Staff Frontend Software Engineer, Sound
Web 3.0 native music & economic tools
Open for applications
Web 3.0 native music & economic tools
21-100 employees
Open for applications
21-100 employees
Company mission
To create a world where artists can make a living off their music alone, and where listeners play an active role in music discovery.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of experience writing production software
- Live between GMT-8 and GMT-5 (North American timezones)
- Advanced knowledge of React and Typescript
Desirable
- Public contributions to open source projects
- Experience with Next.js, GraphQL
- Full-stack experience (NodeJS)
What the job involves
- Sound is hiring a Staff Frontend 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 Frontend Engineer, you will lead technical direction for our engineering team while contributing as an individual contributor to our code base
- You will help build and maintain our user-facing suite of tools
- This includes our core song and artist pages for listening parties, artist tools, community management tools, governance and membership tools to empower the next wave of artists and their communities
- You will be involved in product decisions and have a direct impact on the end user experience
- Set the technical direction for the team and help guide frontend engineering vision
- Create delightful user experiences with an eye towards performance and accessibility
- Build reusable components, write unit & integration tests, and continually raise the code quality and developer experience bar
- Lead the architecting of important systems and anticipate strategic and scaling-related challenges
- Design, build, and continually improve Sound's core frontend infrastructure
- Act as a player-coach and champion code quality & developer experience
- Mentor and train other engineers on the team
Our take
After the 2014 Taylor Swift Spotify scandal, the uproar for artist support and the fact that music shouldn’t be free created quite a stir. Sound is driven by the desire to connect listeners to their favorite artists and directly support them through Web 3.0 tools - the outcome being artists making a full-time living off their music alone.
As well as the support to help the music industry monetize assets, Sound is also an amazing space for fans to have access to listening parties, gain exclusive access to music drops and purchase song NFTs, entering the customers into interactive communities.
Sound’s vision for the future is ambitious - “we want to honour the value of music by giving a million artists the opportunity to live off their art”. NFT platforms can often be hard to connect to, but the human passion and message underlying the company's drive is super appealing and attractive.
The idea has proved so appealing, in fact, that Sound has raised remarkable funding - the latest round of which included participants such as VC firm Andreessen Horowitz and big industry names like Snoop Dogg. The company will use this funding to expand its artist relations, engineering and marketing teams, as it opens up its platform to the public.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jul 2023
$20m
SERIES A
Dec 2021
$3.8m
SEED
Total funding: $23.8m
Company 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
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Leadership
David Greenstein
(Co-founder)Previously a Product Manager at Pandora and Opendoor.
Vignesh Hirudayakanth
(Co-founder)Previously worked for 6 years as a Software Engineer for companies such as Turn, Opendoor, and Apple.
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