Backend Engineer, Social Team

**Description**:
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 considering this role as a remote opportunity outside of Singapore, please note that we operate within the GMT+2 to GMT+9 time zones. If you’re based outside of this range, you’ll need to adjust your schedule to align with the team’s working hours._

**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)

**Skills, Knowledge and Expertise**:

- Previous experience with building social networks and/or SaaS
- Proficiency in at least one of.NET (C#/F#), Java, Node.js, Go
- Working experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
- Practical experience with microservice architecture and high-load systems
- Understanding of software engineering best practices including unit testing, continuous integration, continuous deployment, and source control
- Commitment to high-quality and maintainable software
- Nice-to-haves:_
- 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

**Location and Benefits**:
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 considering this role as a remote opportunity outside of Singapore, please note that we operate within the **GMT+2 to GMT+9** time zones. If you’re based outside of this range, you’ll need to adjust your schedule to align with the team’s working hours.

Singapore HQ benefits:

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

Remote work benefits:

- Paid annual leave

**About BandLab Technologies**:
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, 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.

Diversity and Inclusion:
BandLab Technologies commits to fostering diversity and inclusion in all that we do. Regardless of race, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion or any other status protected by law, we offer applicants the equal opportunity to join, belong and flourish in our company.