Android Developer / Audio Creation Tools

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

We are looking for a strong middle/senior level Android developer who has experience developing native Android applications with Android SDK. We use cutting-edge technologies and are constantly searching for the best approaches to build our Android application. If you are passionate about Android development and ready to grow fast as a developer you will fit perfectly within our team.

Responsibilities

You will work on the development of our musical editor (Digital Audio Workstation, DAW) which is an application inside of the application with a ton of custom rendering and a native audio engine as a backend. This includes the creation of UI for the editor and work with the native audio engine using JNI and integration with our server API.

Your qualification

• Good knowledge of Android Framework
• Experience with complex layouts, animations
• You know how to create the architecture of a new feature and work independently on it
• Good understanding of multithreading, asynchronous programming, disc, and network IOs
• You worked with custom views and rendering
• We do not require knowledge of particular technologies but experience with Kotlin, Dagger, RxJava/Coroutines, SQL would be helpful
• Optional, but would be a big plus: You are familiar with music creation, audio recording, processing, sound design or have knowledge of music-making tools
• Experience in native development is not necessary but is nice to have
• You don’t need to be an expert in DSP but being acquainted with the music-making field would be a plus

What we offer

• International team, located in the heart of sunny and cosmopolitan Singapore
• Relocation sponsorship or Remote work
• Healthcare program
• Modern work environment
• The opportunity to attend or present to global conferences and meetups (after the pandemic ends)
• Free transportation for late workers
• Staff discounts at Swee Lee stores and Music Academy