Backend Engineer

We are looking for a highly experienced Senior/Staff Backend Engineer to contribute to BandLab’s social features. This role requires strong technical expertise and ownership, focusing on Feed recommendations, Video creation, Artist suggestions, Profile Enhancements, and other key social experiences at scale.

You will brainstorm with product managers, designers, backend, and frontend engineers to conceptualize and build new features for our large and growing user base. Be ready to design, implement, and manage web services that impact millions of users. 

The role will help you grow in an environment passionate about knowledge-sharing and code review.

We are a diverse and distributed team, where some roles are tied to particular regions or time zones to ensure effective connection and collaboration during work hours. If you are considering this role as a remote opportunity outside of Singapore, please note that our standard working hours are 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM (local time) for everyone within the GMT+2 to GMT+9 time zones. Candidates based outside of this range will be expected to adjust their working hours to align with the team’s schedule.

Key Responsibilities

• End-to-end ownership of systems you build: estimating, designing, developing, code review, documentation, testing, deploying, monitoring, and performance optimization
• Maintain the infrastructure of high-load Social services (Feed, Chat, etc.) that serve millions of users
• Work with a large codebase written in .NET C#
• Collaborate with backend team members on design and implementation
• Communicate with other teams (product, mobile clients etc.) during the analysis and refinement phase
• Design and build APIs with unit, functional, and end-to-end tests
• Develop new and maintain the existing features
• Migrate features from monolith to microservices and also from one cloud to another. 
• Improve scalability and performance of the existing services

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Proficiency in at least one of .NET (C#/F#), Java, Node.js, Go
• Working experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
• Hands-on experience with serverless technologies and techniques
• Practical experience with IaC (e.g. Azure ARM, AWS CloudFormation, Pulumi)
• Practical experience with microservice architecture and high-load systems
• Understanding of software engineering best practices including unit testing, continuous integration, continuous deployment, and source control
• Commitment to high-quality and maintainable software

Nice-to-haves:

• Previous experience with building social networks and/or SaaS
• Hands on experience shipping production ready solutions leveraging AI tools 
• Understanding of CQRS and Event Sourcing

We are a diverse and distributed team, where some roles are tied to particular regions or time zones to ensure effective connection and collaboration during work hours. 

If you are considering this role as a remote opportunity outside of Singapore, please note that our standard working hours are 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM (local time) for everyone within the GMT+2 to GMT+9 time zones. Candidates based outside of this range will be expected to adjust their working hours to align with the team’s schedule.

Singapore HQ benefits:

• Healthcare, dental insurance
• Annual bonus
• Hybrid work arrangement
• Paid annual leave, sick leave, childcare leave, volunteer leave and maternity leave
• BandLab Technologies staff discount

Remote work benefits:

• Paid annual leave

About BandLab Technologies

BandLab Technologies is a company that designs and develops innovative tools and services for the next generation of music creators: global social music creation network BandLab, digital audio workstation Cakewalk, artist services platform ReverbNation and beat marketplace Airbit.

A division of Singapore-based Caldecott Music Group, which also owns Vista Musical Instruments and NME Networks, the company’s mission is to break down the technical, geographical and creative barriers for musicians and fans worldwide.

BandLab is the flagship product of BandLab Technologies, and a leading social music creation network with a global reach of over 100 million users and growing. Its cross-platform creative ecosystem offers everything from a next-generation digital audio workstation, to an advanced suite of creator tools and features, to niche artist services. BandLab empowers creators to make music and share their creative process with creators and fans on an unprecedented level.

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 company.