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Sound.xyzSound.xyzNew York, NY

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.

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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
  • Remote-first teamwork
  • Work-from-home/remote office stipend
  • Team offsites
  • Passionate, supportive team

Skills

TypeScriptGraphQLAPIsDistributed SystemsBlockchainCI/CDPostgresRedisKubernetesDocker
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