Senior Software Engineer II

Summary

Join Splice, a creative platform for music makers, as a Senior Software Engineer II and help define the architecture and drive implementation changes across multiple backend services. You will translate large-scale architectural changes into manageable outcomes, providing ongoing customer benefits. You will work on multiple levels, from defining high-level system architecture to direct API implementation. Advocate for designs that prioritize ease of use and drive solutions that are technically and organizationally scalable. This remote US-based role requires experience with Go and Python, SaaS and cloud providers, payment systems, and RDBMS. You will be responsible for delivering complex projects, identifying areas for improvement, and mentoring team members.

Requirements

• 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 of 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 to 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

Responsibilities

• 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 on 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

Preferred 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

Benefits

• The national pay range for this role is $176,000 - $220,000
• Individual compensation will be commensurate with the candidate's experience
• Splice is an Equal Opportunity Employer
• Splice provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws