Staff Backend Software Engineer, Sound
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Web 3.0 native music & economic tools
Open for applications
Web 3.0 native music & economic tools
1-20 employees
Open for applications
More information about location
1-20 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
Desirable
- Public contributions to open source projects
- Experience solving complex distributed systems problems
- Experience with Typescript & GraphQL
What the job involves
- 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
- Nce 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
- 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 used by front-end developers and eventually external developers building on top of Sound
- Act as a player-coach and champion code quality & developer experience
- Improve our real-time blockchain data pipelines
- Collaborate to improve continuous integration, deployment, logging, metrics, and visibility into service/site health
- Develop best practices for backend application development
- 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 the stir. Sound is driven by the desire to connect listeners to their favourite 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 monetise 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 one that 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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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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
- 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
- Passionate, supportive team dedicated to learning and growing together in web3
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Leadership
David Greenstein
(Co-founder)An extensive background in Analysis. More recently worked as Product Manager for Pandora and a Fellow for On Deck.
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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