Sound is hiring a Staff Backend Engineer to help shape the future of a new
music economy that values artists and their music while connecting fans more
closely to the music they love.
As Staff Backend Engineer, you will lead technical direction for our
engineering team while contributing as an individual contributor to our code
base. You will architect and drive new projects, design and implement API
layers, and improve our performance and reliability as we rapidly scale our
product and organization. This includes our core song and artist pages for
listening parties, web3 economic tools (NFTs, splits), community management
tools, governance and membership tools to empower the next wave of crypto-
native artists and their communities. You will be involved in product
decisions and have a direct impact on the end user experience.
**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**
* Public contributions to open source projects
* Experience solving complex distributed systems problems.
* Experience with Typescript & GraphQL
sound.xyz focuses on Music and Blockchain / Cryptocurrency. Their company has
offices in Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco Bay Area, and Remote.
They have a small team that's between 11-50 employees. To date, sound.xyz has
raised $25M of funding; their latest round was closed on July 2023.
You can view their website at <http://sound.xyz/> or find them on
[Twitter](https://twitter.com/soundxyz_) and
[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/soundxyz/).
