# Staff / Senior Software Engineer

**Company:** [Suno](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/suno)
**Location:** Boston, MA, New York, NY
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $220k – $280k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, Django, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Postgres, Redis, React, TypeScript, Next.js, API Design
**Posted:** 2024-04-23

> Build and own backend/full-stack systems for AI music platform serving millions, including content feeds, social features, and AI visual products. Requires 5-7+ years experience with strong API design and consumer-scale systems.

## Job Description

## What You’ll Do

- Own products and systems end-to-end — from scoping what to build, to shipping, to monitoring and iterating post-launch
- Build backend and full-stack systems that serve millions of users with high performance and reliability
- Design clean, scalable APIs consumed by web, iOS, and Android clients
- Collaborate closely with Product, Design, Data Science, and peer engineering teams
- Run experiments, instrument metrics, and make data-informed decisions about what to build next
- Communicate proactively and with high bandwidth — concise & information-dense async updates, stakeholder alignment, low entropy
- Raise the technical bar through code quality, architectural thinking, crisp abstractions, and mentorship

## What You’ll Need

**Required**
- 5-7+ years of software engineering experience
- Backend or full-stack experience building consumer products at scale
- Strong API design skills — you’ve built APIs consumed by multiple client teams and have opinions about how they should work
- A generalist, get-it-done attitude paired with genuine technical depth in at least one area
- Comfort with high ambiguity — you can scope what matters, make tradeoffs, and drive forward without a fully defined spec
- Excellent communication skills — your written updates are clear and dense, and you collaborate well across teams
- Product intuition — you think about the end user in addition to the system

**Strong Plusses**
- Experience with feed architecture, recommendation systems, content ranking, or search/retrieval at scale
- Experience shipping social product features (follow graphs, notifications, engagement systems, publishing flows) at a consumer company
- Power user of social media with genuine intuition for why engagement mechanics work (familiar with network effects, NFX literature, creator dynamics)
- Hands-on experience with AI image and/or video model inference — diffusion models, token-based inputs, LoRA tuning, inference optimization
- Full-stack capability including modern frontend (React, TypeScript, NextJS)
- Mobile-first API design experience working directly with iOS/Android teams
- Experience building 0→1 products and existing on existing products in a startup environment
- Web experience with Python, Django, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Postgres, Redis
- Technical leadership experience
- A love of music, whether you’re an avid listener or musician yourself

## Perks & Benefits for Full-Time Employees
- Company Equity Package
- 401(k) with 3% Employer Match & Roth 401(k)
- Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance (PPO w/ HSA & FSA options)
- 11 Paid Holidays + Unlimited PTO & Sick Time
- 16 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave
- Creative Education Stipend
- Generous Commuter Allowance
- In-Office Lunch (5 days per week)

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