Staff Backend Software Engineer for B2B music industry products. Designing and implementing backend systems with a focus on scalability and performance.
Responsibilities
Architect & Design: Lead the design of scalable, complex systems that align with the company's technical roadmap and ensure high availability and performance.
Lead & Drive: Lead cross-functional teams on large technical projects from inception to delivery, ensuring alignment with both technical and business objectives.
Mentor & Grow: Provide mentorship to senior engineers and emerging technical leaders, fostering a culture of continuous learning and technical excellence.
Influence: Shape the company’s technical direction by influencing architectural decisions, technology choices, and engineering practices across teams.
Align: Ensure technical alignment across multiple teams, coordinating with engineering leaders to maintain consistency and shared technical direction.
Solve: Take ownership of solving the most complex technical challenges, ensuring system scalability, reliability, and performance optimization.
Document & Communicate: Clearly document architectural decisions and communicate them to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Strategize: Contribute to the company’s technical strategy, influencing the roadmap and long-term technical vision.
Innovate: Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies, proposing new tools, frameworks, and methodologies that can benefit the organization.
Requirements
Experience:
7+ years of hands-on experience in designing and scaling complex software systems in production environments.
Extensive experience with system design and architecture, ensuring scalability, performance, and maintainability.
Strong experience with modern Web Development Frameworks (e.g., Django, FastAPI, Ruby on Rails, Spring, ExpressJS).
Expertise in object-oriented development (e.g., Python, Ruby, Java, C#).
Advanced proficiency in SQL and relational databases (preferably PostgreSQL).
Leadership & Mentorship:
Proven experience leading technical teams and mentoring engineers across multiple levels.
Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and collaborating with product, design, and other engineering teams.
Technical Expertise:
Deep understanding of software architecture patterns (e.g., microservices, event-driven architecture, CQRS).
Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure) and distributed systems.
Experience with DevOps practices and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
Strong understanding of software development best practices, including CI/CD pipelines, TDD, auto-scaling and observability.
Skills:
Strong strategic thinking with the ability to influence at both the team and organizational levels.
Excellent communication and presentation skills, capable of articulating complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
Proven track record of solving large-scale technical challenges in a production environment.
Ability to work across teams to ensure technical alignment and cross-functional collaboration.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a focus on high-level architecture and system-wide performance.
Nice to Have
Expertise with cloud-native architectures and services (serverless, containers, microservices).
Experience with ElasticSearch and data-intensive applications.
Proficiency in asynchronous programming and high-performance, low-latency systems.
Experience in developing real-time systems or working with streaming data pipelines.
Passion for mentoring and building high-performance technical teams.
Love for music and understanding of the music industry’s technical challenges.
Benefits
💰 Competitive salary package and participation in our Stock Options plan****
🏠 Hybrid work model with flexibility to support your lifestyle****
🏥 Comprehensive private health and life insurance coverage****
🌴 Extra paid time off to recharge and take care of yourself****
💻 The latest tech equipment to support your productivity and creativity****
🌍 A collaborative, inclusive, and international work environment
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