Senior Backend Developer

Headquartered in Singapore, BandLab Technologies is a collective of global music brands with a vision to connect the world of music. BandLab is the flagship digital product in BandLab Technologies, and a leading social music creation platform with a global reach of over 60+ million users. Through its best-in-class digital audio workstation (DAW) BandLab empowers creators to make music and share their creative process with musicians and fans on an unprecedented level.

About the position

You will be part of a highly motivated, communicative, and productive backend team. This position implies that you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing the backend services that stand behind our social network and music creation features. Your work will impact millions of our users so what you build must be scalable and highly performant. You will grow in an environment passionate about knowledge-sharing and code review; experience a development culture that uses the state of the art technologies.

Responsibilities

• Software development based on high-level requirements: estimating, designing, developing, code review, performance optimization, documentation, monitoring, bug fixing
• Communicate with other teams during the analysis and development stages
• Collaborate with the backend team members on the design and implementation stages
• Prepare infrastructure and deployment plans to bring features alive
• Develop and ship cloud native applications
• Design and deploy cloud infrastructure
• Write unit, functional and end-to-end tests
• Write understandable, testable, and maintainable code
• Develop new and maintain the existing features
• Improve scalability and performance of the existing services
• Work with a large codebase written in .NET C#, Node.js JS/TS, Go
• Come up with strategic ideas on how we can improve our infrastructure and workflows

Requirements

• At least 5 years of software engineering experience
• Strong knowledge of .NET, Node.js, or Go
• Proficiency in building APIs: REST, gRPC, WebSockets
• Practical experience in leveraging the microservice architecture along with CQRS architectural pattern
• Hands-on experience with DynamoDB/CosmosDB/Firestore
• Experience in building infrastructure in a cloud environment via IaC
• Experience working in high-load client/server application development
• Willingness to explore, investigate and integrate new technologies
• Being tech stack agnostic
• Understanding of software engineering best practices including unit testing, continuous integration, continuous deployment, and source control
• Ability to work in a disciplined Agile environment with a commitment to appropriate engineering practices and regular delivery cycles

What to expect from the technical interview

What we won’t ask:

• Red-black trees
• How computers work
• Spaces or tabs
• How many golf balls can fit in a school bus
• Deep knowledge of .NET, Go, or Node.js

What we would like to talk about:

• Your background and what you’re passionate about
• How you design your applications or infrastructure
• Basic things about networking and protocols
• What is important for you in the development workflow

Benefits

Remote working options or relocation sponsorship to sunny and cosmopolitan Singapore.

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 organisation.

We thank all applicants for their interest! Please note that only those candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.