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 visionLead the architecting of important systems and anticipate strategic and scaling-related challengesDesign, build, and continually improve Sound's core backend infrastructureDevelop a robust product-focused API layer used by front-end developers and eventually external developers building on top of SoundAct as a player-coach and champion code quality & developer experienceImprove our real-time blockchain data pipelinesCollaborate to improve continuous integration, deployment, logging, metrics, and visibility into service/site healthDevelop best practices for backend application developmentMentor and train other engineers on the teamRequirements

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 projectsExperience solving complex distributed systems problems.Experience with Typescript & GraphQL

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