Software Engineer, Web at UnitedMasters | Translation

Who We Are

UnitedMasters is building a marketplace that connects artists, brands and fans - empowering artists to earn and grow. UnitedMasters has taken the bold step of building a music distribution service that, radically, puts artists first - disrupting the legacy music business by letting up-and-coming artists distribute their music directly to fans through streaming services while maintaining ownership of their master recording rights and up to 100% of royalties. Through the combination of UnitedMasters’ music distribution platform and its deep ties to brands, UnitedMasters enables independent artists and change-makers to grow and earn unlike any other platform.

The UnitedMasters team is made up of musicians, marketers, engineers, and storytellers with backgrounds from YouTube, SoundCloud, Pandora, Facebook, Uber, Dropbox, Complex, VICE, and more. We work hand in hand with the award-winning creative teams that forge those innovative partnerships at Translation (our in-house creative advertising agency).

We are looking for a Software Engineer, Web to join UnitedMasters! Please note that this is a Hybrid role: two days in the office and three days remote. 

What You'll Do

We are looking for an experienced Web developer to join our growing team. You will be responsible for application development and architecture.

This role will work with Web technologies including React, Redux, Webpack, Next.js, and TypeScript, as well as GraphQL, creating and expanding our Web applications.

• Brainstorm with Product Managers, Designers, Backend, and Frontend Engineers on your team to conceptualize and build new features for our growing user base of artists.
• Produce high-quality results by contributing heavily to team projects that have a significant impact on the business.
• Actively own team features or systems and define their long-term health, while also improving the health of surrounding systems.
• Work with other engineers and deeply review code.
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
• Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging.
• Write clean code to develop functional and maintainable applications.
• Communicate openly and often, using tools such as Slack, Zoom, Jira, and Figma.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• You can contribute to technical architecture discussions and help drive technical decisions within your team.
• You can work remotely and use conference and collaboration tools effectively.
• You write understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability.
• You are a strong communicator. Explaining complex technical concepts to designers, support, and other engineers is no problem for you.
• You are a good problem solver. You consistently find practical and efficient solutions to both technical and non-technical challenges.
• You possess strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, programming languages, distributed systems, and information retrieval.
• You have great ideas, and can run with them to produce great results.

Minimum Qualifications

• At least 2 years experience working as a Web engineer in an agile team
• You have developed Web apps that communicate with Restful APIs, use local storage, network data synchronization, and user authentication.
• You enjoy working with Web technologies and have a successful track record of developing Web applications.
• You have experience developing, shipping, and maintaining a React or Next.js app for Web.                        

Preferred Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, or relevant education/experience. 
• Experience working with audio/video file management, authentication, animation, graphs & charts, and payments.
• Excellent verbal and written English communication.
• Expertise in related concepts like web services, SOA, RPC (GraphQL, REST, gRPC, Thrift) and API design.
• Good knowledge of common algorithms, data structures, and design patterns.
• Can take ambiguous requirements in complex domains and distill them down into actionable tasks.
• Experience with programming multiple languages like Java, .Net, Ruby, PHP, and Python.
• Good database knowledge with experience in both SQL and NoSQL databases.

About UnitedMasters, Inc.

UnitedMasters Inc. represents the creative solutions company, Translation, and the leading software and services platform for independent creators, UnitedMasters. UnitedMasters enables ownership, exposure, and new paths for financial return for independent creators, while Translation helps brands leverage the power of contemporary culture to achieve transformational growth. Combined, UnitedMasters, Inc. is the world’s leading marketplace for cultural capital, connecting independent artists and brands to realize a future in which all creators own their future. Backed by Alphabet, Andreessen Horowitz, and Apple, UnitedMasters, Inc. is reimagining how brands and artists come together to tell their stories, build profitable growth, and push culture forward.

Salary Hiring Range: $165,000 - $195,000

Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our size and industry, and are one part of many compensation, benefits and other reward opportunities we provide (e.g. bonus, stock options, 401(k) match, etc.)

Individual pay rate decisions are based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company.  We expect the majority of the candidates who are offered roles at our company to fall healthily throughout the range based on these factors. 

The range above is for the expectations as laid out in the job description, however we are often open to a wide variety of profiles, and recognize that the person we hire may be less experienced (or more senior) than this job description as posted.  If that ends up being the case, the updated salary range will be communicated with you as a candidate.

The salary range above is for the NY/CA.  As a company, we have a location based strategy, which means the salary range could be lower or higher than this if the role is hired in another location.

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