SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER, FULL STACK

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 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, just to name a few.  Since its inception, Soundstripe has issued more than 18 million content licenses from its diverse catalog of over fully-cleared songs and song variations, as well as from its catalog of sound effects and video clips.
The company is based in Nashville and its catalog is supported by a roster of award-winning creators, including heavy hitters like Sam Barsh (Doja Cat, The Weeknd, Kendrick Lamar, etc), VAULTZ (Lorde, Maggie Rogers, etc), and Elise Solberg (Beyonce, Ellie Goulding, etc).  Soundstripe is a 5x winner of the Tennessean’s Top Workplace Award and a certified Great Place to Work.
Learn more about us here.  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! We’re looking for a well-rounded engineer to join our Growth Team.
We are a small group of engineers who work closely with our Marketing and Product teams to deliver the tooling and features responsible for the growth of our core business.
Above all, we’re looking for an experienced engineer with a positive attitude, a healthy sense of pragmatism, and an innate desire to tackle complex problems.
If you’re equally at home cranking out test and production code as you are designing configurable systems and tooling, then Soundstripe would love to have you! This is a Full-Time Exempt position reporting directly to an Engineering Manager.  As a Senior Software Engineer on the Growth 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.
Design and build tooling that expand the capabilities of our Marketing and Product teams to drive company growth.
Improve the developer experience and productivity of all engineers by leveraging automated tests, and optimizing source code and systems to amplify everyone’s work.
Produce and maintain technical documentation for our applications, systems, and 3rd-party integrations so that we can propagate our knowledge across the Engineering team.
Leverage your knowledge of Marketing Technology (MarTech), A/B Testing, and internal tooling to enable the Marketing and Product teams to iterate quickly and with confidence.
Who Will Love This Job A problem-solve r.
You not only think about the bigger picture but can also connect the dots and dedicatedly resolve issues quickly and efficiently.
An innovator.
Y ou seek out opportunities to optimize and iterate on existing processes to execute the team’s vision.
Systems minded.
You enjoy designing and building configurable systems, processes, and tools that enable non-engineering teams to test and launch new ideas quickly.
An excellent communicator.
You have a knack for explaining technical processes concisely (especially to non-engineers), and thrive when working with highly collaborative and engaged cross-functional teams.
You value what we value.
We believe our Core Values make Soundstripe special.
We prioritize them in our big decisions and in our everyday tasks.
We know they are what has and will continue to drive our growth and success.
Provide all customers with genuine and whimsical care.  Confront harsh realities with optimism.
Keep it light.
Strive to always grow and learn.
Develop and practice honest communication.
Make it better.
Date the model.
Marry the mission.
Be humble and retain a giving and serving heart and mind.  Quality over quantity.
Experiences You Bring to the Table You likely have somewhere around 10 years of experience building consumer facing full-stack web applications.
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.
Experience setting up and maintaining Marketing Technologies such as Pixels, Ad Platforms, event systems, etc.
Experience designing, building, and running A/B Tests You will need to have a working knowledge of source control in general.
We specifically use Git along with GitHub.
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! 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.
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.
Building and/or maintaining a React Native application Improving Core Web Vitals and SEO Disclaimer Soundstripe is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.
Soundstripe provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics.
In addition to federal law requirements, Soundstripe complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment.
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