Company Name: Sound

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Job Description: RoleWho you are6+ years of experience writing production softwareDesirablePublic contributions to open source projectsExperience solving complex distributed systems problemsExperience with Typescript & GraphQLWhat the job involvesSound 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 loveAs 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 organizationNce 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 experienceSet the technical direction for the team and help guide engineering visionLead the architecting of important systems and anticipate strategic and scaling-related challengesDesign, build, and continually improve Sound's core backend infrastructureDevelop a robust product-focused API layer used by front-end developers and eventually external developers building on top of SoundAct as a player-coach and champion code quality & developer experienceImprove our real-time blockchain data pipelinesCollaborate to improve continuous integration, deployment, logging, metrics, and visibility into service/site healthDevelop best practices for backend application developmentMentor and train other engineers on the teamShare this jobReport a problem with this jobHide companyView 1 more job at SoundCompanyCompany benefitsWe offer top-of-the-line benefits, including health, mental health, dental, and vision insuranceRemote-first teamwork with team and community members around the worldWork-from-home/remote office stipendTeam offsites for periodic collaborative strategy sessions in personFunding (2 rounds)Jul 2023$20mSERIES ADec 2021$3.9mSEEDTotal funding: $23.9mOur takeAfter the 2014 Taylor Swift Spotify scandal, the uproar for artist support and the fact that music shouldn’t be free created quite a stir. Sound is driven by the desire to connect listeners to their favorite artists and directly support them through Web 3.0 tools - the outcome being artists making a full-time living off their music alone.As well as the support to help the music industry monetize assets, Sound is also an amazing space for fans to have access to listening parties, gain exclusive access to music drops and purchase song NFTs, entering the customers into interactive communities.Sound’s vision for the future is ambitious - “we want to honour the value of music by giving a million artists the opportunity to live off their art”. NFT platforms can often be hard to connect to, but the human passion and message underlying the company's drive is super appealing and attractive.The idea has proved so appealing, in fact, that Sound has raised remarkable funding - the latest round of which included participants such as VC firm Andreessen Horowitz and big industry names like Snoop Dogg. The company will use this funding to expand its artist relations, engineering and marketing teams, as it opens up its platform to the public.FreddieCompany Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle