[Hiring] Senior Manager, Full Stack Engineering @Musical AI

Musical AI; Deutschland; Remote; EUR 60.000 - 80.000; Vollzeit

Jobbeschreibung

Overview

Sep 09, 2025 - Musical AI is hiring a remote Senior Manager, Full Stack Engineering. Salary: competitive salary, meaningful equity. Location: Canada.

We are a Canadian remote-first company building technology to enable principled AI training on copyrighted content. Our verifiable attribution technology measures the influence of an AI training corpus on generative AI outputs, and our licensing layer connects AI builders with premium catalogs under clear terms to help AI companies move fast within the entertainment industries. We partner with AI companies, labels and publishers to make consent, credit and compensation practical at scale. This is your chance to join from the ground floor, shape our product, and contribute to changing the music industry.

We are first-to-market, balancing innovation with practical delivery. Our values are innovation, adaptability, accountability, collaboration, urgency, and value creation.

Who Weor Looking For

We are seeking a curious, collaborative, and impact-driven Senior Manager, Full Stack Engineering who wants to build groundbreaking tools at the intersection of AI and music. As an early team member, you will bring your experience to bear and contribute hands-on. You don’t need to be a music theory expert, but a commitment to making premium AI training accessible is important. We value collaboration, inclusivity, and the ability to adapt when things change. Our team prioritizes shipping, testing, and learning to build meaningful, high-impact results.

We are remote-first across Canada and meet as a team a minimum of twice a year. All applicants must live and be eligible to work in Canada.

Your Experience

• 6-10+ years of professional software engineering with substantial full-stack product delivery.
• Proven experience owning complex features end-to-end across frontend, backend, and data.
• Background in one or more: high-scale data/real-time systems, media/content platforms, fintech/payments, or B2B marketplaces.
• Experience collaborating with product/design and interfacing with enterprise customers.
• Leadership experience mentoring others, leading designs, and influencing engineering standards. (Prior team-lead experience mandatory; growth path to managing managers.)

Your Tool Stack

• Frontend: React 18, Next.js, Tailwind, Framer Motion, data-viz (D3.js/Chart.js)
• Backend: Node.js/Express or Python/FastAPI; GraphQL + REST; WebSockets
• Data: PostgreSQL, MongoDB/DynamoDB; Redis/queue; vector DB (for attribution)
• Cloud: AWS (AppSync, Amplify/Cognito, S3, CloudFront, Lambda/ECS/EKS)
• Platform: Multi-tenant architecture, comprehensive audit logging

What YoulBe Doing

Technical Leadership

• Drive key architectural decisions for a scalable, multi-tenant platform.
• Establish engineering best practices, code standards, CI/CD, and review processes.
• Mentor developers; lead technical design reviews and interviews.

Core Development (Full-Stack)

• Frontend (React 18/Next.js)
  • Build dashboards for rights holders and AI companies.
  • Implement data analytics and visualization (D3.js/Chart.js or similar).
  • Build responsive UI systems (Tailwind; component libs), with smooth UX (Framer Motion).
  • Integrate auth and session flows (AWS Amplify/Cognito or equivalent).
• Backend (Node.js/Express or Python/FastAPI; GraphQL/REST)
  • Design and implement REST/GraphQL APIs for transactions and data access controls.
  • Build authentication and role-based multi-tenant authorization.
  • Create reporting engines for usage analytics, royalty calculations, and financial reporting.
  • Implement real-time features (WebSockets/subscriptions) for notifications and messaging.
  • Build file flows for audio/metadata upload, download, and secure delivery.

Strategic Planning & Operations

• Translate tech vision into quarterly OKRs, roadmaps, and measurable outcomes.
• Balance feature velocity with tech-debt management, reliability, and cost.
• Make build-vs-buy decisions for vendors/third-party services and cloud components.
• Provide data-driven status to the CEO/execs and participate in product strategy.

Customer, Compliance & Partnerships

• Handle escalations requiring deep technical debugging and solutions.
• Lead security/compliance work: SOC 2, audit logging, data retention, and industry standards.
• Collaborate with Legal/Compliance on regulatory requirements (music/film industry).
• Manage relationships with cloud providers, GPU vendors, and security auditors.

Production Systems & Scale

• Design for millions of assets and real-time attribution at scale.
• Implement security, observability (metrics/logging/tracing), and incident response.
• Optimize performance and cost (including GPU, storage, and data egress).

Who Youll Work With

• CTO: align on tech vision; transition R&D innovations into production systems.
• Product & Design: prioritize features with clear success metrics and feedback loops.
• Sales/Customer Success: translate enterprise requirements and lead technical escalations.
• Legal/Compliance: ensure security audits and regulatory obligations are met.

Why Youll Love Working Here

• Direct growth path to VP of Engineering
• Part of a first-to-market company shaping the future of music and AI from the earliest stages.
• Work with founders and teammates who care deeply about both art and technology.
• Join a Canadian remote-first team that values flexibility, inclusivity, and creativity.
• Work in a culture that celebrates speed, experimentation, and impact.
• Competitive salary, meaningful equity, and the chance to grow as we grow.

The Interview Process

1. Step 1: A Google Meet conversation with Nicolas Gonzalez Thomas, CTO and hiring manager, to introduce the role and the company, and to explore your interest in the role, previous experience, and goals.
2. Step 2: A Google Meet conversation with Nicolas Gonzalez Thomas including a technical assessment. We'll dive deeper into your previous experience, technical skills, and working style.
3. Step 3: A Google Meet conversation with Sean Power and Matt Adell focused on values alignment and the impact you'd like to make at Musical AI.
4. Step 4: If there is a mutual fit, we'll move forward with an offer!

Anticipated Start Date: October 2025

Accommodations and Accessibility: Musical AI provides employment accommodation during the recruitment process in line with Accessibility Standards Canada. If you require accommodation, please indicate this on your application and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs. Generative AI is not used as part of our screening, candidate selection, or interviewing process.

Inclusion: In line with the Canadian Human Rights Act, we are committed to building an environment where everyone feels included, valued, and heard. Diversity, inclusion, and belonging are an integral part of building ethical and safe AI technology, and they enable us to reach our goal of building technology that changes the world of music. We strongly encourage applications from Indigenous peoples, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and/or people with intersectional identities.