Staff Backend Software Engineer, Sound
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Web 3.0 native music & economic tools
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Web 3.0 native music & economic tools
1-20 employees
Open for applications
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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.
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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.
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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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Benefits
- Health, mental health, dental and vision insurance
- Work-from-home/remote office stipend
- Team offsites
- Passionate, supportive team dedicated to learning and growing together in web3
- Remote-first teamwork with team and community members around the world
Funding (2 rounds)
Jul 2023
$20m
SERIES A
Dec 2021
$3.8m
SEED
Total funding: $23.8m
This company has top investors
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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