customer journey.

Today, our platform is Drupal-based and PHP-driven, hosted in Azure, and used across multiple European markets. This is a living system, not a finished product. Over time, we expect it to evolve toward a more decoupled architecture, potentially including a headless CMS, modern frontend frameworks (such as React or Vue), and changes to backend services where they make clear technical and business sense.

This role suits an engineer who is comfortable working with what exist today, while also contributing to where the platform should go next. Someone who can balance reliability and delivery with thoughtful, incremental modernization.

You’ll work closely with developer, designer, and business stakeholders across markets contributing both to day-to-day delivery and longer-term technical direction.

What you’ll work on first

• Maintain and improve our Drupal-based websites. Focusing on stability, performance, and security across multiple countries.
• Take ownership of existing functionality as responsibility transitions into our internal teams.
• Build reusable, scalable features that work across markets rather than solving the same problem repeatedly.
• Collaborate with other developers, designers, and stakeholders te deliver clear, reliable user experience.
• Improve code quality through testing, code reviews, and documentation.
• Contribute to CI/CD practices and help keep our Azure-hosted environment reliable and predictable.

What you’ll help shape over time

• The gradual move toward a more decoupled platform. Including clearer frontend/backend separation and shared components.
• The introduction of modern frontend technologies. Where they genuinely improve maintainability our user experience.
• Ongoing evaluation of CMS and backend choices. Guided by stability, maintainability, and business impact, not trends.
• Improvements in scalability, observability, and performance. As traffic, personalization, and commercial needs grow.

What we’re looking for

Required

• Experience building and maintaining PHP-based web applications or platforms.
• A solid understanding of web architecture. Including REST API’s, databases, and backend driven websites.
• Experience working in existing or legacy codebases and improving them step by step.
• Comfort working with frontend developers, backend developers, and non-technical stakeholders.
• A mindset focused on ownership, learning, and long-term quality, rather thar quick fixes.

Nice to have (Not required)

• Experience with Drupal or other CMS-driven platforms (monolithic or headless).
• Exposure to frontend framework such as React, Vue or Angular.
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS or similar).
• Familiarity with CI/CD, Docker, or DevOps practices.
• Experience working on e-commerce, ticketing or high traffic consumer platforms.

What success looks like

After 6 months, you:

• Have shipped multiple features or improvements to production.
• Understand how the current platform is structured and how data flows through it.
• Contribute confidently to code reviews and technical discussions.
• Work independently while staying closely connected to the rest of the team.

After 12 months, you:

• Own meaningful parts of the web platform.
• Help reduce dependency on external agencies.
• Contribute actively to architectural and platform decisions.
• Raise the bar for quality, reliability and maintainability across the team.

What does Stage Entertainment offer

• 25 vacation days, 1 D&I day and 2 designated days off from Stage Entertainment.
• Competitive salary in line with the market.
• Good pension scheme and travel allowance.
• Great if you work in the office, but we also offer the opportunity to work partially from home.
• The opportunity to work remotely for two weeks at a destination of your choice.
• We value your personal development, that's why there are plenty of opportunities for training and education.
• Your work makes an impact both Stage Entertainment headquarters and internationally. You will work with diverse, passionate colleagues all over Europe.

Passion connects us: Step into the next STAGE of your career.

Take the stage and let's arrange a meeting to discuss the exciting opportunities that await you here!

Stage Entertainment encourages candidates to apply for this vacancy, even though they don’t fit all qualifications. However, candidates must demonstrate a history of innate curiosity and rapid learning and articulate how skills and experiences are transferable to our company.

Stage Entertainment ensures we are always recruiting a diverse mix of colleagues who are representative of the diverse audiences we attract. In doing so, we have access to a broad range of ideas, perspectives and insights that allow us to touch hearts and create memories. Please find more information about our DE&I initiatives: DEI | Stage Entertainment (stage-entertainment.com)