Staff Backend Engineer — Remote, Web3 Music Platform

soundxyz; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision insurance

Remote-first teamwork

Home office stipend

Team offsites for strategy sessions

Job summary

Sound is hiring a Staff Backend Engineer to shape the future of a music economy that values artists while connecting fans to the music they love. You will lead technical direction and contribute as an individual contributor to the codebase, architecting and driving new projects, API layers, and performance improvements as we scale.

You will mentor engineers, own backend infrastructure, and influence product decisions affecting end users, including web3 tools, governance, and community features.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of production software experience.
• Willing to work in North American time zones GMT-8 to GMT-5.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction for the team and help guide engineering vision.
• Lead the architecting of important systems and anticipate scaling-related challenges.
• Design, build, and continually improve Sound's core backend infrastructure.
• Develop a robust product-focused API layer used by front-end developers and external developers.
• Mentor and train other engineers on the team.
• Improve our real-time blockchain data pipelines.
• Collaborate to improve CI/CD, logging, metrics, and visibility into service health.
• Develop best practices for backend application development.

Skills

Backend architecture

Distributed systems

Leadership

Typescript

GraphQL

Web3 familiarity

Tools

AWS

Job description

Sound is hiring a Staff Backend Engineer to shape the future of a music economy that values artists while connecting fans to the music they love. You will lead technical direction and contribute as an individual contributor to the codebase, architecting and driving new projects, API layers, and performance improvements as we scale.

You will mentor engineers, own backend infrastructure, and influence product decisions affecting end users, including web3 tools, governance, and community features.