Sr. Software Engineer, Web

Who We Are

UnitedMasters is building a marketplace that connects artists, brands and fans - empowering artists to earn and grow. UnitedMasters has taken the bold step of building a music distribution service that, radically, puts artists first - disrupting the legacy music business by letting up-and-coming artists distribute their music directly to fans through streaming services while maintaining ownership of their master recording rights and up to 100% of royalties. Through the combination of UnitedMasters’ music distribution platform and its deep ties to brands, UnitedMasters enables independent artists and change-makers to grow and earn unlike any other platform.

The UnitedMasters team is made up of musicians, marketers, engineers, and storytellers with backgrounds from YouTube, SoundCloud, Pandora, Facebook, Uber, Dropbox, Complex, VICE, and more. We work hand in hand with the award-winning creative teams that forge those innovative partnerships at Translation (our in-house creative advertising agency).

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join UnitedMasters! Please note that this is a Hybrid role: two days in the office and three days remote.

What You'll Do

We are looking for an experienced Web developer to join our growing team. You will be responsible for application development and architecture.

This role will work with Web technologies including React, Redux, Webpack, Next.js, and TypeScript, as well as GraphQL, creating and expanding our Web applications.

• Brainstorm with Product Managers, Designers, Backend, and Frontend Engineers on your team to conceptualize and build new features for our growing user base of artists.
• Produce high-quality results by spearheading team projects that have a significant impact on the business.
• Actively own team features or systems and define their long-term health, while also improving the health of surrounding systems.
• Work with other engineers, write and review RFCs, and deeply review code.
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
• Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging.
• Write clean code to develop functional and maintainable applications.
• Communicate openly and often, using tools such as Slack, Zoom, Jira, and Figma.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• You can contribute to technical architecture discussions and help drive technical choices within your team.
• You can work remotely and use conference and collaboration tools effectively.
• You write understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability.
• You are a strong communicator. Explaining involved technical concepts to designers, support, and other engineers is no problem for you.
• You are a good problem solver. You consistently find practical and efficient solutions to both technical and non-technical obstacles.
• You possess strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, programming languages, distributed systems, and information retrieval.
• You have great ideas, and can move forward with them to produce great results.  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• At least 4 years experience working as a Web engineer in an agile team
• You have developed Web apps that communicate with Restful APIs, use local storage, network data synchronization, and user authentication.
• You enjoy working with Web technologies and have a successful track record of developing large Web applications.
• You have experience developing, shipping, and maintaining a full-featured React or Next.js app for Web.                                                        

Preferred Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, or relevant education/experience. 
• Experience working with audio/video file management, authentication, animation, graphs & charts, and payments.
• Excellent verbal and written English communication.
• Expertise in related concepts like web services, SOA, RPC (GraphQL, REST, gRPC, Thrift) and API design.
• Good knowledge of common algorithms, data structures, and design patterns.
• Can take ambiguous requirements in composite domains and distill them down into actionable tasks.
• Experience with programming multiple languages like Java, .Net, Ruby, PHP, and Python.
• Good database knowledge with experience in both SQL and NoSQL databases.

 

About UnitedMasters, Inc.

UnitedMasters Inc. represents the creative solutions company, Translation, and the