Senior Backend Engineer
Summary
Builds and maintains core APIs, databases, and scalable infrastructure for a music-tech platform, using AWS, Node.js, PostgreSQL, and Elasticsearch.
Overview
Q&A is a music & technology company empowering the next generation of artists through teams, technology, tools and services. Our current tech stack includes: AWS, Heroku, Node.js, React, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch and Snowflake.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test and maintain core systems, APIs and databases for Q&A's products
- Effectively break down large problems into milestones, tasks and realistic deliverables
- Operate with modern software development best practices, including thorough testing, comprehensive documentation, continuous delivery, clean code and a devops mindset
- Help to build a culture of mentorship, learning, iteration, and continuous progress within the engineering team
- Participate in interviews and hiring processes to grow our engineering team
- Reach across team boundaries in building a tight knit and effective product development team
- Skilled at system architecture
- Can communicate engineering process throughout company
- Experience collaborating with design and product teams in startup environment
- Can effectively break down large problems into milestones, executables and realistic deadlines
- Provides constructive feedback and code reviews
- Effectively communicate effort vs value when reviewing proposed features
- Identify opportunities for cross-department collaboration
- Working in hybrid teams (great Slack communicator & Github organizer)
Experience Required
- 5+ years of software development experience in Backend, API and/or Systems. Built consumer or enterprise products. Payments experience preferred
- Experience shipping at least one production system / product
- Experience with audio/video codecs and transcoding media
- Experience in building scalable infrastructure in AWS
- Strong interest in music, financial systems and workflow experience