Staff Software Engineer, Backend
Leads technical direction and architecture for backend systems supporting music economy platform with web3 features like NFTs and blockchain data pipelines. Requires 6+ years experience, North American timezones, and individual contributions to scalable infrastructure.
About the job
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 eventually external developers
- 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
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience writing production software
- Live between GMT-8 and GMT-5 (North American timezones)
Nice to Have
- Public contributions to open source projects
- Experience solving complex distributed systems problems
- Experience with Typescript & GraphQL
Benefits
- Top-of-the-line health, mental health, dental, and vision insurance
- Remote-first teamwork
- Work-from-home/remote office stipend
- Team offsites
- Passionate, supportive team
Skills
TypeScript, GraphQL, APIs, Distributed Systems, Blockchain, CI/CD, Postgres, Redis, Kubernetes, Docker
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