Staff Software Engineer (Backend)

Sound is hiring a Staff Backend Engineer to build features, design and implement API methods, 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 also contribute to R&D for completely new product lines and experiments.

Responsibilities

• Set direction for the team and help guide engineering vision
• Lead the architecting of important systems and anticipate strategic and scaling-related challenges
• Set up, maintain, and continually improve Sound's core backend infrastructure
• Write robust APIs 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 other engineers on the team

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional software development experience
• Experience building and maintaining a production system at scale
• Experience with GraphQL
• Comfortable with SQL databases
• Ability to write well tested, performant code
• Curiosity to pick up new tools and technologies
• Desire to continually improve code quality and development experience

Nice to have

• Experience working with serverless architecture
• Experience with message queues and caching infrastructure
• Experience working with micro-services
• Understanding of Ethereum, Arweave, IPFS architectures
• Frontend experience (React, Next.js)
• Degree in computer science

Sound's Benefits

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. We believe that a diverse team composed of individuals with different perspectives, lived experiences, and identities is essential to achieving our mission and upending old models of selling and sharing art. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or family status, disability, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are accommodated in the job application and interview process, and in the performance of essential job functions.