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Senior Software Engineer (Audio)

💰 $4 - $90,000 📅 02/21/2024

Job Description

### **About us**

Stems is a social music app enabling simple remixing and sharing of content.
Our core
product, the Stem Studio uses custom and state of the art AI models with
proprietary
audio modification algorithms to allow anyone to easily remix anything. Stems
makes
remixing music as simple as editing a photo on your smartphone.

Working at Stems Labs means maintaining and growing a platform for high
quality music creation and consumption, with real-time 3D visualizers and
music streaming at scale. It is a technically complex, creatively consuming
product that requires precision, focus and innovation. We look for rockstar
engineers with deep confidence in their ability to add value based on what
they've done in the past. We don't care about your age, degree, skin color, we
only care about the results. Our technical team includes engineers with
experience as early employees at successful start-ups as well as experience at
Apple, Uber, Wish, Unity, VK, Amazon, Google, and Meta.

### The Role

We're looking for a senior software engineer with experience in large scale
production environments to join our team as we scale up our userbase. You will
develop, ship and maintain real-time audio processing features (C++, Python)
alongside other engineers. You will support and oversee the fullstack
integration Swift mobile app and Golang back-end.

### **You Will:**

* Develop, ship and maintain real-time audio processing software (C++) alongside other engineers
* Innovate and solve challenging problems from end-to-end to build features that allow users to manipulate audio in novel ways
* Provide structure, depth of expertise and efficiency to the engineering team as it transitions from a building prototypes to a large scale production product
* Write simple, performant and readable code
* Oversee the integration of your code to the Swift/React Native mobile app and Golang back-end
* Closely collaborate with mobile, backend and other software engineers, and facilitate information flow between them and other team members
* Shape the feature roadmap with founders, engineers and designers

### **Requirements:**

* 5+ years of experience using C++ or another low-level language to build audio processing, live video streaming, live dynamic 3D graphics, game development or similarly complex software in a large scale production environment
* Experience writing or maintaining audio processing software
* Bachelor's of Science or higher degree in Computer Science, Maths, Physics or equivalent
* Self-directed, high output and organized in the context of remote and fast-paced environment
* Superb English communication

### **Nice to Haves:**

* Experience using Golang for back-end development in a production environment
* Experience in mobile app development (Swift, React Native)
* Passion for music, e.g. experience as a producer or audio engineer

### More about Stems

Stems Labs, Inc. raised a $4m pre-seed round (summer 2022) from Ideo,
Collaborative fund, Village Global and many others. Stems Labs is partnering
with the largest institution in the music industry including Universal Music
Group, Warner Music Group, Sony Music Group, COLORSxStudios, CAA and the
people behind Coachella, Outside lands and other festivals. Artists and
investors in our network include the likes of Boys Noize, Poolside, Elohim,
Stellar, RAC and Christina Beltramini (Tiktok Music).

Stems focuses on Social Media, Music, and Artificial Intelligence. Their
company has offices in Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, Toronto, and
Lisbon. They have a small team that's between 11-50 employees. To date, Stems
has raised $4M of funding; their latest round was closed on October 2022.

You can view their website at <https://stems.art> or find them on
[Twitter](https://twitter.com/stemssss) and
[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/stemsdao).