Sound is hiring a Staff Backend Engineer to help shape the future of a new music economy that values artists and their music while connecting fans more closely to the music they love.
As Staff Backend Engineer, you will lead technical direction for our engineering team while contributing as an individual contributor to our code base. You will architect and drive new projects, design and implement API layers, and improve our performance and reliability as we rapidly scale our product and organization. This includes our core song and artist pages for listening parties, web3 economic tools (NFTs, splits), community management tools, governance and membership tools to empower the next wave of crypto-native artists and their communities. You will be involved in product decisions and have a direct impact on the end user experience.
Set the technical direction for the team and help guide engineering vision
Lead the architecting of important systems and anticipate strategic and scaling-related challenges
Design, build, and continually improve Sound's core backend infrastructure
Develop a robust product-focused API layer used by front-end developers and eventually external developers building on top of Sound
Act as a player-coach and champion code quality & developer experience
Improve our real-time blockchain data pipelines
Collaborate to improve continuous integration, deployment, logging, metrics, and visibility into service/site health
Develop best practices for backend application development
Mentor and train other engineers on the team
6+ years of experience writing production software.
Live between GMT-8 and GMT-5 (North American timezones)
Public contributions to open source projects
Experience solving complex distributed systems problems.
Experience with Typescript & GraphQL
Our vision for the future is ambitious: we want to honor the value of music by giving a million artists the opportunity to live off their music. Here are some of our benefits:
We offer top-of-the-line benefits, including health, mental health, dental, and vision insurance.
Remote-first teamwork with team and community members around the world
Work-from-home/remote office stipend
Team offsites for periodic collaborative strategy sessions in person
Passionate, supportive team dedicated to learning and growing together in web3
Sound is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity, and welcome people from a variety of backgrounds, ethnicities, cultures, perspectives, experiences, and skill sets. As part of our commitment to equality, we work to ensure a fair and consistent interview process, and continue to promote an inclusive work environment.
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