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 eventually external developers building on top of Sound
• 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

Sound's Benefits

• Our vision for the future is ambitious: we want to honor the value of music by giving a million artists the opportunity to live off their music. Here are some of our benefits:
• We offer top-of-the-line benefits, including health, mental health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Remote-first teamwork with team and community members around the world
• Work-from-home/remote office stipend
• Team offsites for periodic collaborative strategy sessions in person
• Passionate, supportive team dedicated to learning and growing together in web3
• Sound is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity, and welcome people from a variety of backgrounds, ethnicities, cultures, perspectives, experiences, and skill sets. As part of our commitment to equality, we work to ensure a fair and consistent interview process, and continue to promote an inclusive work environment.