Senior Backend Engineer / Lead Architect

Lutely; Michigan; Remote; USD 111,000 - 152,000; Full time

Job summary

Lutely, an AI-powered music tech platform, seeks a Lead Architect / Senior Backend Engineer in Michigan. You will lead back-end development, manage AWS infrastructure, and shape technology decisions to support a creator-first platform. This role offers competitive salary, remote flexibility, and the opportunity to influence the future of music technology.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Optional equity package

Remote flexibility

Creative culture

Qualifications

• Experienced python and AWS developer to lead back-end architecture.
• Strong proficiency in Python and proven experience building back-ends.

Responsibilities

• Lead back-end development of online tools for music creators.
• Manage and improve AWS service usage, including S3, ECS/EC2.
• Develop backend API services for customer-facing front-end.

Skills

Python

AWS

Communication

Tools

Git

Job description

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Lutely is an artist-first, AI-powered music tech platform. We help creators do more with their music by creating new sellable assets from their originals and providing a commission-free marketplace to license and sell their music directly to users and fans.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Lead Architect / Senior Backend Engineer based in Michigan to join our engineering team. You’ll lead the back-end development of online tools that power the future of music - serving musical artists, labels and other aggregators in the music industry. This is a chance to help shape a fast-moving, creator-first platform from the ground up.

You’ll lead, be very hands on, and drive the technical vision for all our software and AWS infra. This includes supporting our front-end and back-end customer facing services, API service, and distributed audio ingestion pipeline & processor. You will shape all technology decisions from how to keep developers productive to staying out in front with AI advancements.

Responsibilities

• Take on the existing backend infrastructure and code which provides audio/media management for artists and AI which transforms audio assets. This includes an API library of proprietary and open-source code which support a rich front-end.
• Build and maintain advanced back-end features using Python, Postgres, and other related elements in the tech stack to support our React-based front-end.
• Manage and improve our AWS service usage, including S3, ECS/EC2, etc.
• Develop backend api services which can be used from our customer-facing front-end as well as from other products which require direct api connections.
• Collaborate with design, product, and front-end teams to deliver resilient, safe and reliable experiences.
• Optimize applications for speed, performance, and responsiveness, to support scale throughout the growth of our products.

Requirements

• Experienced python and AWS developer to lead back-end architecture and drive thoughtful, scalable technical designs.
• AWS service experience - including setup, maintenance and problem solving for S3, ECS, EC2, SQS, Lambda, and others.
• You should be able to describe in detail a product you’ve delivered or system you’ve built. Highlighting decisions you’ve made and what you’ve learned from it.
• Experience and enthusiasm for adjunct technologies for observability, testing, deployment, experimentation, logging, analytics. Part of this role is evaluating and incorporating the right technologies.
• Strong communication is a must, spanning design/architecture, strategy, remote team communication, collaborating with technical partners
• Deep understanding of backend designs to support multiple front-end entry points and direct API access, with scalable component architecture
• Strong proficiency in Python
• Proven experience building back-ends to support responsive, high-performance web applications and direct API end points.
• Solid grasp of asynchronous data flows and working with RESTful APIs
• Proficiency with Git and collaborative development workflows (e.g. code reviews, pull requests)
• Must be based in Michigan (remote within the state is welcome)
• Awesome if you have a passion for music, creator tools, or media tech

Nice to Have

• AI Pipeline processing and LLM Model integrations, including retraining models.
• Background in music tech, audio tools, or creator platforms
• Experience writing unit and integration tests

What we Offer

• Competitive salary and optional equity package based on experience. We're early-stage and want builders who think like owners.
• Remote flexibility, as long as you're based in Michigan
• Opportunity to help shape a new music tech paradigm
• Fast-moving, creative, and mission-driven culture

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

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