Backend Engineer

Stationhead is seeking a passionate Backend Engineer to join our growing development team. This is a full-time remote position based around EST working hours.

About Stationhead

Stationhead is a social music platform for music fans & artists around the world to connect, listen live, and stream together. Artists like BTS, Nicki Minaj, and Coldplay have all launched official stations on Stationhead in addition to tens of thousands of stations launched by fan clubs around the world. Our team is a small group of passionate music-lovers who believe the future of music is rooted in community, and that conversation and experiences foster these communities worldwide. We are growing rapidly thanks to great creator hosts, media attention and a fiercely loyal user base in the millions, and are aggressively working to continually enhance and grow the Stationhead experience for more listeners on more platforms.

About the Role

• Build out features for our backend services, which support our iOS, Web, and Android applications.
• Optimize our system and implement solutions to support our growing user base.
• Scale and maintain our backend infrastructure & deployment systems.
• Work closely with our Product team to build and deliver features in a fast-paced, agile environment.
• Advocate for engineering standards & best practices and automate processes and tooling.
• Contribute to our comprehensive automated test suites.
• Take ownership over features from development through QA, delivery and ongoing maintenance.
• Participate in product discussions and use your development expertise to inform roadmap decisions within the business.

About You

• You have 2+ years experience building web applications with at least one MVC web framework like .NET Core, Laravel, Ruby on Rails, Django, or Express.
• You have experience writing and optimizing queries both in raw SQL and using an ORM, and have experience designing database schema.
• You have experience working in linux-based environments
• You write clear, maintainable, and well-tested code.
• You are an advocate for automated testing and understand its importance in delivering features reliably.
• You are a team-player with strong communication skills.
• You are naturally curious and are committed to improving your own skillsets as well as those of your team members.
• You take ownership of your work and strive to be an accountable member of the development team.
• While startup experience is not required, a desire to work at a startup and an understanding of the unique aspects of a startup environment are essential.

Preferred Skills

• Prior experience with .NET Core
• Experience with AWS managed services
• Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes

Benefits

• Health insurance, unlimited PTO, 401K plan
• Early equity in a growing business
• Fully remote position

Compensation Range

$125k - $150K DOE, plus equity