Junior Software Developer

Playback Studio CPH; København; On-site; DKK 420,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

Playback is a Copenhagen-based music fin-tech startup helping independent artists and labels take control of their royalty management. We’re building software in-house and seeking a Junior Software Developer who wants to grow with the product and the engineering team.

This isn’t a role where you wait years for responsibility. You’ll join a small team, work on real features, APIs, and data flows, and gradually own increasingly complex parts of the platform while learning from experienced

Qualifications

• Solid foundation in software development
• Experience with modern programming languages and web technologies
• Understanding of APIs, databases and software architecture
• Care about readable, maintainable code

Responsibilities

• Build new features for the Playback platform
• Develop and maintain APIs and integrations
• Work with royalty and financial data
• Automate manual workflows
• Improve internal tools
• Fix bugs and improve existing functionality
• Write tests and improve code quality
• Collaborate with Product and Operations to understand problems
• Learn how software decisions connect to customers and the business

Skills

Curiosity

Learning ability

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Tools

Python

FastAPI

Typescript

React

PostgreSQL

Docker

Playwright

APIs

Web technologies

Job description

Want to learn fast? Join while we're building the team.

Playback is a Copenhagen-based music fin-tech startup helping independent artists and labels take control of their royalty management.

We're building technology that turns complicated royalty data, reporting and payment flows into something much simpler. And right now, we're bringing more of our software development in-house.

We're looking for a Junior Software Developer who wants to grow alongside the product and the engineering team we're building around it.

This isn't a 'wait two years before you get responsibility' role

Joining a small startup means you'll be close to the problems, the customers and the decisions.

You’ll work alongside experienced developers and the rest of the Playback team - but you’ll also build things that actually make it into our product.

You’ll get room to learn, ask questions, make mistakes, improve things and gradually take ownership of increasingly complex parts of the platform.

What you'll be working on

• Building new features for the Playback platform
• Developing and maintaining APIs and integrations
• Working with royalty and financial data
• Automating manual workflows
• Improving internal tools
• Fixing bugs and improving existing functionality
• Writing tests and helping improve the quality of our codebase
• Working closely with Product and Operations to understand the problems we're solving
• Learning how software decisions connect to customers and the business behind them
  

Who we're looking for

You may have recently graduated or have your first couple of years of professional development experience. Your exact background matters less than your curiosity and your ability to learn.

You have a solid foundation in software development; experience with modern programming languages and web technologies; an understanding of APIs, databases and software architecture; and you care about understandable, maintainable code.

You're curious about how systems work, comfortable asking questions, enjoy solving problems and want responsibility rather than waiting for someone to give it to you.

Personal projects, GitHub contributions, internships and things you've built simply because you wanted to all count. We don't expect you to know everything. That's partly the point.

Why Playback?

You’ll learn by building real things. Your work won't disappear into a sandbox.

You’ll work closely with experienced people while our engineering organisation itself takes shape.

You’ll understand the 'why' by being close to Product, Operations, customers and our founders.

You’ll have room to grow. As Playback and the engineering team grow, we want your responsibilities to grow with them.

You’ll have an influence early. Being junior doesn't mean your ideas don't count.

You’ll work on genuinely interesting problems combining music, data, money, rights, integrations and complicated edge cases.

Tech Stack

We have customers. We have running systems, and we have a tech stack.

Data & Infrastructure: PostgreSQL, Firebase, Supabase, Elest.io, Docker, Docker Compose, Playwright for automated testing.

Backend & Pipelines: Python, FastAPI, Panda, Celery, Typescript, Kong API, PostgREST

Client Apps: React, Typescript, Vite, AG Grid

About Playback

Playback helps independent artists and labels spend less time managing royalties and more time building their businesses and careers.

We collect, ingest and integrate royalty sources from across the music industry and bring the data together in one platform.

We're based in Copenhagen and are building Playback for a much bigger market than Denmark.

If you'd like your next few years as a developer to involve a lot of learning, responsibility and building, we'd love to hear from you.