Senior Software Engineer, Platform

The Company

Soundstripe is a premier music licensing platform used by more than a million creators and professionals globally to level up their creative works, including videos, podcasts, and gaming experiences. Launched in 2016 by three professional musicians, the company helps fuel creativity for all types of customers, from amateur social creators to freelance filmmakers and podcasters to the world’s largest agencies and brands, including companies such as Microsoft, Uber, Adobe, Pepsico, Nike, and Bud Light.

The Challenge

The Soundstripe Engineering team is a highly collaborative group of developers, designers, and software professionals with a shared passion for building things. We’ve been hard at work this year refining our products and expanding our infrastructure to serve creators all over the world. As our platform grows, it’s essential that we continue to implement resilient, testable, and scalable solutions. That’s where you come in!

Role Overview

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Platform Team, you’ll be expected to:

• Contribute to the development and support of our products and services, using your skills as a software engineer to produce highly performant and testable solutions.
• Expand and monitor logging and notification systems to ensure timely responses to system errors and scaling needs.
• Improve the developer experience and productivity of all engineers by producing tools, leveraging automation, and optimizing source code and systems to amplify everyone’s work.
• Produce and maintain technical documentation for our applications and systems so that we can propagate our knowledge across the Engineering team.
• Leverage your knowledge of networks, servers, and information technology to help us maintain secure and resilient systems and preserve our compliance posture.

Who Will Love This Job

• A problem-solver who not only thinks about the bigger picture but can also connect the dots and dedicatedly resolve issues quickly and efficiently.
• An innovator who seeks out opportunities to optimize and iterate on existing processes to execute the team’s vision.
• A polyglot technician who thrives off of using all of their technical skills to solve problems, from writing code and querying databases, to configuring load-balancers and optimizing continuous integration runtimes.
• An excellent communicator who has a knack for explaining technical processes concisely (even to non-engineers), and works well with cross-functional teams.

Experiences You Bring to the Table

• You likely have somewhere around 10 years of experience building full-stack web applications as well as managing computer networks and other information systems.
• You have likely worked with other languages, but you will need a strong grasp and love of Ruby on Rails. It’s our bread and butter.
• You will need to have a working knowledge of source control in general. We specifically use Git along with GitHub.
• You will need to enjoy integrating with other APIs, as well as building, documenting, and supporting our own APIs. We do that a lot on this team!

Bonus Points If You Have

• Experience with migrating a React + Rails API to a full-stack Rails application. This is an active project of ours and we would love to hear from you if you’ve done this before!
• Experience with any of our tech. We use MacBooks for development, and Ubuntu servers to host our things. We work a lot with Ruby on Rails, but we also use Postgres, Redis, Sidekiq, RSpec, React, and Redux, to name a few.
• Experience working in remote agile teams. We use Slack and Zoom as our primary communication tools, Asana to track things, Notion for documentation, and GitHub for source control.
• Experience with cloud services. We use a number of cloud products and services to host our creations. A few of them are Fastly, Cloud66, DigitalOcean, and AWS.