BandLab Hiring For Senior Backend Engineer, Social Team at Singapore  or  🌎  Remote Full Time

About BandLab

BandLab Technologies is a company that designs and develops innovative tools and services for the next generation of music creators: global social music creation network BandLab, digital audio workstation Cakewalk, artist services platform ReverbNation and beat marketplace Airbit.

A division of Singapore-based Caldecott Music Group (CMG), which also owns Vista Musical Instruments and NME Networks, the company’s mission is to break down the technical, geographical and creative barriers for musicians and fans worldwide.

BandLab is the flagship product of BandLab Technologies, and a leading social music creation network with a global reach of over 100 million users and growing. Its cross-platform creative ecosystem offers everything from a next-generation digital audio workstation, to an advanced suite of creator tools and features, to niche artist services. BandLab empowers creators to make music and share their creative process with creators and fans on an unprecedented level.

The BandLab product family also includes BandLab for Education, an award-winning music creation platform with classroom management tools.

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.

Join us in realizing our vision: A future where there are no boundaries to making and sharing music.

Position

We are looking for a backend developer who will be focusing on BandLab social features such as Feed, Notifications, Chat, Sharing, Live streaming, and Comments. You will be part of a high-performing and highly motivated backend team. You’re going to brainstorm with product managers, designers, backend, and frontend engineers to conceptualize and build new features for our large and growing user base. Be ready to design, implement, and manage web services that impact millions of users. The role will help you grow in an environment passionate about knowledge-sharing and code review.
We are a diverse and distributed team, where some roles are tied to particular regions or time zones to ensure effective connection and collaboration during work hours. If you’re looking for a remote work option from outside of Singapore, for this role, we operate within the GMT+2 to GMT+9 time zones.

Key Responsibilities

• End-to-end ownership of systems you build: estimating, designing, developing, code review, documentation, testing, deploying, monitoring, and performance optimization
• Collaborate with team members on design and implementation
• Communicate with other teams during the analysis and development phase
• Design and build APIs
• Write unit, functional, and end-to-end tests
• Develop new and maintain the existing features
• Maintain the infrastructure of high-load Social services (Feed, Chat, etc.) that serves millions of users
• Work with a large codebase written in .NET C#
• Improve scalability and performance of the existing services
• Optimize the costs of the existing cloud infrastructure (Azure and AWS)

Your qualification

• Previous experience with building social networks and/or SaaS
• Proficiency in at least one of .NET (C#/F#), Java, Node.js, Go
• Hands-on experience building highly scalable distributed systems with microservice architecture
• Working experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
• Experience working with cloud services (AWS/Azure) and cloud-native applications
• 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
• Practical experience with IaC (e.g. Azure ARM, AWS CloudFormation, Pulumi)
• Understanding of CQRS and Event Sourcing

What we offer

Singapore HQ benefits:

• Healthcare, dental insurance
• Quarterly bonus
• Paid annual leave, sick leave, childcare leave, volunteer leave and maternity leave
• BandLab Technologies staff discount

Remote work benefits:

• Paid annual leave

Additional details

Location
We are a diverse and distributed team, where some roles are tied to particular regions or time zones to ensure effective connection and collaboration during work hours.

If you’re looking for a remote work option from outside of Singapore, for this role, we operate within the GMT+2 to GMT+9 time zones.