Backend Engineer (Remote or Singapore)

About BandLab

BandLab is a leading social music creation platform with a global reach of 40 million users and over 10 million songs being made every month. Through its best-in-class digital audio workstation (DAW) and audio hardware division, BandLab empowers creators to make music and share their creative process with musicians and fans on an unprecedented level. With something as simple as a mobile phone, people have gone from strumming guitars in their bedroom, spitting rhymes in the car, or singing in the shower — to creating amazing studio-quality tracks with people from all over the world.

The BandLab product family also includes BandLab for Education, an award-winning music creation platform with classroom management tools, and Cakewalk by BandLab, a professional-level digital recording studio for career musicians and producers. In November 2021 BandLab has completed the acquisition of a Music Tech company ReverbNation.

This is an opportunity to be part of an expanding Music Tech company at a growth stage and work with some of the smartest people in the industry. It is an incredibly unique place to learn a wide range of skills and address the real-world complexity of building a product that spans many countries and cultures.

Position

You will be part of a highly motivated, communicative, and productive backend team. This position implies that you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing the backend services that stand behind our social network and music creation features. Your work will impact millions of our users so what you build must be scalable and highly performant. You will grow in an environment passionate about knowledge-sharing and code review; experience a development culture that uses the state of the art technologies. It doesn’t matter what’s your “level” you think - you will be able to learn many things along with us.

Responsibilities:

• End-to-end ownership of systems you build: estimating, designing, developing, code review, performance optimization, documentation, testing, and monitoring
• Collaborate with team members on design and implementation
• Communicate with other teams during the analysis and development phase
• Design and build APIs
• Develop and ship cloud native applications
• Design and deploy cloud infrastructure
• Write unit, functional and end-to-end tests
• Write understandable, testable, and maintainable code
• Develop new and maintain the existing features
• Improve scalability and performance of the existing services
• Work with a large codebase written in .NET C# and Node.js JavaScript

Your qualification

• At least 2 years of software engineering experience
• Proficiency in at least one of .NET (C#/F#), Node.js, Go
• Working experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
• Understanding of RESTful web services, SOA, and microservices architecture
• Understanding of software engineering best practices including unit testing, continuous integration, continuous deployment, and source control
• Commitment to high-quality and maintainable software

Will be a plus

• Hands-on experience with serverless technologies and techniques
• Experience working in high-load client/server application development
• Practical experience with IaC (e.g. Azure ARM, AWS CF, Pulumi)
• Understanding of CQRS and Event Sourcing

What we offer

Relocation sponsorship to Singapore at will (if/when the COVID-19 regulations allow).

Additional details

What to expect from the technical interview:

What we won’t ask:

• Red-black trees
• How computers work
• Spaces or tabs
• How many golf balls can fit in a school bus
• Deep knowledge of .NET, Go, or Node.js

What we would like to talk about:

• Your background and what you’re passionate about
• How you design your applications or infrastructure
• Basic things about networking and protocols
• What is important for you in the development workflow