Back End Engineer

Job Description

A little bit about our team:

ADA is the independent distribution and label services arm of Warner Music Group, breaking brand new artists and supporting industry legends. We bring the full passion and power of our people to every engagement, magnifying artists' impact and helping them build the career of their dreams.

ADA's Product & Integration group is responsible for the technology that services our global community of independent artists and labels. We build tools that our partners use to operate and grow their careers and businesses. Our platform ensures that creative content is set up to industry and artistic standards and distributed out to the market accurately and on time. We must constantly innovate to keep up with the music industry and provide opportunities, revenue, and valuable tools and services to the indie community.

Your role:

This role is a unique opportunity to join ADA as one of the company's first engineers, reporting to the head of the Product & Integration group. You will execute on the ADA product vision and roadmap, helping to build our team and establish our engineering culture along the way. You will also collaborate with engineers on WMG's Global Technolgy team to ensure alignment on product strategy, architecture, design, and development between ADA and WMG. You will get to deliver consistent, high-quality products that are adopted by dispersed global teams while making a big impact on our emergent tech team through shaping of best practices, developing reusable assets, and creating new products and processes that help ADA deliver superior offerings to our partners.

Here you'll get to:
• Be a founding member of ADA's Tech team and help build our engineering culture and processes
• Be responsible for delivering a best-in-class distribution product and carry out the backend architecture and engineering vision for ADA and our DIY product, Level
• Shape ADA's engineering practices while partnering with WMG's Global Tech engineers on mission-critical projects and integrations
• Design and build workflows to transform the entire organization into a product- and tech-minded team
• Maintain documentation for all of ADA's backend components and API endpoints
• Ship high-quality code daily, innovating on hard-to-solve problems of the music industry
• Evaluate product challenges and work with stakeholders to arrive at the best-fit solution
• Support recruiting and onboarding of new engineers

About you:
• You have 5+ years of professional experience building a consumer or b2b enterprise tech product
• You have experience working with distributed systems (e.g., Cloud, Cloud-native, Containers, Streaming/Event-based, Data and Analytics)
• You have experience with Node.JS, SQL, CSS / HTML / Javascript, PHP, Python, AngularJS, Java, Github, Kubernetes, Model-View-Controller patterns, Postgres, React, Snowflake, AWS Lambdas
• You are comfortable building and designing APIs that take into consideration security and scale
• You are knowledgeable about DevOps practices and frameworks such as Github, AWS Code Deploy/Build/Pipeline, Serverless Framework, etc.
• You can be scrappy and innovative when working with tight timelines, but you also advocate for long-term code quality
• You enjoy mentoring and building collaborative coding environments
• You have a passion for independent music and helping artists at all stages of their careers

Salary Range
$110,000 to $170,000 Annually

Job Posting Ranges are included for all California, Colorado, New York, and Washington job postings and 100% remote roles where talent can be located in CA, CO, NYC and WA. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as work experience and business needs. The pay range is subject to change at any time dependent on a variety of internal and external factors.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-dyb5kq-18-119-107-96-42 in your application.