Backend Technical Lead

**About BeatStars**

Since 2008, BeatStars has been the pioneering and go-to online music marketplace to connect millions of recording artists and music producers worldwide. BeatStars is also the leading artist discovery tool for all the major and independent labels. Most recently, BeatStars partnered with Sony Publishing to launch its publishing arm on the platform.

Now, with over 3 million monthly active users, we've paid over $400M to our creator community. We continue to support independent musicians with the tools, community, opportunities, and education they need to earn a living doing what they love.

**What You'll Be Doing**

**Responsibilities**:

- Lead the design and implementation of scalable, high-performance backend systems
- Develop and maintain robust, efficient, and scalable backend solutions
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement technical strategies
- Conduct code reviews and ensure high-quality software development practices
- Optimize system performance, reliability, and scalability
- Drive continuous improvement of development processes and technical infrastructure
- Participate in solution design, technical planning, and system architecture discussions
- Partner with stakeholders & QA to ensure product requirements are met and we're always delivering value to customers.

**What You'll Need**:
**Technical Qualifications**:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
- 6+ years of relevant software engineering experience
- Advanced skills in:
- Java 8+ and SpringBoot ecosystem
- Docker and containerization technologies
- Microservices architecture within the AWS environment
- Serverless technologies (Lambda, Fargate)
- Asynchronous workflow design

**Database and Data Technologies**:

- Extensive experience with:
- DynamoDB
- MySQL
- Redis
- ElasticSearch

**Cloud and Infrastructure**:

- Comprehensive knowledge of AWS services:

- Experience with build and release processes using:
- Git
- Jira
- Jenkins
- GitHub Actions
- Strong understanding of distributed systems design
- Ability to create scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure

**Additional Preferred Skills**:

- Experience with GoLang
- Proficiency in GraphQL
- Ability to mentor and develop junior engineers

**Benefits**

We're a small and growing team working together closely and operating with complete autonomy and freedom. This means you will have a direct impact on any project that you work on, and your success will be felt across the company. Some other perks include:

- International employees are provided with statutory benefits and time off policies in accordance with their country. Deel will be the employer of record
- Flexible work hours
- $70/month tech reimbursement
- $30/month Wellness Program through JOON
- Company Observed Self-Care Days (4x per year)
- Virtual social events and a sense of community (even online)
- Global Recognition and Anniversary Program
- Plenty of opportunities while we grow and scale in a global environment
- Access to On-Demand Learning Platform

**Compensation**:
Salary/OTE is just one component of our total rewards package. All regular employees are also eligible for additional benefits and perks that BeatStars has to offer.

Preferred locations to hire are in the Germany. This is a Germany-based role only. No other locations will be considered at this time. The remote salary range for this role is as follows:

- Germany - 84k-125k EUR

BeatStars is a globally distributed team. To support collaboration across regions, we operate with core working hours designed to ensure meaningful overlap across teams:
Core Working Hours by Location:

- PT (US): 7:00 AM - 11:00 AM
- CT (US): 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
- ET (US): 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
- GMT+1 (UK & Portugal): 3:00 PM - 7:00 PM
- GMT-3 (Brazil): 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
- GMT+2 (South Africa & Germany): 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM

We aim to maintain flexibility while ensuring all team members can collaborate during key hours. Outside of these windows, we encourage autonomy and asynchronous work.

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