Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Remote. Posted 54 months ago

The role

You will lead technical direction and contribute as an individual contributor to the code base. You will architect projects, design API layers, and improve performance and reliability for music economy tools.

What you will do

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
Act as a player-coach and champion code quality and developer experience
Improve real-time blockchain data pipelines
Collaborate to improve continuous integration, deployment, logging, metrics, and visibility
Develop best practices for backend application development
Mentor and train other engineers on the team

Required qualifications

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

Benefits

Health, mental health, dental, and vision insurance
Remote-first teamwork
Work-from-home/remote office stipend
Team offsites for periodic collaborative strategy sessions in person

About the company

Sound is building a new music economy that values artists and connects fans to the music they love.