[Job Description]
We are looking for a full stack software engineer to lead all technical aspects of our product development. You will be entrusted with both our back-end and front-end.
[Tasks]
Planning, design, development, and maintenance of main services
Discuss with other engineers the suitability of technical choices and contribute to the correct technical growth of the organization and individuals
Make architectural choices to guarantee the long term proper functioning of our system
Code review, testing
Define specifications: collaborate with PdM and designers, user interviews, etc
Management of the development team: contribute to the career growth of each team member, identify bottlenecks and find solutions to ensure smooth operations as a team
[Why this is a great job]
Have the chance to be involved in the 0 → 1 phase of a product
Lead engineer position in a team that will grow in the near future
Cutting-edge product development you can only find in a startup: Lean development, Holacracy (to be introduced when the team grows larger), OKR, Agile development, Data-driven
Able to freely propose and discuss improvements not only in the engineering area, but also in the company-wide and organizational areas.
[Why we’re hiring]
The AI engine and web app have come to answer the users needs, and growth is accelerating. However, we are one step away from product-market fit, where we will be able to completely meet the needs and achieve exponential growth. We are strengthening our development team to take the product to that next stage.
[Technical Skills]
Required
5+ years of experience with Ruby on Rails
2+ years of experience with Javascript development using a library such as React, Vue, or Angular
2+ years of experience as a lead engineer
Strong knowledge of Heroku/Heroku CLI, Git/Github
Bonus points
Experience with PostgreSQL, MongoDB
Experience with Amazon s3/elastic beanstalk
Experience in an early stage start-up
Human skills
Required
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Experience leading a development team
Experience in leading a development team is required, such as summarizing specifications, breaking down and assigning tasks, etc., as you will be leading another engineer. -
User-centered development
One of the company’s values is “overwhelmingly user-centered”. The company is almost obsessive about the UI and UX of its products. Being able to conceptualize and implement new features keeping user behavior and user journey in mind is essential. -
Communication skills
There are many situations where communication is necessary, such as proactively participating in development specification reviews and reporting on the development team’s operational status and any problems that may arise.
Bonus points
- Music lover
- Prefer a casual work style
- Can speak Japanese
[Conditions]
- Full-time employee
- Annual salary 7-9M yen + substantial stock options
[How to apply]
Email us at tao@soundraw.co.jp!
I can set up a casual coffee meeting and share more details, introduce you to the team members, etc :)
About Soundraw
[What we do]
SOUNDRAW is a music composition service for video creators.
Simply specify the genre, the song length and the instruments you want, and the AI will generate music for you based on your needs.
You can then choose a song you like from the generated music and customize it further: move the hook (or “high point”) of a song, change the tempo, or change the intensity of a bar to make the music fit your video perfectly.
[Why we do it]
SOUNDRAW wants to democratize music composition and bring about a world where anyone can create music, even without music skills.
As the number of creators grows rapidly each year, the need for content creation tools is becoming more and more critical. Traditionally, a creator would make a video and then search for a song matching their video on a royalty-free music site such as Artlist or Epidemic Sound. This is not only a very inefficient method, as it can take hours, sometimes days, to find the right song, but it will never yield perfect results - the song will never perfectly match your video, so you will need to make adjustments and sometimes even compromises to your original video.
With SOUNDRAW, on the other hand, you can get the right song in a matter of minutes.
SOUNDRAW is causing a paradigm shift: from "searching" music to "creating" music.
[How we do it]
Work is basically full remote, but we believe offline time together is essential to keep happy and motivated, so we get together regularly: a team retreat once every few months, a weekly happy hour at WeWork, a monthly all-hands meeting, etc. We try to create a high level of camaraderie even when we are fully remote.
Although we are an early stage startup with only a few people, we have already expanded into the global market. More than 40% of our users are non Japanese, so our product is created in both Japanese and English.
We value diversity and strive to maintain a 50/50 male/female ratio. The COO is Spanish.
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