Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Responsibilities

• 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 external developers
• Act as a player-coach and champion code quality & developer experience
• Improve real-time blockchain data pipelines
• Collaborate to improve continuous integration, deployment, logging, metrics, and visibility
• Develop best practices for backend application development
• Mentor and train other engineers on the team

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience writing production software
• Must live between GMT-8 and GMT-5 timezones

Preferred Qualifications

• Public contributions to open source projects
• Experience solving complex distributed systems problems
• Experience with TypeScript & GraphQL

Benefits

• Health, mental health, dental, and vision insurance
• Remote-first teamwork
• Work-from-home/remote office stipend
• Periodic in-person team offsites

About the Company

Sound is building a new music economy that values artists and their music while connecting fans more closely to the music they love through web3 economic tools.