Senior Software Engineer, Splice

• You have relevant work experience building and evolving production software using Go and Python
• You have experience leveraging SaaS and cloud provider primitives to their fullest potential
• You have worked with payment systems such as Stripe or Recurly and understand how to leverage their capabilities
• You work backwards from the customer experience
• You have several years of working with RDBMS such as MySQL or PostgreSQL, and crafting performant SQL queries
• You share our vision to enable artist creativity and continue our path to becoming the most iconic music company in the world
• You are comfortable having build-versus-buy tradeoff conversations
• You’re self-directed towards generating excellent work outcomes
• You ensure shared understanding about the definition of done
• You have a bias towards action and experimentation
• You are focused on quality over quantity
• You are comfortable, or even prefer working across technical stacks
• You are outcome-focused and consider how we will know whether our deliverables meet customer expectations
• You communicate clearly and effectively with technical and non-technical audiences
• You are comfortable writing, deploying, evolving, and deleting code

Desirable

• You will help define the architecture and drive implementation changes across multiple backend services that power Splice’s next-generation products
• You will translate those large-scale architectural changes into manageable, incremental outcomes that provide ongoing customer benefits
• You will operate on multiple levels, from defining and socializing high-level system architecture to direct API implementation and instrumentation
• You will advocate for system designs and APIs that make “The right thing, the easy thing.” You will drive solutions that are both technically and organizationally scalable
• You include customer experience when discussing engineering solutions and tradeoffs
• You investigate and provide clarifying guidance for areas of significant uncertainty
• You own delivering complex projects that span multiple domains and teams
• You identify areas for team- and organization-wide improvement and propose solutions
• You regularly seek mechanisms to ensure that deliverables meet or exceed quality standards
• You provide mentorship and give candid and respectful feedback on how to improve our engineering practices
• You help manage cross-team commitments, track their progress, and relate that to the overall delivery roadmap in order to help prioritize the team’s work
• You are flexible and readily adapt to change
• You enjoy looking for personal growth opportunities and are continuously looking for ways to improve
• OUR TECH STACK:
• Go, Python, TypeScript/NodeJS, GraphQL, Docker, MySQL, ElasticSearch, Redis
• NX, Jenkins, CodeBuild, Github Actions, Datadog
• Terraform, AWS, ECS Fargate, Lambda