Software Engineer

EngineEars is a music-tech platform, built and designed specifically to improve the music creation process for audio engineers, producers and artists. We are transforming the way music is made in the digital age by bringing the power of modern technology to creators. We’ve started with audio engineers, giving them the tools to effectively collaborate and work on projects with artists from booking mixing projects and navigating the mixing workflow, to getting paid in a timely manner. Located in Los Angeles, we are a well-funded Seed stage startup, backed by music industry greats and VCs like Top Dog (TDE), Derek “MixedbyAli” Ali, Slauson & Co and more. We are building in the most creative industry in the world, with users who are searching for change that will help them win. Come join us!

As a Software Engineer, you will have the ability to leverage existing knowledge about modern development frameworks to build the foundation across our software stack! As a founding member of the team, you will not only have ownership and shape the architecture and structure of the product., but you will help build the foundation of the engineering culture at the company. We’re looking for engineers with strong knowledge and experiences - it can be in infrastructure, full stack for web apps or database engineering.

What you will own

• Design and implement backend services and APIs to interact with the frontend system
• Design and implement solutions for file storage across GCP and AWS
• Partner with front-end team to design and implement user flows and front-end features
• Design and implement new features across the stack

What you will bring on Day 1

• Degree in Computer Science, Math, or related fields
• 3+ years of experience working as a software engineer working across the stack outside of education and internships
• Experience with relational databases in your previous work
• Foundational knowledge in data structures, algorithms and architectural design with analytical and debugging skills.
• Strong knowledge of Javascript, Python (Django required), SQL
• Working knowledge of git
• Effective interpersonal, communication and collaboration skills
• Extremely effective problem solving skills
• Technical curiosity and a drive to learn new things
• Passion for music

These would be great to have, but we’re sure you can learn this on the job here

• Musical background or previous work with music
• Programming using Django Rest Framework

Our stack: We host EngineEars on Google Cloud Platform via Flexible App Engine environment. The backend is Django Rest Framework using a PostgreSQL database. Files are stored using Amazon Web Services S3 and Google Cloud Storage. The frontend is React JS (with React Redux), NPM package management.