Software Engineer

Songtrust • Nashville, TN

11d

About The Position

SongtrustⓇ is the world's largest technology solution for global music publishing royalty collection and administration. It was founded to simplify music rights management and remove the complexity of the publishing landscape. Songtrust’s core mission is to help musicians, publishers, labels, and distributors easily track and collect global publishing royalties for their music catalogs. Songtrust has a catalog of over 3,000,000 songs, representing more than 350,000 songwriters including those who have written songs with Drake, Billie Eilish, and Kendrick Lamar. Publishers who entrust the company with their catalog’s royalty collection include CD Baby, Downtown Music Publishing, Symphonic Distribution, Sub Pop Publishing, and Trap Nation.
Songtrust maintains the most extensive, accessible publishing network in the music industry by having relationships across more than sixty pay sources around the world covering more than 245 countries and territories. Songtrust® is a registered service mark of ST Music LLC, which is owned and operated by Downtown Music Holdings. Songtrust was named a Billboard Magazine Top Music Startup upon launch in 2011. The company is headquartered in New York City. For more information, please visit: http://songtrust.com/

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software development, or equivalent experience.
• 3-5 years experience building consumer facing applications with Python and Javascript.
• Familiarity with AI-Augmented Engineering principles and developing web-based solutions in an agile environment.
• Proficiency in programming using Python and TypeScript
• Strong command of Django, Postgres, React or comparable open-source technologies
• Strong debugging, refactoring, and performance profiling skills
• Adherence to best practices including documentation creation and considerations of performance and ongoing maintenance
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and Continuous Integration
• A passion for music.

Nice To Haves

• AWS
• Docker
• ETL tools or frameworks
• Snowflake
• JSON schema
• OpenAPI
• Cypress
• Datadog
• MSSQL
• Redis

Responsibilities

• Participate and collaborate on a cross-functional product development team across the entire software development and product lifecycle.
• Work with various stakeholders to help foster product vision and define upcoming projects, products, and features.
• Deliver high-quality code and take operational responsibility for its ongoing performance, optimization, and maintenance.
• Implement frontend and backend features with associated tests for business applications, interfaces, and APIs, based on design specifications.
• Collaborate with team members to triage bug fixes for known issues, ensuring that the codebase and various technologies are up to date with the latest LTS releases
• Maintain awareness of and apply the latest best practices for software development, champion opportunities for improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the codebase
• Act as a mentor and provide guidance and feedback to junior developers.

Benefits

• Ample opportunities to work with leaders and employees across our business
• Work in a collaborative environment full of mission driven, innovative, and passionate people.
• Be a part of an open, welcoming, and inclusive culture.
• Rich benefit program (Medical, Dental, Vision), Life Insurance, 401k (with match)
• Paid Volunteer Hours

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level