Staff Software Engineer, Backend

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.

Responsibilities

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

Requirements

6+ years of experience writing production software.

Live between GMT-8 and GMT-5 (North American timezones)

Nice to have

Public contributions to open source projects

Experience solving complex distributed systems problems.

Experience with Typescript & GraphQL

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.