Looking for Full time Backend Developer @ Songspace Nashville TN or Remote

[Christopher Igoe]

Hey everybody,

We are looking for a backend PHP developer to add to our growing team. Our company is based out of Nashville TN but most of the developers work remotely, so remote is fine as well. Full details are below:

About Songspace

We're looking for talented and highly motivated software engineers to help make the music business more efficient and transparent for artists and music teams.  

Songspace is building content and data management tools to power the next phase of the music industry. One part creative app for songwriters & artists (think Evernote) and one part content management system / API for labels and publishers, we utilize the creative process to aggregate assets and data (recordings, lyrics, and copyright ownership details, and music metadata) for artists and music teams.

Songspace is used by top music teams and artists across the globe, including Lava Records and Publishing, Big Deal Music (St. Vincent, John Ryan, The Afghan Whigs), Dualtone Records (The Lumineers, Delta Spirit, Shakey Graves), mtheory (Diplo, Skrillex, fun.), Two Chord GA Music (Dallas Davidson), and many more.

We leverage feedback to improve existing features, build further product and improve user experience.

Responsibilities

1. Ensure that data and code quality complies with industry best practices

2. Improve client onboarding workflow which involves consuming client provided data

3. Iterate on an existing API to facilitate data exchange with external vendors and clients

Personal Requirements

1. Acute attention to detail

2. Excellent written and oral communication skills

3. Ability to prioritize and execute on personal and team set goals

4. Ability to communicate ideas in both technical and user friendly language

5. Experience working in a distributed team environment

6. Experience working in an Agile SCRUM development team

7. Expert English speaking and writing skills

Technical Requirements

1. 3-5 years of PHP framework experience Zend/SF2/Laravel

2. 3-5 years of relational database experience

3. Ability to profile and optimize code

4. Experience using an ORM

5. Experience with GIT

Nice to Have

1. Experience with Symfony 2 framework

2. Experience using Vagrant

3. A passion for music :)

If you are interested in learning more feel free to shoot me an email.

Chris

Christopher Igoe

Songspace, INC

Director of Engineering and Product

ch...@songspace.com