Senior Software Engineer II

JOB TITLE: Senior Software Engineer II LOCATION: Remote - US

THE ROLE: 

You will help define the architecture and drive implementation changes across multiple backend services that power Splice’s next generation products. You will translate those large-scale architectural changes into manageable, incremental outcomes that provide ongoing customer benefits. You will operate on multiple levels, from defining and socializing high-level system architecture to direct API implementation and instrumentation. You will advocate for system designs and APIs that make “The right thing, the easy thing.” You will drive solutions that are both technically and organizationally scalable. 

As a software engineer at this level:

• You include customer experience when discussing engineering solutions and tradeoffs

• You investigate and provide clarifying guidance for areas of significant uncertainty

• You own delivering complex projects that span multiple domains and teams

• You identify areas for team- and organization-wide improvement and propose solutions

• You regularly seek mechanisms to ensure that deliverables meet or exceed quality standards

• You provide mentorship and give candid and respectful feedback for how to improve our engineering practices

• You help manage cross-team commitments, track their progress and relate that to the overall delivery roadmap in order to help prioritize the team’s work

• You are flexible and readily adapt to change

• You enjoy looking for personal growth opportunities and are continuously looking for ways to improve

Qualifications:

• You have relevant work experience building and evolving production software using Go and Python

• You have experience leveraging SaaS and cloud provider primitives to their fullest potential

• You have worked with payment systems such as Stripe or Recurly and understand how to leverage their capabilities

• You work backwards from the customer experience

• You have several years working with RDBMS such as MySQL or PostgreSQL and crafting performant SQL queries

• You share our vision to enable artist creativity and continue our path becoming the most iconic music company in the world

• You are comfortable having build-versus-buy tradeoff conversations

• You’re self-directed towards generating excellent work outcomes

• You ensure shared understanding about the definition of done

• You have a bias towards action and experimentation

• You are focused on quality over quantity

• You are comfortable, or even prefer working across technical stacks

• You are outcome-focused and consider how we will know whether our deliverables meet customer expectations

• You communicate clearly and effectively with technical and non-technical audiences

• You are comfortable writing, deploying, evolving, and deleting code

Our Tech Stack

• Go, Python, TypeScript/NodeJS, GraphQL, Docker, MySQL, ElasticSearch, Redis

• NX, Jenkins, CodeBuild, Github Actions, Datadog

• Terraform, AWS, ECS Fargate, Lambda

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience with Twirp/gRPC

• Experience with protobuf compatibility guarantees

• Experience with a strongly typed language (eg: Rust, C++, Scala, Java, C#)

• Experience working with multiple Identity Providers and different permissions models 

• Experience working with Data Engineering 

• Deep knowledge of ElasticSearch and search/indexing technologies

• Mention Grace Hopper in your application

The national pay range for this role is $175,000 - $187,500. Individual compensation will be commensurate with the candidate's experience.