Software Engineer

Job Description

The Orchard is looking for a Software Engineer to join our Platform team.

What You'll Do
• Work with a cross-functional team to build products that empower artists and record labels across the globe
• Contribute to all tiers of our architecture to produce high quality, robust user experiences
• Write clean, tested, maintainable code
• Work closely with product management to understand client requirements
• Design, communicate and execute a vision in collaboration with your team and other teams across the technology organization
• Participate in re-architecture, refinement and technical design of various systems
• Mentor more junior engineers and contribute to a culture of continuous learning

Who You Are
• Experience architecting and leading implementation of complex systems
• Experience with a scripting language (we use Python and JavaScript)
• Experience building complex frontend applications (we use Typescript, React, and GraphQL)
• Experience with various database technologies and query languages (we use Neo4j, Kafka, MySQL, Snowflake, Elasticsearch, and more)
• Familiar with low-latency techniques to help improve page load time and reliability
• Should be comfortable with microservices and communication over HTTP
• Comfortable with AWS Cloud technologies
• Experience writing unit and integration tests
• Experience working in an agile team

The Ideal Candidate
• Can mobilize teams around a vision and help lead execution of that vision
• Experience using log analysis to investigate bugs and performance issues
• Experience with data modeling and schema design of real world use cases
• Defines best practices and standards within the team and helps build tooling to make those easy to follow
• Proactive problem solving
• Experience optimizing tables, schemas and data structures
• Ability to determine sensible KPIs and optimize against them

What We Offer You
• An opportunity to influence music on a global stage
• A modern, diverse and creative work environment
• An investment in your learning & development

This position requires that the job candidate be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Please note that an applicant will be considered fully vaccinated two weeks after their second dose in a 2-dose vaccine series (Pfizer or Moderna), or two weeks after a single-dose vaccine (Johnson & Johnson's Janssen vaccine). The Company will consider requests for reasonable accommodations for documented medical reasons and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law. Please do not include proof of vaccine status or any indication of a possible request for an accommodation when submitting your application materials. If applicable, the Company will follow up with you directly to request proof of vaccination and to discuss any potential accommodations.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rvp4xj-18-222-184-162-42 in your application.