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.
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Remote6+ YOEBackend Engineering
About the role
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
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