Senior Backend Software Engineer, Output
$120-180k
Creative software platform for music makers
Job no longer available
Creative software platform for music makers
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$120-180k
21-100 employees
Company mission
To give music producers all the tools they need to create amazing new music, sounds, and reach new inspiration.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate will have deep experience as a backend software engineer ranging from distributed systems and micro-services architecture to CICD, Devops and software engineering best practices
- This candidate will also have experience rebuilding backend stacks while ‘the plane is in flight’
- We’re looking for someone who has intrinsic motivation, is detail-oriented, technically savvy, and energized to chart the course for our Discovery future tech platform capabilities roadmap
- 6+ years experience delivering impactful, high-quality backend software applications for large scale production systems
- Experience and exposure to backend architectural patterns, technologies, frameworks, languages and tools. Tendency towards micro-services architecture when appropriate
- Solid Devops background and high value placed on uptime of production systems highly preferred
- Experience with the following technologies, frameworks, languages and tools -
- RESTful services, API design best practices, distributed systems, micro services, GraphQL and other architectural patterns
- Developing and maintaining restful services in NodeJS, Python, Ruby, etc
- Database technologies such as MySQL, Postgres, NoSQL, etc
- Configuring and using cloud hosted infrastructure like GCP, Heroku, or AWS
- Test driven development including unit, integration and regression testing and automation for backend services and APIs (Datadog, RUM, synthetics, dashboards, logging)
- Some CI/CD processes and deployment best practices
- Experience working in cross-functional product teams
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills - Ability to propose solutions and back them up with sound reasoning
- Bonus: Passion for creating music tools that empower creative music makers
What the job involves
- The Output team is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to build and evolve highly scalable and available API platform capabilities to support rich new music experiences for our users specifically in the Discovery space - including browsing, recommendation, personalization, search, and other experiences
- Build, evolve, deploy, monitor, and maintain backend services to power critical user experiences with focus on high availability, low latency and scalability
- Provide backend services technical leadership for your cross-functional team and large complex projects - be able to lead technical scoping, architecture and system design
- Actively participate in scrum process - work breakdown, grooming, estimation, planning and execution of software development work as part of a scrum team
- Provide architectural leadership for projects - Understand critical tradeoffs and prioritize paying down tech debt along the way
- Build, operate and maintain infrastructure, tools, and CI/CD deployment pipeline. Take operational responsibility for the services that are owned by your team
- Be a role model for the team on SW engineering best practices, leading by example
- Lead technical projects from start to finish - ability to apply lean process
- Strong judgment to drive project trade-off decisions between complexity and lead time
- Advocate for making quality implicit in our engineering processes and practices
Our take
Output creates software for musicians. The platform aims to boost musical creativity and innovation by providing users with an endless range of instruments and sound manipulation tools. The company claims to be behind music created by and for famous names including Rihanna, Drake, Justin Timberlake, and Kendrick Lamar.
Founded by music composer Gregg Lehrman, the brand started by offering basic software for music makers working outside of a studio. The service has seen significant uptake from hobbyists and music enthusiasts, with a large portion of the company's income coming from Arcade, a database of music samples available for a monthly subscription fee.
Other providers such as Splice and Noiz exist and offer access to a library of music samples, but Output has now taken a more holistic approach. What started as software has now expanded into a suite of products, including instruments and even customised furniture. An AI music "co-producer" to spark creativity was launched in 2024, indicating Output's continued push for innovation.
Kirsty
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Insights
-20% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Oct 2020
$45m
SERIES A
Total funding: $45m
Company benefits
- We have embraced the “work from anywhere revolution” and will continue to hire all roles remotely unless otherwise stated
- Our Los Angeles office will remain open to those needing a space or looking for a place to collaborate with other teams
- Our culture has always valued our employee’s work-life balance and we offer 5 weeks of PTO
- Excellent health care
- Community of music enthusiasts- with access to our music studios (once it is safe to return)
Company HQ
Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA
Leadership
Gregg Lehrman
(CEO)Having studied at Cornell, they worked as an Assistant to Hans Zimmer and a Creative Director of Silkscreen Music. They spent 2 years as Executive Producer of Universal Music Publishing Group before founding Output in November 2013.
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