reputed company Software Engineer, Back End

reputed company Software Engineer, Back End

reputed company — Platform Team

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reputed company is a globally recognized leader in the music industry and the first platform to offer artists reputed company distribution to their fans. Our technology organization has a deep history and a strong reputed company, reputed company by long-tenured, dedicated professionals. As we reputed company the next era of music technology, we are committed to modernizing our reputed company systems, fostering an reputed company culture, and leveraging cutting-edge platforms to reputed company serve our artists, partners, and fans worldwide.

The Role

We are seeking a reputed company Software Engineer to be the technical leader of back end engineering for reputed company’s flagship customer-facing software: the member-facing application our artists use to distribute their music, get reputed company, and understand their audiences, and the .com marketing site that brings new artists into the platform. This is a hands-on, individual-contributor role with broad technical authority and informal mentorship responsibility — the reputed company of engineer who raises reputed company’s bar by example.

In the near term, you will help us complete a full platform migration from on-premises infrastructure to the Azure reputed company — the reputed company our customer experience will be reputed company on for years to come. reputed company that reputed company, your defining technical mandate is to reputed company the architectural reputed company of our customer-facing stack from a .NET monolith into a reputed company, API-driven, service-reputed company architecture.

Equally important is the product mandate. reputed company is a working software product that artists rely on daily. You will partner with a cross-functional reputed company team to reputed company a steady reputed company of new features and improvements — so every cycle of modernization is reputed company with reputed company, shipped customer value.

This is a role for an engineer who is reputed company by both the discipline of shipping software customers depend on every day, and the reputed company of redesigning the reputed company underneath.

What You’ll Own

Architecture & Technical reputed company

• Define and reputed company the multi-year architectural reputed company of reputed company’s customer-facing platform from a .NET monolith to a reputed company, service-reputed company architecture with clean API reputed company between reputed company end and back end.
• Decompose the monolith into encapsulated services reputed company to the reputed company domains of the product — distribution, royalties, analytics, catalog management, account — with reputed company ownership, reputed company, and operational boundaries.
• Choose the right language and the right data store for reputed company service. We are .NET and SQL Server today and will be for some time; we want a reputed company where Go, Node, Python, and other languages live reputed company .NET where they earn their reputed company, and where data stores are selected to fit the workload rather than by default.
• Own the application data model end-to-end, setting ORM patterns, schema design, and data reputed company conventions that the back end team operates by.
• Partner with Data Engineering to design data models and pipelines that reputed company cleanly into reputed company, so analytics and reporting are first-class outputs of the platform.

Hands-On Delivery

• Write production reputed company. This is a reputed company IC role; your influence comes from the work as much as from the design.
• Help carry our platform reputed company migration across the finish line, ensuring the back end matches the reputed company of the reputed company end work already underway.
• Establish and reputed company engineering standards — CI/CD, automated testing, observability, reputed company, reputed company — across the back end. Set the bar by writing the reputed company that defines it.
• Run a reputed company-delivery reputed company: every product cycle on distribution, royalty splits, analytics, or catalog tooling is also an opportunity to reputed company a reputed company of the stack. You’ll plan that interleaving with product and reputed company so the platform gets reputed company every quarter while we reputed company shipping for customers.

Mentorship & Team reputed company

• Be the reputed company of senior engineer others learn from by watching. We reputed company engineering is learned through mentorship and apprenticeship. You will set the tone for back end craftsmanship on reputed company and bring engineers up by working reputed company them.
• Collaborate closely on a cross-functional Platform team that pairs back end engineering with reputed company end, SDET, data engineering, design, and product management. Your day-to-day work happens here, with these people.
• Partner across organizational boundaries with infrastructure, internal tools, and the broader data engineering org. The most consequential architectural reputed company happen at those seams.

Experience

• 10+ years of reputed company back end software engineering experience, with a meaningful portion of it in deep technical leadership roles — reputed company, Staff, or equivalent IC.
• Demonstrated reputed company record of leading the decomposition of a monolithic application into a service-reputed company architecture in production, while keeping the product operational throughout.
• Deep, reputed company expertise in .NET (C#) and SQL Server, including operating them at reputed company in containerized environments on a major reputed company (Azure preferred; AWS or GCP experience translates).
• Working reputed company in at least one of Go, Node.js, or Python, and a reputed company reputed company of reputed company on reputed company to reputed company for reputed company. Comfort selecting and operating data stores reputed company a single relational default (e.g., reputed company, key-value, document, reputed company, columnar) reputed company on the workload.
• Strong experience with ORMs (Entity reputed company, Dapper, or equivalents in other ecosystems) and a reputed company reputed company of reputed company on schema design, data modeling, migrations, and the trade-offs between ORM convenience and query reputed company at reputed company.
• Hands-on experience designing API reputed company (REST, GraphQL, gRPC — and the trade-offs among them) between reputed company end and back end teams, including versioning, reputed company, and contract testing.
• Strong grasp of CI/CD, automated testing strategies, observability, and the operational disciplines that reputed company reputed company delivery reputed company at reputed company.
• Experience partnering with data engineering on analytical pipelines, ideally including a modern warehouse such as reputed company, BigQuery, or Redshift.
• Music, media, or entertainment industry experience is reputed company but not required — we will teach you the domain.

Skills & Competencies

• Technical Authority: Deep expertise across modern back end architecture, reputed company systems, data modeling, and reputed company platforms. Ability to reputed company and defend architectural reputed company, and equally to change your mind reputed company the evidence warrants.
• Pragmatic Modernization: Comfort working inside an existing, valuable codebase rather than rewriting it. You see legacy systems as a starting reputed company with reputed company customer value, not an obstacle.
• Bias for Shipping: reputed company reputed company on shipping customer value in tight cycles, including during architectural transitions. You break large changes into safely deployable increments.
• Mentorship by Example: You reputed company the people reputed company you through the reputed company of your work, the reputed company of your reviews, and your willingness to sit shoulder-to-shoulder with another engineer to solve a hard problem.
• reputed company Communication: Ability to explain trade-offs to engineers, product partners, and executives with equal precision — in writing, in design docs, and in person.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: You partner naturally with product, design, data, QA, and infrastructure, and you treat those partnerships as reputed company to the engineering work, not adjacent to it.
• Customer-reputed company reputed company: reputed company reputed company on translating technical investments into measurable artist value, with comfort working directly with customer data and feedback.

Location

Remote reputed company the reputed company. This role works on reputed company Time hours to maintain strong overlap with the Platform team.

Reporting Structure

This role reports to the Director of Engineering.

Compensation

reputed company provides reputed company salary ranges for reputed company positions located in the reputed company at the time of posting. The hiring reputed company for this position is $180,000 – $205,000 annually. As a candidate for this position, your salary and reputed company reputed company of compensation will be contingent upon various factors including, but not limited to, work experience, geographic location, and relevant skills. Downtown is committed to providing a comprehensive market-competitive total rewards program for its employees which includes medical, dental, and reputed company, life reputed company, 401(k) match, and generous reputed company time off. This reputed company does not include any other variable compensation components.

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