ABOUT MUSIXMATCH:
Musixmatch is the leading music metadata company, featuring the world’s largest lyrics catalog and +70M user contributors. Musixmatch is the trusted global partner of companies like Spotify, Apple, Amazon Music, Meta, Google, MTV, Shazam, Vevo and has a partnership with +100,000 music publishers including Sony/ Music Publishing, Universal Music Publishing, Warner/Chappell, Kobalt, BMG Rights, and the Harry Fox Agency.
We are a bunch of creatives who care about our work and what we do. We believe that participation and collaboration are key to getting things done well. We are looking for tech-savvy people who are eager to learn in a fast-paced environment, who have an international outlook on life, and who love taking on new challenges.
Position:
We are looking for a Full Stack JavaScript Engineer to join and help us develop and maintain our Product Platform at Musixmatch. Product Platform is a central point of contact for both our backend services and our frontend applications. At the core we build a reusable and extensible ecosystem, which enables the wider Product Development Team to carry out faster deliveries. Your work will have a big impact on our engineers, clients and users.
What you will do:
Build and improve our full stack systems that powers our services and applications with a focus on backend.
Design, develop and deploy new features, and APIs with high availability, low latency and scalability in mind.
Build and operate infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
Collaborate closely with other engineers and become a point of reference within an autonomous, multi functional team.
Push to continuously improve our engineering practices and experience.
Requirements:
You are proficient in JavaScript and have solid knowledge of backend development in Node.js. You also have experience with UX and React.
You understand the main architectural patterns, styles and models to build robust APIs, such as REST, microservices and serverless computing.
You are experienced working with modern infrastructure and tools, and you are interested in keeping up with current best practices.
You are comfortable running your software in CI/CD environments.
You are familiar with Linux/Unix shell scripting.
You are proactive and you are willing to take initiative and to give direction to the team.
You are pragmatic and understand that speed is often as important as quality when getting things done in a fast-paced environment.
You are hard-working and willing to get your hands dirty. No matter what, you always strive to get the job done also by stepping out of your work remit if needed.
You are fluent in English.
Nice to have:
Familiarity with AWS services, such as DynamoDB and S3.
Experience with Couchbase.
Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
Experience with TypeScript and GraphQL.
Experience with React Native (on web).